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 LENI
by Sarah Greenman
Can a Single Piece of Art Really be
So Dangerous?
October 20 - November 11
Thursday - Saturday @ 8:30pm
Sunday Matinee - October 29 @ 1pm
The
Academy Theater
7818 SE Stark Stre
Portland, OR 97215
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Sliding Scale $5-$15 every Thursday
 German
filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl is dead, but she is not ready
to lie down. Riefenstahl's 1934 film,
Triumph of the Will was commissioned by the
Third Reich and supplied Hitler with an embattled epic
that remains under lock and key in Germany to this day.
Fascism was mythic politics and Riefenstahl became its
myth-maker. She was a child of the century and embodied
some of its most troubling contradictions. Riefenstahl
claimed until her death in 2003 that her obsession with
creating perfect art left her blind to the propaganda
machine that used her film to hypnotize a nation.
Set in the context of Riefenstahl directing her own
autobiographical film, Greenman's play journeys deep
inside the mind and media of Leni Riefenstahl to
discover why art can be a dangerous business.
Featuring JoAnn Johnson and Cecily Overman.
Original music by Eric Nordin.
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presentation prior to the show.
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Special Thanks To:
Our Cast & Crew!
| Director |
Sarah Greenman |
| Actors |
JoAnn Johnson |
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Cecily Overman |
| Production Manager |
Samantha Swaim |
| Stage Manager |
Craig Annsa |
| Costume Design |
Lori Sue Hoffman |
| Lighting Design |
Glenn Fujimura |
| Set Design |
Kate Kauffman |
| Sound Design |
Sam Kusnetz |
| Props |
Lauren Brenneman |
| Composer |
Eric Nordin |
| Tech Crew/Board Op |
Dan Ruiz |
LENI
Cast & Crew BIOs
"It
is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”
-Pablo Picasso
“All true artists deeply love and revere the Führer. He
is their friend and, when necessary, a generous
protector. Never was there a royal patron who was so
open-minded about the arts. His sense of what is
beautiful has none of that unpleasant, pseudo-aesthetic
quality of hedonistic selfishness. His is a sense of
what is simultaneously useful and what is universal.
Where art is great and promising, he reaches out to it
with his patronage. He opens his heart and
wallet—especially when it is a matter of bringing art to
the people and the people to art.”
-Joseph Goebbels
“Leni Riefenstahl’s triptych of fascist visuals centers
on the orgiastic transactions between mighty forces and
their puppets. Its choreography alternates between
ceaseless motion and a congealed, static, virile
posing.”
-Susan Sontag
“Reality doesn’t interest me.”
-Leni Riefenstahl
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