Presented by Alliance for New Music-Theatre
Show Dates
Tuesday, Oct 29- 8 pm
Sunday, Nov 3 - 3 pm
Sunday, Nov 3 - 8 pm
Monday, Nov 4 – 8 pm
Tuesday, Nov 5 – 8 pm
Saturday, Nov 9 – 8 pm
Sunday, Nov 10 – 7 pm
Tuesday, Nov 12 – 8 pm
Wednesday, Nov 13, – 8 pm
Thursday, Nov 14, – 8 pm
Friday, Nov 15– 8 pm
Saturday, Nov 16, – 8 pm
Sunday, Nov 17 – 8 pm
Alliance for New Music-Theatre says:
Alliance for New Music-Theatre, the Theatre-in-Residence at Dupont Underground, kicks off its season with a double bill of Václav Havel’s Protest and our original music-theatre production Vanek Unleashed as part of the Embassy of the Czech Republic Mutual Inspirations Festival, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.
Protest
Vanek pays a visit to the lavish home of former colleague Stanek, who has invited the renowned activist to help him secure the release of a jailed radical musician, fiancé to his daughter. Vanek also seeks a favor: the influential man’s signature in a far-reaching protest. The play exposes life under a totalitarian regimeand the thin line between acquiescence and culpability and between absurdist comedy and creepy terror.
Protest
by Vaclav Havel
Directed by Susan Galbraith
With Drew Valins (Vanek) & David Millstone (Stanek),
Vanek Unleashed is a uniquely American response to the same, most beloved central character of Vanek. In this work, Alliance adds to the tradition that includes playwrights Samuel Beckett and Tom Stoppard of paying tribute to Havel by making Vanek a universal character. Audiences will find Vanek still struggling with issues of the slipperiness of identity as he careens imaginatively between prison and the more terrifying and absurd world outside. As he conjures up images of his wife, his friend and acting colleague Pavel Landovsky, and a young female admirer, he battles the spectre of totalitarian society that bears down upon him.
Vanek Unleashed
Written by Susan Galbraith
Music & Lyrics by Maurice Saylor
Directed by Susan Galbraith