A seven-hour dramatization of “The Great Gatsby,” Henrik Ibsen’s “The Wild Duck” and a new version of “Le Sacre du Printemps” performed by West African dancers are among the diverse and international offerings on tap next season in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s performance series.
The MCA is announcing a partial line-up for now. Additional programs will be unveiled later. The fall schedule includes: New York monologist Mike Daisey in “If You See Something, Say Something,” touching on homeland security and the inventor of the neutron bomb, Oct. 10-12; French choreographer Heddy Maalem’s “Le Sacre,” set in Nigeria and featuring 14 dancers, Oct. 17-19; the New York-based Elevator Repair Service in “GATZ,” an epic adaptation of “Gatsby,” Nov. 14-16; and Chicago’s Blair Thomas & Company in “The Ox-Herder’s Tale,” told in the Japanese bunraku style of puppetry, Nov. 19-30.
Next winter, the series continues with Court Theatre’s “The Wild Duck” Jan. 15-Feb. 15; the Japanese troupe chelfitsch in “Five Days in March,” set during the 2003 Iraq war offensive; San Francisco-based poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph in “the break/s” told in verse, dance and film, March 26-28; Canada’s Compagnie Marie Chouinard in the dance work “Orpheus and Eurydice” April 17-19; and Chicago Chamber Musicians in “Strange News” May 8. Tickets go on sale July 1.
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