Visniec at Playwrights Before the Fall

Playwrights Before the Fall: Eastern European Drama in Times of Revolution Presented by The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in collaboration with the Czech Center, Hungarian Cultural Center, Polish Cultural Institute, Romanian Cultural Institute, and Consulate General of Slovenia

RCINY brings playwright Matei Visniec to the launch of the first multi-author international anthology of Eastern European plays published in English by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. The event includes staged readings from the five plays featured in the anthology and a panel on the playwrights' role in the theatrical revolution of the 1980s.
Edited by Daniel Gerould, the anthology includes a preface by Dragan Klaić and features plays by Sławomir Mrożek, Portrait (Portret); Karel Steigerwald, Sorrow, Sorrow, Fear, the Rope, and the Pit (Hoře, hoře, starch, opratka a jáma); Gyorgy Spiró, Csirkefej (Chickenhead); Matei Vişniec, Horses at the Window (Caii la fereastră); and Dušan Jovanović, Military Secret (Vojna tajna).

MON, November 16, 6:30 pm
MARTIN E. SEGAL THEATRE CENTER
The Graduate Center CUNY

[part of Performing Revolution]