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Wednesday, February 4 - Columbia University, International Affairs Building,
NYC
The East Central European Center of Columbia University
The Consulate General of Hungary and The Hungarian Cultural Center
presented
AN EVENING WITH GÁBOR
GÖRGEY
HUNGARIAN NOVELIST, PLAYWRIGHT AND POET
Photos: Krisztina Fazekas
Gábor Görgey
Brian Murray
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Esteemed actor and Drama
Desk Award winner BRIAN MURRAY read excerpts
from LAST REPORT FROM ATLANTIS by GÁBOR GÖRGEY, the
distinguished Hungarian novelist, playwright, poet, and former
Minister of Culture. The two hilarious,
chilling and poignant excerpts (translated by
Ivan Sanders and Eugene Brogyanyi) center around the
scion of a Hungarian aristocratic family and his adventures
under the vicissitudes of Communism, as well as
in the world that emerged after its fall.
BRIAN MURRAY recently
appeared in Beckett/Albee with Marian Seldes. His Broadway credits
include The Crucible (Tony nomination), Uncle Vanya (Drama Desk
nomination), The Little Foxes (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination), A
Small Family Business, Racing Demon, Black Comedy, Noises Off (Drama
Desk Award), Da, Sleuth, All in Good Time, and Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are Dead (Tony Nomination). Off Broadway he appeared as
Falstaff in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Merry
Wives of Windsor, and as Claudius in Hamlet which was also televised
for PBS. Other Off-Broadway credits include the acclaimed production
of Travels With My Aunt, Ashes (Obie Award), The Jail Diary of Albie
Sachs, Mike Nichols' production of The Knack, and Edward Albee's The
Play About the Baby (Obie Award). Mr. Murray starred in several
productions in London's West End before joining the Royal Shakespeare
Company for four seasons, where his many roles included Romeo,
Lysander, Cassio, and Edgar in Peter Brook's King Lear. Brian Murray
is the recipient of an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of
Performance. He has also directed on and off Broadway and in regional
theatres.
Source: Hungarian Cultural Center, NY |
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