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IZ
the Continental-European Premiere of the
2003 Edinburgh Fringe Festival success
written by Oliver Emanuel
directed by Thomas Crawley
with Dave Moskin (Ben), Drew Sarich (Baz), Kyrre Kvam (Bez)
Assistant Directors: Adrienne Ferguson, Joanna Godwin-Seidl
Technical Design: Wolf Zöttl
Production Manager: Joanna Godwin-Seidl
Stage/House Managers: Adrienne Ferguson, Joanna Godwin-Seidl
Sound & Lighting: Anita Wolfartsberger
Teacher Materials: Juliet Najjar, Anita Aichinger
Facts
March 4-16, 2005
Monday-Saturday, 8.00 p.m.
Premiere: March 4
dietheater Konzerthaus
Lothringerstraße 20, 1030 Vienna
About the play
Being greeted with three young men in black suits and ties on a bare stage, one might think one is in for a sub-Tarantino gangster testimonial. Instead, IZ gives a mature look at bereavement that is full of emotional honesty. When the title character dies suddenly, the lives of the three men that loved her are altered completely: Iz is gone, but not forgotten. In fact she is making her lack of presence felt to Bez, Baz and Ben - two former lovers and her husband. In life Iz was the link between the three, but in death she is pulling them apart as grief and memory play tricks and they discover how hard it is to say that you really knew somebody. Iz has dominated each of the three, calling them her "Apostles" and by changing skilfully between monologue, conversation and fury, the three men realise how much she has defined them.
An assured piece of writing, Oliver Emanuel's clever and touching script is a physical manifestation of the three men's struggle to understand, communicate and reclaim the friendship that bound them, and the woman who is no longer with them.
"The believability of the relationships makes the piece enormously compelling... a real winner"
"has real style and an emotional intelligence rare on the Fringe"
About the author
Oliver Emanuel trained at the Workshop Theatre, Leeds, and on the creative writing MA at UEA and recently finished working as an assistant director at the King’s Head Theatre, London.
He has written and directed Porcelainliving, The Gambler and Gemini, written The Sacrifize and IZ and directed The Fire Play (summer 2004) for silver tongue theatre. He also co-manages the company.
Other writing includes: The Visions (in which he also appeared) and Rhapsody. Other directing includes: Baal, Parade, and Le Bouef sur le Toit.
As a freelance writer and dramaturge he has worked on many productions including Warcrime for The Wedding Collective and an original opera libretto for The Girl in the Red Dress.
Teachers
Teacher Material for all vienna theatre project productions is available in PDF format to download from this website. Please visit our Education section to find the required documents which are available free of charge.The material available includes background information about the author, the play, main themes, characters, reading suggestions, possible teaching objectives, dialogues for discussion, assignments and vocabulary (English-German).
For further enquiries please contact education@viennatheatreproject.at