Philip Himberg

Broschiertes Buch

Paper Dolls

Beschreibung

"You know, Yossi, we couldn't dress like this in the Philippines. wear earrings, dye our hair, put on make up, lipstick. It's forbidden." In Tel Aviv, Israel, a group of Filipino immigrants work as live-in carers for elderly Orthodox Jewish men. Six days a week they provide dedicated support to their employers. But on the seventh day they transform into a homespun, sassy musical drag act. Meet the Paper Dolls! An extraordinary true story exploring an unlikely collision of cultures and the universal desire to find 'home'. Based on Tomer Heymann's award-winning documentary of the same name, Paper Dolls explores changing patterns of global immigration and expanding notions of family through the prism of a community of Filipino transvestites who live illegally in Israel.

Autor

Philip Himberg has overseen all aspects of the Sundance Institute Theatre Program since 1997. Philip most recently wrote the play, Paper Dolls, an adaptation of the Israeli documentary film. He co-wrote and directed the world premiere of Maureen McGovern's A Long and Winding Road at Boston's Huntington Theatre and Arena Stage in D.C. Now titled Carry It On, the play opened at Geva in Rochester last season, and was subsequently produced at Two Rivers Theatre, in New Jersey in 2012. He was co-artistic director of Playwrights Horizons in New York, in the theatre's most formative years and directed there as well. He is a recipient of the Theatre Communications Group/National Endowment for the Arts Artistic Fellowship, which brought him to the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, where he was staff producer for the Mark Taper's Improvisational Theatre Project (I.T.P.), a resident touring ensemble. He created the first live performance series at the Sundance Film Festivals presenting Sundance Institute Theatre Lab-developed work for audiences there (Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife, The Gimmick by Dael Orlandersmith, and Charlayne Woodard's In Real Life), as well as curated solo performances for the Festival (Jodie's Body, The Vagina Monologues). He currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of Theatre Communications Group. Mr. Himberg has served as an adjunct professor of Theatre at NYU/Tisch and also teaches at Yale School of Drama. His essay, Family Albums, published in 2007 in the Dutton Anthology, Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, was recently released in paperback.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Methuen Drama
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 123g
• ISBN-13: 9781472511270
• ISBN-10: 1472511271
• Artikelnr.: 37483438