Four Jews on Parnassus — A Conversation

Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Schönberg: A Dispute About Art, Music, Identity, Wives, And Pornography

Stanford's Rush Rehm and Kay Kostopolous, along with OBIE award-winner Gerald Hiken, Bay Area pros Ken Sonkin and William Wolak, and London opera star Loré Lixenberg star in this provocative world premiere. Directed by Vienna-based Isabella Gregor, this performance adaptation of Carl Djerassi's genre-bending book Four Jews on Parnassus - a Conversation features the imagined posthumous conversations of Arnold Schoenberg, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem and Theodor Adorno, the art of Paul Klee, student improvisation commenting on the argument and the arguers, and pop and rap numbers.

Based on the book by Carl Djerassi

Adapted by Carl Djerassi and Isabella Gregor

Directed by Isabella Gregor

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Date and Time:
 Saturday, February 6, 2010.  7:30 PM.
Approximate duration of 2.00 hour(s).
Location:
Pigott Theater, Memorial Hall Stanford University  [Map]
Audience:
General Public
Category:
Performances
Arts
Sponsor:
Co-sponsored by the Stanford Institute for Creativity in the Arts and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford.
Contact:
650 736-4087
[email protected]
Admission:
Free and open to the Public. Seating is limited -- Reservations recommended https://arts.stanford.edu/parnassus
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February 3, 2010