Iranian-born American theatre director and playwright. Produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex and often confronted audiences with issues of race, class and AIDS.
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Reza Abdoh, 32, Theater Artist Known for Large-Scale Works
by Stephen Holden
from: The New York Times, New York city, NY, May 12, 1995:
Reza Abdoh, an Iranian-born creator of innovative large-scale stage spectacles known for their visual flamboyance and ferocious energy, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 32.
The cause was AIDS, said his companion, Brendan Doyle.
A theatrical visionary who was better known in Europe than in the United States, Mr. Abdoh was the director of Dar a Luz, a tribelike theater group based in New York and Los Angeles. For his young ensemble he devised four original productions between 1990 and 1994: "The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice" (1990), "Bogeyman" (1991), "The Law of Remains" (1992) and "Quotations From a Ruined City" (1993). These environmental theater pieces were phantasmagoric nightmares that used multimedia techniques and raw images of urban decay to bombard the senses.
His work in the United States was presented first in Los Angeles and later in New York, most often in unusual and unmarked spaces: storefronts, warehouses, side streets, industrial lofts, gymnasiums and disused hotels. In Europe, by contrast, his troupe was presented at major arts festivals and urban theater centers.
∼Reza Abdoh (February 23 1963 - May 12 1995)
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Reza Abdoh, 32, Theater Artist Known for Large-Scale Works
by Stephen Holden
from: The New York Times, New York city, NY, May 12, 1995:
Reza Abdoh, an Iranian-born creator of innovative large-scale stage spectacles known for their visual flamboyance and ferocious energy, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 32.
The cause was AIDS, said his companion, Brendan Doyle.
A theatrical visionary who was better known in Europe than in the United States, Mr. Abdoh was the director of Dar a Luz, a tribelike theater group based in New York and Los Angeles. For his young ensemble he devised four original productions between 1990 and 1994: "The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice" (1990), "Bogeyman" (1991), "The Law of Remains" (1992) and "Quotations From a Ruined City" (1993). These environmental theater pieces were phantasmagoric nightmares that used multimedia techniques and raw images of urban decay to bombard the senses.
His work in the United States was presented first in Los Angeles and later in New York, most often in unusual and unmarked spaces: storefronts, warehouses, side streets, industrial lofts, gymnasiums and disused hotels. In Europe, by contrast, his troupe was presented at major arts festivals and urban theater centers.
∼Reza Abdoh (February 23 1963 - May 12 1995)
Iranian-born American theatre director and playwright. Produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex and often confronted audiences with issues of race, class and AIDS.
_________
Reza Abdoh, 32, Theater Artist Known for Large-Scale Works
by Stephen Holden
from: The New York Times, New York city, NY, May 12, 1995:
Reza Abdoh, an Iranian-born creator of innovative large-scale stage spectacles known for their visual flamboyance and ferocious energy, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 32.
The cause was AIDS, said his companion, Brendan Doyle.
A theatrical visionary who was better known in Europe than in the United States, Mr. Abdoh was the director of Dar a Luz, a tribelike theater group based in New York and Los Angeles. For his young ensemble he devised four original productions between 1990 and 1994: "The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice" (1990), "Bogeyman" (1991), "The Law of Remains" (1992) and "Quotations From a Ruined City" (1993). These environmental theater pieces were phantasmagoric nightmares that used multimedia techniques and raw images of urban decay to bombard the senses.
His work in the United States was presented first in Los Angeles and later in New York, most often in unusual and unmarked spaces: storefronts, warehouses, side streets, industrial lofts, gymnasiums and disused hotels. In Europe, by contrast, his troupe was presented at major arts festivals and urban theater centers.
∼Reza Abdoh (February 23 1963 - May 12 1995)
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Reza Abdoh, 32, Theater Artist Known for Large-Scale Works
by Stephen Holden
from: The New York Times, New York city, NY, May 12, 1995:
Reza Abdoh, an Iranian-born creator of innovative large-scale stage spectacles known for their visual flamboyance and ferocious energy, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 32.
The cause was AIDS, said his companion, Brendan Doyle.
A theatrical visionary who was better known in Europe than in the United States, Mr. Abdoh was the director of Dar a Luz, a tribelike theater group based in New York and Los Angeles. For his young ensemble he devised four original productions between 1990 and 1994: "The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice" (1990), "Bogeyman" (1991), "The Law of Remains" (1992) and "Quotations From a Ruined City" (1993). These environmental theater pieces were phantasmagoric nightmares that used multimedia techniques and raw images of urban decay to bombard the senses.
His work in the United States was presented first in Los Angeles and later in New York, most often in unusual and unmarked spaces: storefronts, warehouses, side streets, industrial lofts, gymnasiums and disused hotels. In Europe, by contrast, his troupe was presented at major arts festivals and urban theater centers.
∼Reza Abdoh (February 23 1963 - May 12 1995)
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