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Lowlands
May
17
7:30 PM19:30
Theater

Lowlands

SPRING STAGE READINGS, REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH THEATER FESTIVAL

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.

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Brief Connections
May
28
8:00 PM20:00
Theater

Brief Connections

SPRING STAGE READINGS, REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH THEATER FESTIVAL

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.

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Any Spot with Marks Left Behind
Jun
3
7:30 PM19:30
Theater

Any Spot with Marks Left Behind

SPRING STAGE READINGS, REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH THEATER FESTIVAL

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.

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The Best Child in the World
Jun
14
7:30 PM19:30
Theater

The Best Child in the World

REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH THEATER FESTIVAL / PLAY

The story of the Roma girl who discovers at a very young age the differences of race, color and environment, but who manages to make her way through life and transform her complexes into determination and motivation, has the power of a therapeutic exercise.

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POOL
Jun
13
7:30 PM19:30
Theater

POOL

REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH THEATER FESTIVAL / DANCE PERFORMANCE

A collaborative fusion of performance, visual art, and documentary that explores the male gaze, self-objectification, and the way power shifts as we move between looking, seeing, and being seen.

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The Mystic Shimmer
Jun
10
7:30 PM19:30
Theater

The Mystic Shimmer

REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH THEATER FESTIVAL / DANCE PERFORMANCE

A hallucination, a dream, a life, a performance: conjectures and reflections on temporal efforts and their significance. What holds? What resists the bite of time? An interdisciplinary performance examining human ambition, embodied presence, and existential meaning.

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The Astronaut
Jun
8
7:30 PM19:30
Theater

The Astronaut

REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH THEATER FESTIVAL / STAGE READING

A tender exploration of a relationship between a father and his son. Through a series of monologues offering advice to his son, a Czechoslovakian refugee of the 1968 Prague Spring inadvertently traces the consequences of this historical event on his life, values, and personal relationships.

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Bowie in Warsaw
Jun
3
7:30 PM19:30
Theater

Bowie in Warsaw

REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH THEATER FESTIVAL / PLAY

The women of Warsaw tremble with the rumor of a strangler on the prowl. Behind their fear, unspoken secrets and traumas begin to surface. Set in the landscape of a true crime story from 1970s Poland, Bowie in Warsaw is an absurd comedy about the repression of self-expression and love in the Soviet era.

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Bowie in Warsaw
Jun
2
7:30 PM19:30
Theater

Bowie in Warsaw

REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH THEATER FESTIVAL / PLAY

The women of Warsaw tremble with the rumor of a strangler on the prowl. Behind their fear, unspoken secrets and traumas begin to surface. Set in the landscape of a true crime story from 1970s Poland, Bowie in Warsaw is an absurd comedy about the repression of self-expression and love in the Soviet era.

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The Steiner Bookstore
Apr
30
5:00 PM17:00
Theater

The Steiner Bookstore

SPRING STAGE READINGS

Stage reading of a play about the famous Steiner Antiquarian Bookshop in Bratislava, Slovakia. It takes place during the anti-Jewish repressions in the early 1940s in the Nazi Slovak state when the antiquarian bookshop was subject to Aryanization, meaning expropriation.

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Cabaret in Captivity
Apr
16
5:00 PM17:00
Theater

Cabaret in Captivity

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SPRING STAGE READINGS

Songs and sketches from Terezin from the anthology of rediscovered scripts, Performing Captivity, Performing Escape: Cabarets and Plays from the Terezin/Theresienstadt Ghetto, authored by Dr. Lisa Peschel. Full of satire, bitter humor, and hope, these pieces demonstrate how art became a vital survival technique for the inmates.

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Franz Kafka's Diaries
Mar
13
7:30 PM19:30
Theater

Franz Kafka's Diaries

STAGE READING, DISCUSSION

Acclaimed actor Josh Hamilton performs a dramatic reading of Franz Kafka’s Diaries, now published in a complete and newly translated edition by Ross Benjamin. A conversation between Benjamin and scholar Veronika Tuckerova will follow the reading.

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Audience
Sep
4
3:00 PM15:00
Theater

Audience

PUPPET THEATER

Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre version of Vaclav Havel’s classic autobiographical play. Featuring live actors and traditional marionettes, the one-act play follows Ferdinand Vanek, a distinguished playwright forced to work in a brewery because his writings have been banned by the Communist regime.

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Audience
Sep
3
7:30 PM19:30
Theater

Audience

PUPPET THEATER

Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre version of Vaclav Havel’s classic autobiographical play. Featuring live actors and traditional marionettes, the one-act play follows Ferdinand Vanek, a distinguished playwright forced to work in a brewery because his writings have been banned by the Communist regime.

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Audience
Sep
2
7:30 PM19:30
Theater

Audience

PUPPET THEATER

Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre version of Vaclav Havel’s classic autobiographical play. Featuring live actors and traditional marionettes, the one-act play follows Ferdinand Vanek, a distinguished playwright forced to work in a brewery because his writings have been banned by the Communist regime.

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Audience
Sep
1
7:30 PM19:30
Theater

Audience

PUPPET THEATER

Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre version of Vaclav Havel’s classic autobiographical play. Featuring live actors and traditional marionettes, the one-act play follows Ferdinand Vanek, a distinguished playwright forced to work in a brewery because his writings have been banned by the Communist regime.

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