Awesome: an ongoing arts festival (through March 31) celebrating the role of artists in “ripping holes in the Iron Curtain”. I want to see every production, go to every reading.
Daniel Gerould, author of an anthology of plays from this time called Playwrights Before the Fall, says:
âWhat we had in theater in Eastern Europe was a measure of what was going on beneath the surface of life in these countries. Through the arts you felt the tremors and shocks of change that might have initially been imperceptible. And it enabled people to get an inkling of what was to come.â
Fantastic-sounding festival. Speaking of playwrights, politics and revolutions (velvet or otherwise), here’s a post I wrote about Vaclav Havel, one of my heroes. Naturally, his work is represented in the festival.
