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Book Presentation: Playwrights Before the Fall
Performing Revolution Festival
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center's Publication Wing presents its latest book project: Playwrights Before the Fall: Eastern European Drama in Times of Revolution. The anthology, edited by Daniel Gerould with a preface by Dragan Klaić, is the first multi-author international anthology of Eastern European plays to appear in English. Part of Performing Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts exhibition and festival marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism. The anthology features plays by Sławomir Mrożek, Karel Steigerwald, Gyorgy Spiró, Matei Vişniec, and Dušan Jovanović. Join us and Polish-American actress Elzbieta Czyzewska for staged readings of excerpts from the five plays, as well as a panel on the playwrights’ role in the theatrical revolution of the 1980s.
Presented with generous support from the Polish Cultural Institute New York , the Hungarian Cultural Center New York, the Consulate General of Slovenia, the Romanian Cultural Institute New York, and the Czech Center.
Performing Revolution is a performing arts festival marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in partnership with key New York City cultural organizations and academic institutions, November 2009-March 2010. www.performingrevolution.org
6:30 p.m., Monday, Nov 16, 2009
Martin E. Segal Theatre. Free!