Michael Pennington and Natasha Parry
Theatre for a New Audience’s 30th Anniversary Season will culminate with the New York premiere of the C.I.C.T./Théatre des Bouffes du Nord production of Love Is My Sin, the sonnets of William Shakespeare adapted by Peter Brook and performed by Natasha Parry and Michael Pennington.
Love Is My Sin, which premiered in Paris at Bouffes du Nord in April 2009, features thirty-one sonnets chosen by Mr. Brook. “To choose between 154 sonnets, I needed to find a dramatic continuity and was guided by the hidden tensions that arise in a relationship between two people,” writes Mr. Brook. “Love Is My Sin allows us to penetrate into Shakespeare’s own, most secret life. It is his private diary, in which we find his intimate questions, his jealousy, his passions, his guilt, his despair. Above all, he searches to discover for himself the deep meaning of being attracted by a man, by a woman or even by the act of writing itself. This is neither a play nor a poetry recital. It catches the actors in human relationships. Then, at the very end, they become speakers for Shakespeare himself who wrote prophetically that his verse is stronger than time and will last forever.”
Love Is My Sin begins previews on March 25 and runs through April 17 at The Duke on 42nd Street, a New 42nd Street © project, 229 West 42nd Street. For tickets and more information, please visit http://www.tfana.org/.