Reviews are in for PYLADE!

"Pylade is a one of a kind production, that shines because of its fearlessness and commitment."

- Jose Solis, Stage Buddy

"under Ivica Buljan’s fine direction and the company’s terrific performances—especially that of Marko Mandić in the lead role—it also makes for an intense and entertaining (if difficult to digest at times) evening of theater."

~ JK Clarke, Theater Pizzazz

"This production achieves this mixture of sacrilegious and transcendence through an alchemy of sound, movement, and acting...Marko Mandic is one of the bravest actors in the city."

~Aurin Squire, New York Theatre Review

"The clarity of the Greeks, the raw intellectuals of Pasolini, and the boldness of La MaMa make up for an invaluable spectacle in New York City."

~  Mateus Ciucci Ferreira, Theatre is Easy

“A grand display of dynamic staging combining dance, physical combat, and glorious tableaux!”

~  Darryl Reilly, TheaterScene.net

"Pylade is the tragedy of the hubris of the liberal elite and the nihilism of the disenfranchised — a tragedy our world is presently living through again as people across the globe increasingly turn to extremist ideology....we feel the full brunt of this tale of cyclical cataclysmic confrontation."

~Zachary Stewart, TheaterMania

La MaMa presents
PYLADE 
by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Director Ivica Buljan
English Translation Adam Paolozza and Coleen MacPherson
Assistant Director Arthur Adair 

Music Composer Michael Sirotta 
Additional Music Yukio Tsuji and Heather Paauwe 
Light Designer Mike Riggs 
Costume Designer Ana Savić Gecan
Company Coach George Drance 
Dramaturg Zishan Ugurlu 
Stage Manager Zulivet Diaz

Great Jones Repertory Company Performers Eugene the Poogene, Maura Donahue, Cary Gant, John Gutierrez, Valois Mickens, Tunde Sho, Chris Wild, Mia Yoo and Perry Yung
Special Guest Artist Marko Mandić 

Thursday December 17, 2015 at 7pm

Friday, December 18, 2015 at 7pm

The Ellen Stewart Theatre

66 East 4th Street

(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003 

Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors

For Tickets and info: CLICK HERE

Pasolini @ La MaMa

Although he is best known in the US as a filmmaker, Pier Paolo Pasolini, is known throughout Europe a leading intellectual, working not only in film but poetry, journalism, visual art, literature and theater. Pasolini wrote six plays, of which Pylede is one.

“The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.”
― Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pasolini often returned to classical texts: Medea, Oedipus Rex and the Oresteia, from which Pylade is derived. 

He was murdered, in 1975, by being run over multiple times with his own car and his body had been partially burned.  Although a male hustler was arrested and eventually confessed to the murder, other theories surrounding the murder exist.

"An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens his mouth, an artist is engaged, because opening his mouth is always scandalous." ―  Pier Paolo Pasolini

La MaMa presents
PYLADE
by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Directed by Ivica Buljan
English Translation of Pylade is by Adam Paolozza and Coleen MacPherson
Assistant Directed by Arthur Adair
Performed by Great Jones Repertory Company with Marco Mandić
Music composed by Michael Sirotta, additional music by Yukio Tsuji and Heather Paauwe

Thursday December 03 -  Friday December 18, 2015
Thursday - Saturday at 7pm; Sunday at 4pm

The Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa
66 East 4th Street
(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors; ten tickets priced at $10 each are available for every performance as part of La MaMa's 10@$10 ticketing program (advance sale only).

Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

6 Questions - Video Edition: IVICA BULJAN (Part 1)

Ivica Buljan, acclaimed Croatian director, collaborates with La MaMa’s legendary repertory company, Great Jones Rep, including in the cast long time company member Mia Yoo and leading Slovenian National Theatre actor, Marko Mandić, in the U.S. Premiere of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s PYLADE. Based on the ORESTEIA, this contemporary interpretation of the Greek myth is a poetic, tragic meditation on democracy, consumerism and the struggle for real social change. The rhythm and emotion of Pasolini’s text, translated into English by Adam Paolozza and Coleen MacPherson, is heightened by the music and movement incorporated into this production by Ivica Buljan and Great Jones Rep.

