Leonard Nimoy’s performance as Roger in the film version of The Balcony….
The Balcony
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Tableau IV (Nathalie Brilliant as The Girl: Florentina Mocanu-Schendel as Little Old Man) HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY from all us at Collected Works. Our Balcony at The Old Mint contains multiple examples of how to sustain long term healthy and supportive relationships that are sure to impress your sweety….
Second week of The Balcony at The Old Mint
As went enter into our second week on The Balcony we want to say a huge thank you to the 300+ who saw the production last week, and look forward to playing with new friends this week. If you haven’t secured your tickets, it’s time, as we only have six performances left.
from How to Play The Balcony by Jean Genet
In London, at the Arts Theatre – I saw it – The Balcony was badly staged. It was also bad in New York, Berlin, and in Paris. At least that’s what I was told. In London, the director had had the intention of destroying the one and only British monarchy, above all the Queen, and, with the…
The Cast of The Balcony
Valerie Fachman (Arthur) Valerie is pleased to perform again in The Balcony, having first done so in Chicago in 1985 as Chantal, with the now-defunct Gallery Theatre. Valerie spent 15 years performing, adapting literature to the stage, and co-producing independent theatre in Chi-town with Famous Door (3X Jeff-nominated Shrapnel in the Heart), Pegasus Players (Young…
Sneak Peak of The Balcony at The Old Mint
The Production Crew for The Balcony
Jamie Lyons (co- director/producer) Avid surfer, educator, writer, filmmaker, sailor and stage director who received his AB and PhD from Stanford University. For theatre he has worked at the Mark Taper Forum, Magic Theatre, The Public Theater, La Mama ETC, PS122, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and for six years with the avant-garde New…
Playing in The Old Mint
Balcony Reading #2
San Francisco Mint (1871): Eadweard Muybridge
Muybridge’s stop-action experiments at Stanford’s Palo Alto Stock Farm earned him the title “father of cinema.” Yet he was also an extraordinary photographer. He arrived in San Francisco as Eadweard Muybridge, spelling his first name the way the Saxon kings had. When that didn’t get him enough attention, he dumped his name altogether and began…
Chopin, The Balcony and Performance Salons
This may be a little circuitous. But working on Genet’s The Balcony, where Chopin’s “Funeral March” is the only music direction within the script. As it turns out, Chopin loved performance salons (poetry/music). He was particularly fond of Joseph Kessler’s Friday soirées, where Warsaw’s best musicians, professionals and amateurs, gathered for “quartets” and made music…
Original Program from Brook’s production of Le Balcon (1960)
Peter Brook was originally set to direct The Balcony in 1958 at the Théâtre Antoine in Paris, until he was forced to postpone when Simone Berriau (Théâtre Antoine’s artistic director) was threatened by the Parisian police. For while she was with the police, a hand beckoned her into an inner room and she was told,…