PLAY, TALKBACK, AFTERPARTY

Truth exposes a lack thereof: an existence fraught with the absence of the sacred, devoid of any mystery, purpose or metaphysical worth. While the main character of Truth is not present, the scene is preoccupied with striving for knowledge and new creation, as well as by aggression, survival instinct and usurpation that claims a monopoly on truth.

PLAY, TALKBACK, AFTERPARTY

Woman Alone unveils the story of Maria and the elements of her domestic life that entrap her. She grapples to cope with the pressure of her crazy father-in-law while raising a baby and dealing with a voyeuristic neighbor. Will Maria, an embodiment of physically, verbally or non-verbally abused women,find the courage to escape?

PANEL DISCUSSION

Pros and Cons of Private and Government Support for the Arts is a panel discussion moderated by Frank Hentschker, Executive Director at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the CUNY Graduate Center, with Attila Szabo, Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute of the Petofi Literary Museum, Agata Adamiecka-Sitek, Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, and Tea Alagic, Head of the MFA Directing Department at The New School for Drama.

PANEL DISCUSSION

How are the potentialities of theater conceived to fulfill an ideological design, how is ideology transmitted as theater to shape material and symbolic forms of experience? Discussion moderated by Hana Worthen, Barnard College, Columbia University, with Martina Peckova Cerna, Arts and Theatre Institute in Prague, Zuzana Ulicianska, Theatre Institute in Bratislava, and Thomas Kriegsmann.