Off-Broadway's Garden of Earthly Delights Extends

Martha Clarke’s restaging of her now-classic piece Garden of Earthly Delights will extend its run at off-Broadway’s Minetta Lane Theatre. A theatrical interpretation of the classic triptych painting by Heironymous Bosch, the show was originally scheduled to close on January 18. It will now run through March 1, directed and choreographed by Clarke, with an original score by Richard Peaslee.

A 70-minute piece that plays without intermission, Garden of Earthly Delights uses music, dance and trapeze art to dramatize Bosch’s surreal painting, which presents three sides of the human experience, from the innocence of Adam & Eve to the chaos and debauchery of life on earth before ending with a vision of hell.

The original production of Garden of Earthly Delights premiered at St. Clement's in 1984 before opening at the Minetta Lane in 1987, where its stylized aerial effects were hailed as groundbreaking. The show was honored with a Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, an Obie Award for Peaslee’s score, and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for choreography. It returned to the Minetta Lane for the current revival, which opened in November.

Garden of Earthly Delights features Sophie Bortolussi, Benjamin G. Bowman, Daniel Clifton, Marjorie Folkman, General McArthur Hambrick, Whitney V. Hunter, Gabby Malone, Jennifer Nugent, Matt Rivera, Jenny Sandler, Isadora Wolfe. Music is provided by Wayne Hankin winds, Egil Rostad cello and Arthur Solari music director, percussion. The production includes set and lighting design by Christopher Akerlind and costume design by Jane Greenwood.