Join us for the Spring Weekend's presentation of three stage readings - Audience, The Meeting, and Infiltration – centered on Ferdinand Vanek, a classic character in Vaclav Havel’s plays and his fictional alter ego, who, like the late playwright-turned-statesman Havel, worked in a brewery before being jailed as a political dissident. Program: Audience by Vaclav Havel, translated by Jan Novak…
A conversation with Pénélope Bagieu, Brian Keith Jackson, Elif Shafak, and Takis Würger. Moderated by Rebecca Falkoff. Personal reinvention is a constant and mysterious journey. A trip overseas, a disruption in the culture of our home country, or the impact of a powerful book can shift our views. How do new discoveries and unfamiliar settings cause us to (re)examine and (re)interpret our inner…
A conversation with Jennifer Clement and Willivaldo Delgadillo. Moderated by Oliver Laughland. As rage surrounding America's southern boundary intensifies, fresh visions emerge from writers whose unique experiences span both sides of the border. Jennifer Clement's novel Prayers for the Stolen exposes the horror of women kidnapped and trafficked by drug cartels south of the border, while her Gun Love dives into…
Please note: This event will take place at The Church of St. Francis Xavier (46 West 16th Street). Members of Casa Italiana will receive a special code via E-mail for free admission. Salon Sanctuary Concerts and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò present I Sacri Musicali Affetti Barbara Strozzi Jessica Gould, soprano Elena Biscuola, mezzo-soprano Paula Chateauneuf & Catherine Liddell, theorbo Christa Patton,…
Assault often fades into painful silence—but a group of pioneering authors have placed survivors at the center of their own narratives. Idra Novey’s Those Who Knewexamines a popular politician’s sexual misdeeds and the alarming quiet surrounding those brutal acts. Scholastique Mukasonga’s works of memoir and fiction address the genocide that ravaged her family and countless others across her native Rwanda.…
Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival’s Spring Weekend free presentation of a stage reading of SUNFLOWER, a play by Hungarian playwright Andrea Pass. In SUNFLOWER, a young couple with a dysfunctional marriage and illness taking over their lives faces losing their home. Familiar situations, and scenes from contemporary life, become a series of revealing snapshots through the eyes of adults as…
directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska as a part of Panorama Europe festival Panorama Europe 2019, the essential festival of new and vital European cinema, co-presented by Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and the members of European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) will include screenig of a Polish film, Fugue, directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska. Her debut film, The Lure, a…
Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival’s Spring Weekend presents "I Hope I Wouldn’t Meet Myself Today," a play by Romanian writer Herta Muller, Nobel Prize recipient, set in Eastern Europe before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lili, the main character, works in a Romanian factory making fine men's overcoats for export to Italy. Her love life is a mess -…
Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival’s Spring Weekend presents a stage reading of "Urn on an Empty Stage" by Slovak playwright Martin Cicvak. In "Urn on an Empty Stage," Martin Cicvak brilliantly explores the dynamics between authoritative figures and their “victims,” particularly women. Using the Greek myth of Europa, the play challenges the issues of gender equality and the status of…
In honor of Vaclav Havel, The Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival, presents Spring Weekend: a showcase of emerging Czech, Hungarian, Polish, and Slovak playwrights whose work grapples with the social and political issues of today. The plays have been translated into English and will be brought to life in staged readings by local New York performers and directors. The program…