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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br>
[revised specifically for Kafka's <em><i><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>The Trial</span></font></i></em>: "An
Extraordinary Rendition"]<br>
March, 2007<br>
<span style='layout-grid-mode:line'>Pilgrim Theatre, </span>pilgrim@mit.edu<span
style='layout-grid-mode:line'>, (413)628-3850<br>
</span>Media Contact for the Pilgrim Theatre:<br>
Mary Curtin, 617-241-9664, 617-470-5867 (cell), marycurtin@comcast.net<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><strong><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Pilgrim
Theatre Research and Performance Collaborative</span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
presents <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Kafka's <em><i><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>The Trial: "</span></font></i></em><strong><b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>An Extraordinary Rendition</span></font></b></strong><em><i><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>"</span></font></i></em><br>
<br>
</span></b>created and performed by <br>
<strong><b><span
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t"><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Kermit Dunkelberg</span></font></b></strong><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><br>
</span></b><strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;
font-weight:normal'><span
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t">directed</span>
by</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font face=Arial
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t"><span
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t"><span
style='font-family:Arial'> Kim Mancuso</span></font></b></strong><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><br>
<br>
</span></b><font color=black><span style='color:black'>March 21 through March
25<br>
</span></font></span>Plaza Black Box Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts<br>
<br>
"<i><span style='font-style:italic'>There can be no doubt that behind all
the actions of this court of justice, <br>
that is to say in my case, behind my arrest and today’s interrogation, <br>
there is a great organization at work…and the significance of this great
organization, gentlemen? <br>
It consists in this, that innocent persons are accused of guilt, <br>
and senseless proceedings are put into motion against them</span></i>…."
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Trial</span></i>, Franz Kafka).<br>
<br>
[<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal'>second
production in the series</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font face=Arial
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t"><span
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t"><span
style='font-family:Arial'> <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Crossing Borders
III </span></i>: </span></span></font></b></strong><em><b><i><font face=Arial
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t"><span
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t"><span
style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Voices</span></span></font></i></b></em><strong><b><font
face=Arial
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t"><span
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t"><span
style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal'>]</span></font></b></strong><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><br>
<br>
</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'></span></span>(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Boston</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">MA</st1:State></st1:place>) <span
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t">Pilgrim
Theatre Research and Performance Collaborative</span></span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
normal'> presents </span></font></b></strong><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Kafka’s<em><i><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> The Trial: “An Extraordinary
Rendition”</span></font></i></em></span></font></b><em><i><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.</span></font></i></em><strong><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
normal'>Second production in the series </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Crossing
Borders III: </span></font></b></strong><em><b><i><font size=2 face=Arial
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t"><span
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Voices</span></span></font></i></b></em><strong><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
normal'><span
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t">.</span></span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:normal'>March
21 through March 25</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal'>;
show times: Wed.-Sat., 8 pm; Sat.-Sun., 2 pm. At the Plaza Black Box Theatre at
the <st1:City w:st="on">Boston</st1:City> Center for the Arts, <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">539 Tremont Street, South</st1:address></st1:Street>
End, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Boston</st1:City></st1:place>.
