Staged reading of a contemporary tragicomedy, a paraphrase of the biblical brothers Cain and Abel, which tells a story of love, friendship and the hatred of otherness fueled by the far-right National Socialists.
Excerpts from Czech plays that use Vaclav Havel's character, Vanek, originally created as a stand-in for himself (a dissident playwright) during the Communist era in the former Czechoslovakia. The character was then adapted by numerous other Czech dissident playwrights, such as Pavel Landovsky and Pavel Kohout.
Staged reading of a comic thriller that mixes wall street-style misdeeds with mafia-style consequences, based on the real Estonian banking scandal in which Russian oligarchs used Estonian banks to launder their money into the EU.
Staged reading of a contemporary play dealing with the current war in Ukraine. A story about a Ukrainian family on a farm and a Russian soldier who stumbles into their farm.
Stage reading of a play that has the intonation of contemporary absurdism. The heroine finds herself in someone else’s apartment and doesn’t remember how she got there. Strange sounds out of nowhere, overly friendly hosts and uncomfortable silence.
A biting commentary on a Hungarian society marked by hatred, recrimination, and ultimately sorrow.
The threads of the past and present collide and interweave as four friends and their families take radically different paths in an effort to give themselves new lives after the dissolution of their home country.
Set in Ceausescu's Romania, Lowlands is both a memory play and surrealist vision animated from a child's perspective. It is with awe and love that we call on community to gather around this version of Herta Müller’s text on its 40th anniversary of a first publication. Together with her words we will celebrate the divine resistance that girls carry in their soul the world over for all of us.
A tragicomedy with an unhappy ending that can take place anywhere in the world. It shows the helplessness and loneliness of socially excluded people in cities where nature and public space are slowly disappearing.
A work of both real life and poetry: a story of a woman arrested and deported with her seven children to the Romanian wilderness under the communist regime of the 1950s. Andras Visky, author of Juliet, will introduce the work from Hungary via livestreaming.
A play about young people who live in a fake world of lifestyle magazines and TV shows. Overwhelmed by images of perfect happiness and true love, they can no longer actually recognize perfect happiness and true love.
Excerpts from four plays published in the anthology Exile Is My Home will be read on stage, followed by a discussion with the author, Domnica Radulescu. Among them will be the titular play, a sci-fi immigrant fairytale brilliantly combining absurdist comedy, irony, and suspense.
Kicking Down the Quilt deals with the spiritual condition of the contemporary, or hyper-contemporary —a society of today. The protagonists of this story have no specific gender, race, names, or age. They are democratically elected representatives of intimacy.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play Cost of Living examines two separate relationships that develop from places of mutual need. The first is between John, a wealthy and handsome graduate student with cerebral palsy, and his caregiver, the overworked, under-qualified and nearly homeless Jess. The second relationship includes the quadriplegic Ani and her unemployed ex-husband, Eddie.
Experience engaging contemporary performances from Central Europe. The 2019 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival explores the disappearance of borders between truth and lies. The festival consists of five international performances—three full plays, one dance performance and a behind-the-scene presentation—along with four special events.
