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Ivo van Hove is the director ofT


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here at New York Theatre Workshop. He is a Finnish-born director who has worked extensively in Europe and the United States in theater and opera, usually incorporating video projection and other forms of mixed media. Ivo has collaborated with New York Theatre Workshop five times before: Mor Masi sby Eugene O‘Neill (1997), A S N ed D re by Tennessee Williams (1999), Alc n Bed by Susan Sontag (2000), Hed Gaber by Henrik Ibsen (2004), and T Mis


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opeby Molière (2008). We are thrilled


to welcome him back for what will be a bold and daring production of a classic American play.


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Ivo‘s work has been referred to as ―iconoclastic.‖ An iconoclast is anyone who breaks established dogma or conventions. Ivo does not stage standard or typical productions of famous plays. Instead he creates new worlds for the play and its characters in order to resonate with modern audiences and the contemporary world they live in.


Ivo is always inspired by two things: 1. the script itself and 2. the world he lives in. His theater uses works from the past in order to tell us something about the present.


WHAT IVO SAYS about T


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―This family is isolated, frozen in time, like animals running out of food, chewing each other up. They inhabit a once civilized, aristocratic world in decay, where people do not know how to


escape. They become bitter, frustrated, cannibalistic. They are like foxes that ruin the fruitful vines because they are too greedy. Foxes that have to be caught because they destroy the future. Greed is the problem, the fate hanging over this family.


…But most of all, think of the fatal hubris of these characters who think they can control their lives.‖


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