La MaMa Announces Its Fall Season

An adaptation of the Flann O’Brien novel “The Third Policeman” and new works from the director Irina Brook and the playwright Chiori Miyagawa are part of the fall season at La MaMa, the downtown theater company announced on Tuesday.

The season begins with Ms. Brook’s production of “Shakespeare’s Sister (or La Vie Matérielle)” (Sept. 20 to Oct. 6), an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s “Room of One’s Own” and Marguerite Duras’s “La Vie Matérielle.” The piece is set at a fantasy dinner party where five women prepare food, sing and dance, and features the Obie-winning actress Winsome Brown as Woolf and the former French Vogue editor Joan Juliet Buck as Duras.

“I Came to Look for You on Tuesday” (Sept. 26 to Oct. 13), written by Ms. Miyagawa (“I Have Been to Hiroshima Mon Amour”) and directed by Alice Reagan, explores themes of loss and reunion during times of natural disaster and war. A production of the Re/Union Company, the piece was inspired by messages for missing family members left on a wall after the powerful earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011.

Nomad Theatrical Company’s “Third Policeman” (Dec. 6-15) is a stage adaptation of the surreal comic satire by Mr. O’Brien, an Irish author who died in 1966. Written between 1939 and 1940 and published after the author’s death, the book is set in rural Ireland, and is narrated by a man involved in a strange killing.

Other works coming to La MaMa this fall include Maureen Fleming’s “B. MADONNA” (Oct. 17 to Nov. 3), a multimedia piece inspired by the myth of Persephone, with text by David Henry Hwang and music by Philip Glass; “The Schizophrenic Hamlet,” (Oct. 17 to Nov. 3), a new work by the Italian director Dario D’Ambrosi and his Teatro Patologico; “The Republic” (Nov. 29 to Dec. 15), an interdisciplinary adaptation of Plato’s text from the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater; and Lee Breuer’s pop opera “La Divina Caricatura Part 1, The Shaggy Dog” (Dec. 6 to 22), a co-production with St. Ann’s Warehouse.