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The performance will be at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Schlumberger Theater, 78 Sunset Lane.
The play is the true and untold story of the prodigy Nannerl, an acclaimed keyboard virtuoso and composer who performed throughout Europe with her brother Amadeus until she was 12 years old.
The script is sculpted from the Mozart family’s humorous and heartbreaking letters. As Nannerl sits in an opulent dress, hair piled high upon her head, the sweet smell of perfume and clouds of dusting powder rising from the stage, her story transports the audience into a world of outsized beauty and delight -- but also of overwhelming restrictions and prejudice.
Sylvia Milo is the playwright and performer of the play, which is by directed Isaac Byrne.
"I choreographed Sylvia's gestures and silhouette to place her accurately in the Baroque Period shaping the deportment, courtly manners and gestures for this artist’s extraordinary balletic hands," says choreographer Janice Orlandi.
The story unfolds accompanied by an original score by Nathan Davis and Phyllis Chen of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival. The costumes are designed by Magdalena Dabrowska of the National Theater of Poland.
The festival continues with:
- The Bread and Puppet Theatre at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19.
- "Gabriel" at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20. The first public reading of the provocative Gabriel concerning choice: Who has it, who wants it, who doesn't, from the Virgin Mary to the present day.
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The Drilling Company at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20. It includes actor and artistic director Hamilton Clancy, of "Orange is the New Black" fame. The group is back with its long-running hit comedy, "The Norwegians."
Visit the website www.chekhovfestival.com for individual tickets at $15 each or $30 for the entire festival. Call 203-431-2774 for reservations and additional information.
In 1939, Russian-born actor Michael Chekhov established the Chekhov Ridgefield School in a Connecticut barn.There, he taught classes and honed the Chekhov Method, an approach to acting that has influenced actors from Yul Brynner to Johnny Depp.
The nonprofit Chekhov International Theatre Festival was created to honor this innovator and to bring live, professional theater to Ridgefield, Chekhov's adopted home.
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