Diversionary Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Amazons and Their Men, Jordan Harrison?s comically subversive play about German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.
The play goes behind the scenes of Riefenstahl's next masterpiece: an adaptation of a mythic Amazon Queen?s love-and-war affair with Achilles. But as World War II brews outside the doors of her sound stage, history?s most notorious filmmaker must choose between her artistic ideals and the fascist regime bankrolling her career.
Art and war collide in this darkly comic and subversive new play inspired by the life of Leni Riefenstahl, director of the Nazi propaganda film, "Triumph of the Will." Age limit: 16+
Admission/Cost:
Dates and times:
Ongoing until Sunday October 4, 2015
Thursdays - 7:00 PM
Fridays and Saturdays - 8:00 PM
Sundays - 2:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.diversionary.org
The play goes behind the scenes of Riefenstahl's next masterpiece: an adaptation of a mythic Amazon Queen?s love-and-war affair with Achilles. But as World War II brews outside the doors of her sound stage, history?s most notorious filmmaker must choose between her artistic ideals and the fascist regime bankrolling her career.
Art and war collide in this darkly comic and subversive new play inspired by the life of Leni Riefenstahl, director of the Nazi propaganda film, "Triumph of the Will." Age limit: 16+
Admission/Cost:
Dates and times:
Ongoing until Sunday October 4, 2015
Thursdays - 7:00 PM
Fridays and Saturdays - 8:00 PM
Sundays - 2:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.diversionary.org
