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Richard Maxwell Neutral Hero

Name: Richard Maxwell Neutral Hero
Start: 2011-09-21
End: 2011-09-25
Location: Centre Pompidou

[Theatre]

Richard Maxwell’s theater approaches the American way of life by looking at the everyday. Set in the Midwest where Maxwell grew up, Neutral Hero departs from this ordinary setting by creating a curious epic from the myths that have infused stories since the beginning of time and setting them to music (Maxwell’s own folk songs) – proving that theater cannot ever be neutralized.

Credits

Neutral Hero
Writer/Director/Composer, Richard Maxwell
Set, Light Designer, Sascha van Riel
Costume Designer, Kaye Voyce
Company Manager, Nicholas Elliott
Technical Director, Dirk Stevens
Technical Consultant, Bozkurt Karasu
Dramaturgy, Tom King
Interns, O’Hagan Blades, Jerimee Bloemeke, Eric Escalante, Chet King, Tim Lash, Alex Murphy, Olivia O’Brien, Nathan Truman
With Lakpa Bhutia, Janet Coleman, Keith Connolly, Alex Delinois, Bob Feldman, Jean Ann Garrish, Rosie Goldensohn, Paige Martin, James Moore, Philip Moore, Andie Springer, Andrew Weisell

Production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts
Executive production: New York City Players
Coproduction: Wiener Festwochen, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Les Spectacles vivants - Centre Pompidou (Paris), Kampnagel (Hamburg), Hebbel am Ufer/HAU (Berlin), Théâtre de l’Agora, Scène Nationale d’Evry et de l’Essonne, Festival TransAmériques (Montréal), De Internationale Keuze van de Rotterdamse Schouwburg, La Bâtie - Festival de Genève, Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse)
With support from the Greenwall Foundation
This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Special Thanks: Natalie Alvarez; Baryshnikov Arts Center; Caroline Crumpacker; Steve Cuiffo; Jim Fletcher; Greene Naftali; Steve Griesgraber; Cynthia Hedstrom; Trudy Hekman; Sibyl Kempson; Anna Kohler and Juergen Schoenstein; Claudia La Rocco; Ben Lively; Robert Lunney; Elizabeth Maxwell; Jan Maxwell; Brian Mendes; Heike Posch; Gary Prusaitis; Jay Sanders; Michael Schmelling; Scott Sherratt; Naama and Pete Simpson; Mónica de la Torre; Tory Vazquez; Willie White; Eva Zagarova