THE CLARION THEATRE presents

DER KANARIENVOGEL (THE CANARY)

A new play by STEVEN CARL McCASLAND
Directed by STEVEN CARL McCASLAND

Cast
Elizabeth Schwarzkopf...Anna Kirkland
Mike Hamilton...Brian Piehl
Joseph Goebbels...Levi Morger
Maria Ivogun...Ellyn Stein
Karl Bohm...Mathew Martin
Adolf Hitler...David Gautschy
Kirsten Flagstad...Kim Rogers
Richard Strauss...Rick Grossman*
Herman Wilhelm Goring...Orlando Iriarte
Eva Braun/Assistant...Rachel Adams
*Appearing courtesy of the Actors' Equity Association

Creative Team
Director: Steven Carl McCasland
Stage Manager: Hailli Ridscale
Assistant Director: Kristen Gehling*
Lighting Designer: Jessical Creager
Costume Designer: Somie Pak

The Clarion Theatre
309 East 26th Street
New York City

Tickets can be purchased at http://BeautifulSoup.Showclix.com.
View the trailer at www.tinyurl.com/InRepertory.
May 7th - May 31st, 2015

DER KANARIENVOGEL (THE CANARY) is a play featuring Arias by Guiseppe Verdi and Richard Strauss that explores the life and career of soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (played by actual soprano Anna Kirkland) and how it collides with the inner circle of The Third Reich. Mike Hamilton (Brian Piehl) in academia interviews Schwarzkopf in her later years for his dissertation to prove how politics and music are inseparable. Schwarzkopf, considered a Nazi sympathizer, will do anything to have a shining opera career until her conscious awareness makes her realize she's associating with monsters only to feel like a victim herself. Kirsten Flagstad (Kim Rogers) another opera singer acts as her alter ego exposing her to the horrific events happening to the Jews. Richard Strauss (Rick Grossman)
unveils The Third Reich injustices and her guilty memories of not helping such a great composer yet she sings his arias to Adolf Hitler (David Gautschy) and her lover Hermann Wilhelm Goring (Orlando Iriarte).

The playwright does not claim that this story is fiction and it is not intended to reflect actual circumstances and events.

If you'd like to see something from The Third Reich point of vue which really stretches your comfort zone, then go to Der Kanarienvogel (The Canary) at The Clarion Theatre.

- Laura Thompson -
http://www.loralia.com @LORALIA