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The world-renowned La MaMa Cantata musical, a pioneer of the Off-Off Broadway movement, was staged at Bahçeşehir University.
La MaMa Cantata at BAU
Ellen Stewart founded La MaMa in 1961 and was known as "MaMa" by the artists she nurtured. La MaMa, regarded as a pioneer of the Off-Off Broadway movement, depicts the art scene of the 1960s.
La MaMa Cantata was written and composed by Tony Award nominee Elizabeth Swados . In the musical, Elizabeth Swados used the words and experiences of La MaMa's founder Ellen Stewart herself. The musical tells the long and miraculous history of La MaMa. In the musical, Swados shares with us Stewart's tireless spirit, her faith and her love of art.
PIONEER OF OFF-OFF BROADWAY
In the 1950s and 1960s, when new horizons were opening, Ellen came to New York and, achieving the impossible as a Black woman, provided a much-needed creative environment for Sam Shepard, Tom O'Horgan, Lanford Wilson, Leonard Melfi, Paul Foster, Tom Eyen, Jean Claude van Itallie, Maria Irene Fornes and Harvey Fierstein, Tadeusz Kantor, Peter Brook, Andrei Serban, Kazuo Ohno and many other artists.
La MaMa Cantata was directed by Kris Kukul , and many members of the chorus took on the role of Ellen in the musical. La MaMa Cantata tells how Ellen's many different facets, her passions, her joy, her provocative sense of humor and her endurance created a world theater that rose above all forms of racial discrimination, economic struggle and political conflict, and how she continues to be a guide for artists around the world.
LA MAMA CANTATA
La MaMa Founder: Ellen Stewart
La MaMa Artistic Director: Mia Yoo
Directed and Composed by: Elizabeth Swados
Music Director and Arranger: Kris Kukul
Musician: Eric Read
Video: Theo Cote
Production Manager: Kaori Fujiyabu
Translation: Zişan Uğurlu
Cast: Rachael Duddy, Molly Hager, Roe Hartrampf, Tom Hennes, Starr Busby, Preston Martin, Alicia Olatuja and Hannah Whitney
