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Postponed to 10 p.m. Oct. 28 in Sala Sinopoli screening of Shira Piven’s The Performance (previously scheduled for 9:30 p.m.).
The Performance
by Shira Piven
United States, 2023, 112′
Cast: Jeremy Piven, Robert Carlyle, Maimie McCoy, Adam Garcia, Isaac Gryn, Lara Wolf
Harold May, a virtuoso tip tap dancer and an American Jew, on a European tour with his troupe, gets an offer from a German that he can’t refuse: a handsome sum for arranging a performance in Berlin. The German doesn’t know that Harold is Jewish; the year happens to be 1937 and, once the troupe arrives in Germany, they learn they will be performing for Adolf Hitler himself. Shira Piven (director of Welcome to Me, starring Kristen Wiig, and Fully Loaded) directs this adaptation (co-written with Josh Salzberg) of a story by Arthur Miller, in which the energy of dance is intertwined with the portents of war. Starring Jeremy Piven and Robert Carlyle.
