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PRESERVING CZECH AND SLOVAK CULTURE IN NEW YORK CITY SINCE 1891
PRESERVING CZECH AND SLOVAK CULTURE IN NEW YORK CITY SINCE 1891
BBLA member organizations host some of the best events in the city—concerts, festivals, lectures, and film screenings—at Manhattan’s Bohemian National Hall.
In this theater workshop, twelve scenes are connected by a certain kind of extreme, exploring relationships, stereotypes, uncertainties, and tensions through language cut to the bone and silence that speaks.
A monodrama inspired by the true story of Dmitry Bogrov, a Ukrainian-Jewish lawyer, double agent, and revolutionary who assassinated Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin at the Kyiv Opera House in 1911.
Inspired by the volatile lives of Zdena Salivarova and Josef Skvorecky—two exceptional novelists and translators—the play examines their creative work and hardships under communist Czechoslovakia, as well as their subsequent emigration to Toronto, Canada.