Music + Performance
Heiner Mueller: The Task
Friday, January 22, 2010 - Sunday, March 7, 2010
The promise of revolution comes to Jamaica in 1799, as the timeless themes of love, loss and betrayal collide in a challenging play by acclaimed German avant-gardist Heiner Müller.
Colonial Jamaica. Napoleon's Paris. A barren Peruvian grassland. A modern-day New York City street. These are the settings for The Task, Heiner Müller's collage of stage images - of dream and nightmare, of love and betrayal, and of revolution called off. This is theatre as secular spiritual experience, featuring music and lyrics by Fred Newman.
Castillo continues expanding the boundaries of political theatre as popular director Gabrielle L. Kurlander mounts the first ever all-Black American production of Müller's The Task. With Fred Newman's avant-garde songs, Billy Taylor's gospel, R&B classics and rap, this is New York City experimental theatre at its best.
WARNING: The play contains some nudity and strong language.
Castillo Theatre
543 West 42nd Street(bet. 10th & 11th Avenues)
New York, NY
212.941.1234
event website
Tickets are $35. Showtimes are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 2pm.
Due to popular demand The Task - has been extended to Sunday, March 7th!!