Ivica took time out from rehearsals to answer our 6 Questions, in our first-ever video edition. This is Question #1:

La MaMa presents
PYLADE
by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Director Ivica Buljan
English Translation Adam Paolozza and Coleen MacPherson
Assistant Director Arthur Adair

Music Composer Michael Sirotta
Additional Music Yukio Tsuji and Heather Paauwe
Light Designer Mike Riggs
Costume Designer Ana Savić Gecan
Company Coach George Drance
Dramaturg Zishan Ugurlu
Stage Manager Zulivet Diaz

Great Jones Repertory Company Performers Eugene the Poogene, Maura Donahue, Cary Gant, John Gutierrez, Valois Mickens, Tunde Sho, Chris Wild, Mia Yoo and Perry Yung
Special Guest Artist Marko Mandić

December 03 - December 18, 2015
Thursday - Saturday at 7pm, Sunday at 4pm

The Ellen Stewart Theatre

66 East 4th Street

(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors; ten tickets prices at $10 available for every performance as part of La MaMa's 10@$10 ticketing initiative.

For Tickets and info: CLICK HERE

PYLADE Poster

PYLADE poster designed by Nicky Lindeman and Mirko Ilić

Ivica Buljan, acclaimed Croatian director, collaborates with La MaMa’s legendary repertory company, Great Jones Rep and leading Slovenian National Theatre actor, Marko Mandić, in the U.S. Premiere of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s PYLADE. Based on the ORESTEIA, this contemporary interpretation of the Greek myth is a poetic, tragic meditation on democracy, consumerism and the struggle for real social change. The rhythm and emotion of Pasolini’s text, translated into English by Adam Paolozza and Coleen MacPherson, is heightened by the music and movement incorporated into this production by Ivica Buljan and Great Jones Rep.

La MaMa presents PYLADE  by Pier Paolo Pasolini Director Ivica Buljan English Translation Adam Paolozza and Coleen MacPherson Assistant Director Arthur Adair       Music Composer Michael Sirotta    Additional Music Yukio Tsuji and Heather Paauwe  Light Designer Mike Riggs       Costume Designer Ana Savić Gecan Company Coach George Drance      Dramaturg Zishan Ugurlu      Stage Manager Zulivet Diaz Great Jones Repertory Company Performers Eugene the Poogene, Maura Donahue, Cary Gant, John Gutierrez, Valois Mickens, Tunde Sho, Chris Wild, Mia Yoo and Perry Yung Special Guest Artist Marko Mandić

December 03 - December 18, 2015 Thursday - Saturday at 7pm, Sunday at 4pm  The Ellen Stewart Theatre 66 East 4th Street (between Bowery and Second Avenue) New York, NY 10003  Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors; ten tickets prices at $10 available for every performance as part of La MaMa's 10@$10 ticketing initiative.

For Tickets and info: CLICK HERE

BroadwayWorld on Pasolini's PYLADE at La MaMa

BroadwayWorld covers the US premier of PYLADE by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Directed by Ivica Buljan, the cast includes leading actor of the Slovenian National Theatre, Marco Mandic joining members of The Great Jones Repertory Company, including La MaMa's Artistic Director, Mia Yoo,  Perry Yung, Cary Gant, Eugene the Poogene, Maura Donahue, Valois Mickens, John Gutierrez, Chris Wild and Tunde Sho.

"Pasolini's PYLADE, a contemporary reinterpretation of the relationship between Pylades and Orestes from Greek mythology and the ORESTEIA, is a poetic, tragic meditation on democracy, consumerism, and the struggle for real social change. The rhythm and emotion of Pasolini's text, translated into English by Adam Paolozza and Coleen MacPherson, is heightened by the music and movement incorporated into this production by Buljan and GJRC, to create a total theatre of movement, text, spectacle and music. "The re-construction" of democracy was of principal interest to Pasolini," stated Mr. Buljan."

PLYADE plays The Ellen Stewart Theater from December 3 - 18, 2015 for 10 performances only.

La MaMa presents

PYLADE

Written by Pier Paolo Pasolini
English Translation of Pylade is by Adam Paolozza and Coleen MacPherson
Directed by Ivica Buljan
Assistant Directed by Arthur Adair
Performed by Great Jones Repertory Company with Marco Mandić
Music composed by Michael Sirotta, additional music by Yukio Tsuji and Heather Paauwe

Thursday December 3 - Friday December 18, 2015
Thursday - Saturday at 7pm; Sunday at 4pm

The Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa
66 East 4th Street
(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors; ten tickets priced at $10 each available for each performance, in advance only, as part of La MaMa's 10@$10 ticketing program!

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE