Centaur Battle at San Jacinto

Centaur Battle at San Jacinto is an abstraction on the events and the historical figures surrounding the fateful Battle of San Jacinto (1836), in which General Sam Houston and the Texan army won nearly one million square miles of territory for the United States from Mexico by slaughtering 630 Mexicans in 18 minutes, ignoring repeated orders to ceasefire,” according to the show's production notes.

Centaur Battle... dissects, explodes, examines, and questions the universal themes of masculinity, leadership, and the eternal human tendency towards extreme violence.

2:00 minutes CENTAUR BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO by Ruth Margraff directed by Ralph Pena, music by Nikos Brisco stills from Fordham/Lincoln Center production October 4-12, 2012 soundtrack: "Arrow Willow for Crazy Horse" warcry sung by Nikos Brisco Joey Mendoza is set designer; Becky Bodurtha is costume designer; Chad McArver is lighting designer; David Van Tieghem is sound designer; and Tim Zay is fight choreographer. The Fordham College Theater Program at Lincoln Center, which is chaired by two-time Obie Award-winning actor and director Matthew Maguire, opens its newest season, tackling extremism as theme, with the New York premiere of Ruth Margraff’s “Centaur Battle of San Jacinto” (an extended barroom brawl) at Pope Auditorium at Fordham College, 113 West 60th Street at Columbus Ave. NYC Directed by another Obie Award-winning director Ralph Peña, "'Centaur Battle...' is an abstraction on the events and the historical figures surrounding the fateful Battle of San Jacinto (1836), in which General Sam Houston and the Texan army won nearly one million square miles of territory for the United States from Mexico by slaughtering 630 Mexicans in 18 minutes, ignoring repeated orders to ceasefire," according to the show's production notes. “Centaur Battle...” dissects, explodes, examines, and questions the universal themes of masculinity, leadership, and the eternal human tendency towards extreme violence. Its cast, playing multiple roles, include Anna Crivelli, Quinn Coughlin, Dan Kleinmann, Marshal Thurman, Tom Feeney, and Emily Stout. http://broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Flash-Fordhams-CENTAUR-BATTLE-OF-SAN-JACINTO-Now-Thru-1012-20121011 full video archive available at Fordham University Libraries here: http://digital.library.fordham.edu/u?/VIDEO,333

Credits

Written by Ruth Margraff
Directed by Ralph Pena

Cast
Anna Crivelli
Quinn Coughlin
Dan Kleinmann
Marshal Thurman
Tom Feeney
and
Emily Stout.

Music by Nikos BriscoSet
Designer: Joey Mendoza
Costume Designer: Becky Bodurtha
Lighting Designer: Chad McArver
Sound Designer: David Van Tieghem
Fight Choreographer: Tim Zay

Premiered at Fordham College Theater Program at Lincoln Center, NYC