About this Event
Playwrights: Abigail Henkin (Personal Speaker), Cole Kordus (Connection/less). Director: Celia Krefter. Cast: Emefa Dzodzomenyo, Joel Meyers, Geo Kester, Marie-Josee Bourelly, Surya Buddharaju, Joel Meyers. Sound Designer: Camilla Cox. Costume Designer: Kate Purdum.
The story of Abigail Henkin’s Personal Speaker follows Leona, a copywriter at a search engine optimization company who is swept up in her coworkers’ excitement about a new technology that promises users an improvement in their love life and job performance. Yet as the technology’s grip on the office tightens, miscommunication reigns, spurring Leona and her coworkers to recover their voices and themselves.
In Cole Kordus’s Connection/less , strangers aboard a halted subway train are obliged to turn off their phones and start communicating with each other. With naturally flowing language and dexterously constructed scenes, the author applies the themes from Vaclav Havel’s plays to depict the estrangement of people in our current reality.
The presented plays are the winners of the 2020 Best Mini-Drama Student Contest, organized annually by the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation in partnership with the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, Barnard College, Columbia University, and Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno.
The plays Personal Speaker and Connection/less are available . By purchasing one of the short, witty scripts, you will contribute to the continuation of life-changing opportunities for creative talents.
Free and open to the public. Suggested donation $10. RSVP through Eventbrite is required. More info about the festival: www.rehearsalfortruth.org.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions for indoor events, seating capacity is limited and on first-come first-served basis. Reservations must be made in advance. Wearing a face mask is required. No tickets will be available at the door, and anyone who has not received pre-event confirmation will be turned away.
ABOUT THE 2021 REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH THEATER FESTIVAL
honoring Vaclav Havel is organized by the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation and Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association. The program is co-produced by the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre, GOH Productions, Czech Center New York, Polish Cultural Institute New York, One-Eight/Daniel Irizarry Theater, Slovak Consulate General in New York, Palissimo Company, and Arts and Theatre Institute in Prague, Czech Republic.
The 2021 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and Council Member Ben Kallos. Additional support is by the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York, Ceskoslovenska obchodni banka – Member of the KBC Group, PACE.V4 – Performing Arts Central Europe, Visegrad Countries Focus, and International Visegrad Fund.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, New York, United States
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