ARTEK: Artemisia
- Date
- Thu, 31 Jan 2019 7:00 pm
Description
ARTEMISIA: Light and Shadow
ARTEK's theater show featuring actress/singer Sarah Chalfy as the Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, with music by Strozzi and Cavalli.
A life more dramatic than an Italian opera: Trained in art by her father, raped as a teenager, Artemisia survived a sensational trial to become an internationally renowned painter, and the secret lover of a Florentine nobleman. A 17th-century MeToo tale for today.
"On stage, Artemisia is also vengeful, but philosophical, and ultimately joyful. She sings of fate and destiny and, as she did so, I was moved, included, inspired, comforted." Phyllis Chesler, noted feminist writer.
Thursday, January 31 at 7 pm
17 Frost Gallery, 17 Frost Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(accessible by Bedford Ave. stop on the L)
Admission: $20 suggested donation at the door ($10 students/under 25)
Advance reservations requested at artekearlymusic@gmail.com