Photo gallery for "The Buddha Play" New York

ASCETIC PRODUCTIONS
AND BARUCH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
PRESENTS THE NEW YORK PREMIERE OF
THE BUDDHA PLAY
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY EVAN BRENNER
DIRECTED BY DAVID FUHRER
BEGINNING PERFORMANCES
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH
AT BARUCH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

New York, NY- August 2009. Ascetic Productions and Baruch Performing Arts Center has announced that the New York premiere of “The Buddha Play”, written and performed by Evan Brenner and directed by David Fuhrer, will begin Sept. 10th at Baruch Performing Arts Center at Baruch College, entrance on East 25th Street between Lexington and 3rd Avenues.

PROGRAM: The life of the Buddha in his own words - the evolution of his thought, his triumphs, and the rarely portrayed tragedy at the end of his life. The man we know as the Buddha lived in Northern India around 500BC and introduced the teaching known as Buddhism. Approximately 300 years after his death, an extensive oral history of the movement was written down, carried and copied throughout Asia, and this canon became the taproot of the entire Buddhist tradition. Framed in a most unusual and personal context, The Buddha Play brings to the stage these authentic texts to enact the extraordinary life of the man, start to finish.

The Buddha considered his own life a model for all our spiritual struggles saying, "He who knows me, knows the Dharma." It's no dry tale -- The Buddha's life stands among the great archetypal adventure stories.

After premiering in Boston to sold out houses and outstanding newspaper and television reviews, “The Buddha Play” September 10th in New York at Baruch Performing Arts Center at Baruch College.

Performances Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2pm. Through November 1st.

Tickets available online at www.baruch.cuny.edu/bpac or by calling (646) 312-4085 or 5073.
General admission is $50. Student admission is $25
http://thebuddhaplay.com