Rave Reviews for This Is Why We Live

Combining physical theater, live music and clown; two actors and a cellist bring to life the ironic and astonishing poetry of Nobel Prize winning poet, Wisława Szymborska. Performed in three languages with original musical score throughout, the play awakens us to the poetic state of wonder and a fragmented humanity with incredible insight, humor and precision.

Read What Audiences Are Saying:

“a highly successful experiment proving poetry’s ability to transcend cultural and linguistic boundaries—and even make the leap from page to stage"

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"Honest, Exploratory, Poignant"

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★ ★ ★ ★

“[ if you] long to be moved in a direction you didn’t know you could be moved to in a direction you didn’t know existed, then This is Why We Live may be the show for you."

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"This is Why We Live is a thematic bouquet which explores the worlds in which we live, both animate and inanimate."Read More

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La MaMa presents

This is Why We Live

US PREMIERE from CANADA

Created by Open Heart Surgery Theatre

Directed by Coleen MacPherson

through September 29, 2019

The Downstairs @ La MaMa

66 East 4th Street

New York, NY 10003

Thursdays to Saturdays at 8pm; Sundays at 5pm

Run Time: 70 Minutes

Presented in English, French and Polish

Tickets: $25 Adult; $20 Student/Senior [+$1 Facility Fee]

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

A Rave Review for GOLONDRINAS/SWALLOWS

Ann Firestone Ungar of Front Row Center LOVES Golondrinas/Swallows now playing at The First Floor Theater @ La MaMa.

"Direction by the playwright is exemplary, as is the completely fluid and accessible translation by Francine Jacome (and a poem translated by James Cascaito). Music by Fina Monc and Maria Eugenia Atilano adds much to the intense and melancholy atmosphere. 

Here is an opportunity to think. Take advantage of it. “Golondrinas” is well worth your time."

Read the full review HERE

La MaMa presents
GOLONDRINAS/
SWALLOWS
By SinTeaTro Intimus
Directed and written by Aminta de Lara

April 16th - 26th, 2015
Thursday, Friday and Saturday @ 7:30pm; Sunday @ 2pm

Tickets: $18 Adults; $13 Students/Seniors; ten $10 tickets are available for every performance - advance sales only, first come - first served

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Front Row Center on CEDARS

Constance Rodgers gives CEDARS 3-Stars in her review on Front Row Center, saying:

"I recommend seeing Cedars. I, for one, am glad these five actors and ten authors are walking in my world, and bringing their spirits’ so fully with them."

Read the full review HERE

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La MaMa presents

 

CEDARS

by Mirage Theatre Company

Now through February 1, 2015 - Final Week!

The First Floor Theatre @ La MaMa

74A East 4th Street

(Between Bowery and Second Avenue)

New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $18 Adults; $13 Students/Seniors; Ten tickets priced at $10 each are available, in advance only, for the first ten buyers - not available day of show.

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Front Row Center on Pagbabalik

George Crowley of Front Row Center gives Kinding Sindaw's Pagbabalik 5-STARS:

"LaMaMa is the most extraordinary place. Our country may have no Ministry of Culture (except, unofficially, for ITI and the NEA) and no ongoing governmental commitment to the arts, but we have and have, for some time, had LaMama, where international boundaries of culture and tradition vanish, where the late Ellen Stewart was historically able to bring all manner of extraordinarily financed and visa’d artists to these shores, beyond the pale of what we all knew to be commercial or even commercially viable. The tradition continues. The Kinding Sindaw Melayu Heritage group is an ongoing resident artist group at LaMaMa ETC, founded over 20 years ago by Artistic Director Potri Ranka Manis to assert and reclaim her indigenous culture and empower and educate Filipinos through the use of ancient art forms."

Read the full review: HERE