He is returning a bag that she lost on the Paris Métro, but he doesn’t reveal he stole it… Instead, he tells her the story of Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, watchmaker, inventor, and master magician of the 19th century. In The Art of Illusion it is 1984, and as the France vs Yugoslavia match unfolds on TV, a man meets a woman in a Parisian café. The Hampstead Downstairs theatre will also showcase two new plays, with the UK premiere of Alexis Michalik’s The Art of Illusion, directed by Tom Jackson Greaves, and running from 17 December 2022 to 28 January 2023. As the couple strive to build a radical kind of marriage, Catharina’s mother becomes obsessed with her mysterious son-in-law and sets out to uncover his secret – a secret that, if revealed, would threaten to engulf them all… But when he meets passionate young Catharina Mülhahn, so strong is the attraction that the match becomes inevitable. Dashing musketeer and skilled seducer Anastasius Linck has no intention of falling in love. Linck and Mülhahn is set in Prussia in 1720. This plays from 27 January to Saturday 4 March 2023. Sons of Prophet centres on Joseph Douaihy, a gay American-Lebanese Maronite Christian in rural Pennsylvania, who has a pretty complicated life! When his father dies as the result of a prank, life truly spirals towards the bizarre… With unexplained pain blocking his athletics career, a desperate new boss who wants to capitalize on his grief, a dependent uncle who thinks he’s his legal guardian and a very wayward younger brother, Joseph has a lot on his plate… So he really should not be spending time with the attractive journalist who’s looking for the inside scoop on his father’s accident…Īlso in the main theatre, Hampstead is staging the world premiere of Linck and Mülhahn by Ruby Thomas, directed by Owen Horsley. The play runs from 2 December 2022 to 14 January 2023. In the main theatre, Stephen Karam’s play Sons of the Prophet gets its European premiere, directed by Bijan Sheibani. In this production Alcandre and the Amanuensis are female and Pridamont is the brother of Calisto.Hampstead Theatre in North London has announced four new plays for its Autumn 2022 / Winter 2023 season. Pleribo/Adraste/Prince Florilame – Dylan Brady The Amanuensis/Gerontine – Kirsty JohnsonĬalisto/Clindor/Theogenes – Thomas Ghaleb In that light, The Illusion is an uncommon delight.’ ‘Rarely do two artistic pioneers collaborate when there is four-hundred years of distance between them. It articulates the relationship between theatre and sorcery - Corneille’s chief concern here is a defence of his theatrical art - while pulsing with a language that is recognisably Kushner’s own, lyrical and at times luxuriant.’ ‘The Illusion is Tony Kushner’s adaptation of a 1636 play by Pierre Corneille. An enchanting argument for the power of theatrical imagination over reality, The Illusion weaves obsession and caprice, romance and murder, fact and fiction, into an enticing exploration of the greatest illusion of all – love. Each episode finds the son in a different world as Pridamant watches, enthralled by his son’s struggles. The sorceress conjures three episodes from the young man’s life. Thursday 22 – Saturday 24 November 2018 The Illusionīy Pierre Corneille, Freely adapted by Tony Kushnerįreely adapted by Tony Kushner from the original play by Pierre Corneille (1606-84), The Illusion follows the story of a contrite father, Pridamant, seeking news of his prodigal son from a sorceress.
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