Robert Wilson at BAM

Robert Wilson’s longstanding relationship with BAM goes back to the 1970 premiere production of The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud and includes the Philip Glass/Wilson epic Einstein on the Beach (1984, 1992, and 2012 Next Wave Festivals) and The CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down, Act V — the Rome Section (1986 Next Wave Festival), a work created with an international group of artists, including David Byrne. In addition to his collaborations with Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan (Woyzeck, 2002 Next Wave Festival) and Tom Waits/William Burroughs (Black Rider, 1993 Next Wave Festival), Wilson also created works in partnership with Lou Reed, including Time Rocker (1997 Next Wave Festival) and POEtry (2001 Next Wave Festival). The Temptation of St. Anthony (2004 Next Wave Festival) featured a collaboration with Sweet Honey in the Rock founder Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon. Wilson was at BAM with his retelling of Henrik Ibsen’s dramatic classic Peer Gynt (2006 Spring Season); Quartett (2009 Next Wave), Heiner Müller’s adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos’ Les Liaisons Dangereuses, featuring Isabelle Huppert; Threepenny Opera (2011 Next Wave); and Shakespeare’s Sonnets (2014 Next Wave). More recently, he joined forces with Mikhail Baryshnikov to create Letter to a Man (2016 Next Wave), which marked the second collaboration of the duo, the first was The Old Woman which appeared in the 2014 Spring Season.