Sarah Kane Play Among Offerings at St. Ann’s Warehouse

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Sarah Kane Play Among Offerings at St. Ann’s Warehouse

By ALLAN KOZINN / The New York Times

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A production of the British playwright Sarah Kane’s “4:48 Psychosis,” by the Polish company TR Warszawa (Variety Theater in Warsaw), is among the highlights of the 2014-15 season at St. Ann’s Warehouse, the presenter of experimental theater and music in Brooklyn. (The playwright, whose best-known work, “Blasted,” took 13 years to make it to a New York stage, wrote “4:48 Psychosis” shortly before she committed suicide in 1999.)

The season, which was announced on Wednesday, is the last in St. Ann’s temporary home on Jay Street, in DUMBO. Next season, the house moves to its new home, a 25,000 square foot cultural center at the site of the Tobacco Warehouse in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

The season opens on Oct. 16 with the production of “4:48 Psychosis,” directed by Grzegorz Jarzyna and starring Magdalena Cielecka (Oct. 16 to 26). TR Warszawa appeared at St. Ann’s in 2012, when it presented “Festen,” a Polish adaptation of the Danish film by Thomas Vinterberg, also directed by Mr. Jarzyna, with Ms. Cielecka in a central role.

The Tiger Lillies, the adventurously gritty London cabaret group, will present a Halloween program (Oct. 30 to Nov. 1), and Kneehigh, a Cornish theater troupe, will present “Tristan & Yseult,” an adaptation of the medieval Celtic tale of forbidden love that is best known today by way of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” (Nov. 13 to Dec. 7). The house is also offering an installment of the Prototype: Opera/Theater/Now festival, “Toxic Poems,” by the Slovenian vocal theater company Carmina Slovenica. And the Wooster Group will close the season with two productions – “Cry, Trojans!,” a reconfiguration of Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida” (March 24 to April 19) and “Early Shaker Spirituals,” a live, staged rendering of the songs from the similarly titled 1976 album by the sisters of the Shaker Community in Sabbathday Lake, Maine (April 23 to May 3).

Reference: The New York Times