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John Jahnke, Writer and Director

John Jahnke, Writer and Director

The Hotel Savant and its artistic director John Jahnke have in the past few years brought forth a string of interesting, hyper-stylized productions (The Cenci and The Archery Contest most recently) and they aren't slowing down. As part of P.S. 122's COIL festival, the group's latest, Men Go Down (Part 3: Black Recollections), is currently playing through January 22nd at the 3LD Art and Technology Center in Lower Manhattan. After recently experiencing the brisk 70-minute show, we had a few questions for Jahnke, the show's writer and director. more ›

Opinionist: <em>The Cenci</em>

Opinionist: The Cenci

Director, playwright, actor and outcast surrealist Antonin Artaud is perhaps best known for the manifestos set forth in his book Theater and Its Double, which envisioned a new form of radical performance he dubbed “The Theater of Cruelty.” Artaud intended to shock audiences out of complacency by replacing the familiar comforts of naturalistic psycho-drama with a surreal, sensually graphic theatricality, one that traded escapism for confrontation and – Artaud theorized – would rock the bourgeois establishment with “humor as destruction.” more ›

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