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“I like to say that it was Harold Pinter who first got me into the theater and Tom Stoppard who kept me there...”
COMING SOON
Excerpt from the John Stokes' TLS Review:
"Directing, as Perloff conceives of it, “is an iterative process in which a script slowly reveals itself on stage through rigorous examination and the freedom to play and fail until solutions are reached which feel true to the spirit of the text”. The question is therefore: “How does a director uncover the laws governing the unique and mysterious world of a given play?” These “laws” or “rules of play” are the operating principles within a work that will allow it to generate a theatrical event; they are discovered in rehearsal and realized in performance. They are not universal and they shift with the shifting times, sometimes fundamentally. Stoppard, for instance, has said of Pinter that “he changed the ground rules” so you could no longer necessarily believe what a character might say, even on the most mundane level...."
Excerpt from American Theater:
"Fragments, Loss, and Language: On the Jewishness of Pinter and Stoppard
In her new book Pinter and Stoppard: A Director’s View (Methuen Drama), Carey Perloff explores her collaborations and discoveries in the rehearsal room alongside two great English playwrights, with an eye to what future interpreters can learn about these writers and their work. In this excerpt, which has been condensed and edited for this context, she hones in one of Pinter and Stoppard’s less noted commonalities."
From The New Yorker...
The October 6 review in The New Yorker of Tom Stoppard's play Leopoldstadt cites Carey Perloff's new book Pinter and Stoppard: A Director's View
"Stoppard’s frequent collaborator Carey Perloff recently published “Pinter and Stoppard: A Director’s View,” and she spends a chapter discussing his not quite forgotten, always sort of known Jewishness, the way it emerged in past work as stories about doubles and twins, or heritage that is torn down and lost. Her book helped me think about where Stoppard’s experience surfaces in Hermann, a man who both knows and does not know his true situation, a man who thinks he has won the coin toss while the coin is still in the air."
Excerpt from the Peter Marks' Review in the Washington Post:
“Home?,” staged in a newly renovated storefront space, the Corner at Whitman-Walker, reunites Ayoub with Carey Perloff, who directed her nearly three years ago to mesmerizing effect in Arena Stage’s Afghan play “A Thousand Splendid Suns.” They again prove to be a mutually catalyzing tea
Photo by Stan Barouh
CURRENT & UPCOMING WORK
DIRECTING/ ARTISTIC ADVISING
TINY THEATRICALS
“Rehearsing Greek Tragedy”:
A Five-Part Digital Series
debuts on Digital Theatre Plus March 2023
http://www.careyperloff.com/tiny-theatricals.html
THE LEHMAN TRILOGY
US Premiere
Written by Stefano Massini
Adapted into English by Ben Power
Huntington Theatre
Boston
June 13 - July 16, 2023
A WINTER'S TALE
The Shakespeare Company - Calgary
2022-2023 Season
https://www.shakespearecompany.com
JEKYLL & HYDE
Finland Ballet
Dramaturge
April 2023
WRITING
VIENNA, VIENNA, VIENNA
Finalist for the 2023 Jewish Plays Project
EDGARDO OR WHITE FIRE
Commissioned by Williamstown Theatre Festival
Finalist, O'Neill Playwrights Conference 2022
Workshop at
the Kiln
People’s Light Theater Company
Philadelphia
April 11-15, 2023
Directed by Yury Urnov
IF GOD WERE BLUE
Workshop at Playmaker’s Rep, January 2022
Reading at Roundabout Theatre Company, April 12, 2022
Directed by Vivienne Benesch
PINTER AND STOPPARD: A DIRECTOR'S VIEW
Bloomsbury Methuen Press 2022
DIRECTOR COMMISSIONS
Developing a new concept for THE OEDIPUS PLAYS
in collaboration with John Douglas Thompson
Seattle Repertory Theater, 2021-2024
IN DEVELOPMENT
HOME?
A New One-Woman Play
by Hend Ayoub
Staged Reading August 30, 2022 at 7:00
produced by Z Space, SF Playhouse and
Golden Thread Productions
HOME?
A New One-Woman Play
by Hend Ayoub
Workshop Production with
Voices Festival Productions,
Washington D.C.
November 3-13, 2022
THE TRIAL OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
by Alex Poch-Goldin
Workshop at
Bard on the Beach
Vancouver, BC
September 21-25, 2023
TEACHING
Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning
at the
University of San Francisco
"Secrets from the Rehearsal Room"
Mondays 1:00pm-2:40pm
Fall Semester 2022
https://www.fromminstitute.org
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Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in Henrik Ibsen's GHOSTS at Seattle Rep, a new translation by Paul Walsh, directed by Carey Perloff. Original Music by David Coulter, Scenery by Dane Laffrey, Costumes by David Reynoso, Lighting by Robert Wierzel, Sound by Victoria Deiorio, Photos by Bronwen Houck
Nikita Tewani, Albert Rubio III, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in Henrik Ibsen's GHOSTS at Seattle Rep, a new translation by Paul Walsh, directed by Carey Perloff. Original Music by David Coulter, Scenery by Dane Laffrey, Costumes by David Reynoso, Lighting by Robert Wierzel, Sound by Victoria Deiorio, Photos by Bronwen Houck
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Thom Sesma, Nikita Tewani, and David Strathairn in Henrik Ibsen's GHOSTS at Seattle Rep, a new translation by Paul Walsh, directed by Carey Perloff. Original Music by David Coulter, Scenery by Dane Laffrey, Costumes by David Reynoso, Lighting by Robert Wierzel, Sound by Victoria Deiorio, Photos by Bronwen Houck
David Strathairn and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in Henrik Ibsen's GHOSTS at Seattle Rep, a new translation by Paul Walsh, directed by Carey Perloff. Original Music by David Coulter, Scenery by Dane Laffrey, Costumes by David Reynoso, Lighting by Robert Wierzel, Sound by Victoria Deiorio, Photos by Bronwen Houck
SELECTED REVIEWS FOR GHOSTS
"This play should never be dismissed as being something written in the past, some old classical dusty thing on the shelf of dramatic literature, because things that happened in this play are present and applicable to I’d say almost any time in human history. … He was a radical playwright." - Seattle Times (Interview with David Strathairn)
"Seattle Rep's GHOSTS Resonates With Contemporary Power." - SeattleMet
https://www.seattlemet.com/sponsored/2022/03/ghosts-seattle-rep
"Stirring and layered performances..." - Broadway World
https://www.broadwayworld.com/seattle/article/BWW-Review-GHOSTS-at-the-Seattle-Rep-20220407
"Carey Perloff's production is highlighted by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio's performance as the family matriarch and, despite its age, proves that the play is just as relevant today as it was over a hundred years ago." - TheaterMania
https://www.theatermania.com/seattle-theater/reviews/ghosts-seattle-rep_93637.html
Los Angeles Times
–– Charles McNulty, 12/4/22
Best theater of 2022
"There were also several top-notch theater books that
deserve a shout-out.... Carey Perloff’s
“Pinter and Stoppard: A Director’s View”...
pulsated with theatrical sensibility and insight into the art form."