THE ARGUMENT & DINNER PARTY

 

January 11 - 14, 2008

Friday Jan 11th @ 3pm, Saturday Jan 12th @ 7pm

Sunday Jan 13th @ 3pm, Monday Jan 14th @ 7pm

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"Rather than telling us what to think, the production encourages us to think, proving that wrestling with ideas can be incredibly entertaining." - Variety

 

 


Tickets $15/$10 students - 212-352-3101

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Theater Three - 311 W43rd St, 3rd Floor

 

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THE ARGUMENT

written and performed by David Greenspan

Fresh from his OBIE award winning performance in his latest collaboration with Target Margin, as Mephisto in last season's Faust, the multi-talented David Greenspan writes and stars in a new one-man play. Based on both Aristotle's Poetics and the essays of Gerald F. Else, The Argument is a passionate student's love-letter and farewell to his teacher - reminding us of the personal pathos that binds us to the Greeks, and firing us to capture that chimera, art.

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DINNER PARTY

with Han Nah Kim, Diana Konopka, Mary Neufeld,

Steven Rattazzi, Greig Sargeant, Stephanie Weeks, Ian Wen

An artful and loose adaptation of Plato’s Symposium, Dinner Party takes on love from every angle, delving into the original text with gusto to bring out the philosophy and lust, language and appetite, the abstract challenges to our dearly held prejudices – not to mention the really good wine.

                

Directed by David Herskovits

  

This project has received major support from The New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Altria Group, Inc., The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The John & Margo Catsimatidis Foundation, The Lila Acheson Wallace Fund for Small Theatres, The Lucille Lortel Foundation, The Tony Randall Theatrical Fund and many other generous donors.