Convenient to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Orange</st1:City></st1:place>
and Silver Lines; wheelchair access provided. Tickets: $18.50-$23, $15.50 for
students & seniors; special “Pay What You Can” on Wed. night
(minimum $5) available two hours before curtain at the Box Office. Special ASL
performance on Friday March 23 at 8pm and Saturday March 24 at 2pm. For advance
tickets and information: BostonTheatreScene.com Box Office at 617-933-8600 or
www.BostonTheatreScene.com; other advance ticket outlets: the Stanford
Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street,
Boston or at the BU Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave, Boston.</span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Pilgrim Theatre</span></b>'s witty and
satirical <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Kafka’s <em><i><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>The Trial: "</span></font></i></em>An
Extraordinary Rendition<em><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>"</span></font></i></em></span></b>
created and performed by <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Kermit Dunkelberg</span></b>
(as Yusef K.) with <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Chris Crowley</span></b>
(as the Silent Usher) is the company’s latest project, coming
directly on the heels of the critically acclaimed <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>N (Bonaparte)</span></i>. Welcome to the 21<sup>st</sup> century:
bureaucracy, alienation, and perpetual, all-consuming guilt. Then add a
dash of smart humor and a slice of cool moves.<br>
<br>
The original theatrical exploration based on Franz Kafka’s “<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Trial</span></i>” intends an “extraordinary
rendition” of Kafka’s tale of domestic surveillance and undisclosed
charges. After all, someone must have been telling lies about Yusef K.,
for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. Guilt
and innocence become immaterial when a bureaucracy has the strength to create
not only the laws, but the trials and the verdicts. What is the outcome
when one is uncertain of one’s crime, or whether one has even committed a
crime? Do we, perforce, lose belief in our own innocence?<br>
<br>
"<i><span style='font-style:italic'>If you want a serious interrogation,
you send a prisoner to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Jordan</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
If you want them to be tortured, you send them to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Syria</st1:country-region></st1:place>. If you want someone to
disappear – never to see them again – you send them to <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></i>"
(former CIA agent Robert Baer).<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Kermit Dunkelberg</span></b>, a co-founder
and Core Actor of Pilgrim Theatre, has created ground-breaking roles for the
company for twenty years. A student of Jerzy Grotowski’s at Irvine,
CA, and a company member of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Drugie Studio
Wroclawskie</span></i> (Second Studio of Wroclaw Poland, under Zbigniew
Cynkutis), Dunkelberg has explored the sonic and physical textures of
performance, pushing the envelope with each new artistic journey. <font
color=black><span style='color:black'>"Dunkelberg is
thrilling." says Liza Weisstuch of the <em><i><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Boston Phoenix</span></font></i></em>.
</span></font>He's "one of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Boston</st1:City></st1:place>'s
most intense actor/writer/directors" (<em><i><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Boston Theatre Mirror</span></font></i></em>)
Driven by Dunkelberg, Pilgrim Theatre's eclectic body of work has always been
immediate, physical and provocative. <em><i><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>The Boston Globe</span></font></i></em> has praised
Pilgrim Theatre's "innovation, physical performance, and risk-taking. This
company is trying to push theatre in a new direction."<br>
<br>
Inspired by Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag’s work <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Kafka-Fragmente</span></i>, among other sources,
Pilgrim Theatre’s latest confrontation of contemporary reality smashes
the literary up against the theatrical. Walter Benjamin has claimed that
“<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Kafka’s entire literary ouevre
is a codex of gestures</span></i>.” It is this theatricality which
Dunkelberg announces in his search for the tension between the sonic (music/text)
and presence (body).<br>
<br>
The small, precise performance invites the audience, without judgment, into a
dialogue about our role in today’s “teatr real”. We are
updated daily in our newspapers and on laptop screens about the latest movement
in the “theatre” of war. Our information stream implicates all of
us as surely as if we were discovered with weapon in hand.<br>
<br>
The third year of <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Pilgrim Theatre</span></b>’s
ambitious and successful series <b><i><span
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t"><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Crossing Borders </span></span></i></b>brings
together an extraordinary array of performative voices in a theatre festival at
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Boston</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> for the Arts’ Plaza Black
Box Theatre. Accordingly, the Festival’s title this year is <em><b><i><font
face=Arial
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t"><span
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t"><span
style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Voices</span></span></font></i></b></em>.
Each of the four productions proposes a different and fascinating use of the
voice. A courageous artist confronts his aphasia (vocal impairment due to
stroke) and creates a performance; another challenges bureaucracy in search of
the meaning buried under what is NOT spoken; cabaret performers traverse
geographic and historical borderlines in song; a calmly intelligent woman
confronts a cockroach and discovers her passionately wild side; the four
productions offer a feast for the theatre-lover. Pilgrim Theatre, a Resident
Theatre at <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Boston</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType> for the Arts, has won an NEA Challenge <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>
award to bring the Deaf and Deaf-Blind communities to the <b><i><span
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t"><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Crossing Borders III</span></span></i></b>
festival this spring. The entire series runs from March 14 through April 7. For
more information on Pilgrim Theatre, log onto www.pilgrimtheatre.org.<br
title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t">
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title="http://www.bostontheatrescene.com/season/production.aspx?id=3524&src=t">
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-submitted by marycurtinproductions<br>
c/o Mary Curtin<br>
<st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">PO Box 290703</st1:Street>, <st1:City
w:st="on">Charlestown</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MA</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">02129</st1:PostalCode></st1:address><br>
617-241-9664, 617-470-5867 (cell), marycurtin@comcast.net<br>
"dedicated to staging insightful entertainment, particularly in
non-traditional venues"<br>
www.marycurtinproductions.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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