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Event
Raw Onion: ¡Onion de Mayo!
The Onion -- America's Finest News Source
Comes to Life at L'Etage Cabaret
on Sunday, May 5, 2013 for ¡Onion de Mayo!
Our favorite characters from the pages of The Onion, America's Finest News Source bring their opinions to the stage when the annual IRC fundraiser celebrating the weekly satirical newspaper known for its outrageous and absurd humor comes to town on Cinco de Mayo. Proceeds from the one-night only show will support the second production of the IRC's 2013 season, Franz Kafka's The Castle, which will be performed as part of the 2013 Philadelphia Live Arts and Fringe Festival. ¡Onion de Mayo! will have three performances at 6:00 pm, 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm.
The 70-minute ¡Onion de Mayo! comprised of all-new (never before performed by the IRC) material, is a gathering of actors familiar to IRC audiences, including John D'Alonzo, Greg Day, Jesse Delaney, Michael Dura, Tomas Dura, Mark Knight, Ethan Lipkin, Shamus McCarty, Lou Seitchik and David Stanger, along with IRC first-timers Ed Miller, Jerry Rudasill, Daniel Student and Christian Prins Coen.
Tickets to ¡Onion de Mayo! are $20 and are available online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/328721 or www.idiopathicridiculopathyconsortium.org, or by calling 215 285-0472.
Franz Kafka (1883 1924) was a Czechoslovakian-born German-language novelist and short story writer, regarded by critics as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Kafka's works The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle depict the seemingly endless frustrations in man's attempts to stand against the system while pursuing a futile and unobtainable goal. The Castle is Franz Kafka's most humanistic work, virtually the only one in which the protagonist forms close relationships with other characters.
Hilarious, dark and surreal, The Castle explores alienation and bureaucracy, and the seemingly endless frustrations of one man's attempts to stand firm against the system while pursuing a futile and unobtainable goal.
Franz Kafka died prior to finishing The Castle, while battling tuberculosis. Max Brod, Kafka's long-time friend and editor, was given the instructive to destroy all Kafka's works upon his death; instead, Brod completed The Castle based on Kafka's notes and saw to its publication in German in 1926.
2013 marks The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's seventh season presenting and preserving difficult and rarely-produced absurdist works from authors around the globe. In 2012, The IRC presented critically-acclaimed sold out productions of Russian novelist & playwright Nikolai Gogol's Marriage: An Improbable Occurrence in Two Acts and heralded Polish author Witold Gombrowicz's Ivona, Princess of Burgundia.
Praise for the IRC's production of Ivona includes The Philadelphia Inquirer: "the IRC's spellbinding production compresses the epic scope of an opera into a microcosm of human malice... engaging and funny and insightful" and Stage Magazine: "(Ivona) offers wisdom through absurditythe absurdist-themed Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium soundly reaffirmed their position as the foremost purveyors of the genre in Philadelphia." Ivona was featured in the Editor's Note of the Fall Preview edition of The Philadelphia Weekly: "there's a strange sort of spiritual affirmation that somehow bubbles up from it all, in part because it's hard not to see Ivona as a sort of Georgian-period Sweet Dee Reynolds from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, sufficiently smarter than everyone around her".
The Castle will operate under a contract with Actors' Equity Association. The IRC is a 501C3 non-profit organization, and a member of The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. The IRC's 2013 season is funded in part by generous grants from Wyncote Foundation, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund, The Samuel S. Fels Fund and The Charlotte Cushman Foundation.
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LocationL'Etage Cabaret (above Beau Monde Restuarant) (View)
625 S. 6th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147
United States
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| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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