Award-winning Jamaican actor and singer Dianne Dixon has joined the solid of the American premiere of the psychological stage drama Goodbye, Doctor. The play, authored by famend playwright and psychoanalyst Betty Milan, can be directed by Brazilian Debora Baladini, the Government Director of the New York Metropolis-based Brazilian theatre firm Group Dot BR.
Goodbye, Physician can have a restricted run at The Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at A.R.T./New York Theatres from Thursday, October 24, by Sunday, November 3. Dixon will carry out alongside a gifted solid that features Barbara Riethe, Jerry Topitzer, and Ian Melamed. Riethe and Melamed are additionally co-producers of the play by Psykout Productions.
Set in Seventies Paris and primarily based on a real story, Goodbye, Physician is a gripping psychological drama that explores the complexities of the thoughts and soul. The narrative follows Seriema (performed by Riethe), a Brazilian lady of Lebanese descent, who seeks refuge within the French capital after enduring the trauma of two miscarriages and a wedding breakdown. In her quest for therapeutic, she begins psychoanalysis with the controversial psychiatrist Jacques Lacan (Topitzer), whose unorthodox strategies compel her to confront deeply buried reminiscences and feelings. As their periods progress, each Seriema and Lacan wrestle with their inside demons.
The play is impressed by the real-life experiences of Milan throughout her periods with the legendary Lacan and involves New York after profitable runs in France and Latin America. Dixon takes on the position of Maria, Seriema’s religious mom determine, whose affect lingers in Seriema’s ideas and actions all through her life.
Dixon’s look in Goodbye, Physician follows her latest portrayal of Queen Rasta within the acclaimed American premiere of Alwin Bully’s McBee on the Jamaica Performing Arts Middle (JPAC) in June. Initially from Jamaica, Dixon immigrated to the US as a youngster and made her New York stage debut within the comedy 9 to 5 Authorities Model on the Producers Membership.
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Since then, she has established herself as one of the crucial revered Caribbean artists in New York, with stage credit that embrace Ain’t Misbehavin’ on the Black Spectrum Theatre, An Previous Girl Remembers on the Billie Vacation Theatre, and Not About Eve at The Nationwide Black Theatre Pageant. She additionally featured within the Off-Broadway productions of Falling in Love With Mr. Dellamort and Flambeaux, which garnered six Audelco Awards for Excellence in Black Theater, together with Greatest Musical.
Dixon made her Public Theater debut within the staged studying of Trey Anthony’s How Black Moms Say I Love You, directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon. Her on-screen credit embrace the Emmy Award-winning net sequence We Are New York and the cable drama Echoes of a Misplaced Son. Her movie work contains Jamaican Mafia, Victims, and the quick function Caribbean Queen, which premiered on the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) as a part of the NewFest Movie Pageant.
Amongst her many accolades, Dixon is a two-time Audelco Award nominee for Greatest Supporting Actress for her performances in Dinner On the Manse and Jamaica. She has additionally acquired the Caribbean Life Influence Award for her contributions to the Caribbean group in New York, in addition to a New York Metropolis Council Award and Proclamation for Excellence in The Arts.
Goodbye, Physician can be carried out Tuesdays by Saturdays at 7:30 PM and Sundays at 2:30 PM from October 24 by November 3. The Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre is situated at A.R.T./New York Theatres, 502 West 53rd Avenue, New York, NY 10019.
