FREE PANEL DISCUSSION and SNEAK PEEK at a technical rehearsal

 

Dissidents and Subversives: from Gombrowicz to HELL MEETS HENRY HALFWAY

 

Communist Poland banned the work of literary bad-boy Witold Gombrowicz, a radically individualistic and openly bisexual champion of free speech. While in exile, he assumed a pseudonym and released a gothic serial called Possessed about a haunted castle, a mad prince, and a randy tennis coach. Who could translate this subversive bit of absurdism to the stage? Pig Iron, an American dance-clown-theatre ensemble with its own streak of anarchy…

This FREE panel is followed by a SNEAK PEEK at tech rehearsal for the show!

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2PM

Moderated by ALLEN KUHARSKI, Chair of the Department of Theater at Swarthmore College and dramaturg of HELL MEETS HENRY HALFWAY

PANELISTS:

ADRIANO SHAPLIN, playwright of HELL MEETS HENRY HALFWAY and Artistic Director of the Riot Group

TOM SELLAR, editor of THEATER magazine and faculty at the Yale School of Drama

KRYSTYNA ILLAKOWICZ, faculty at Yale University’s Department of Slavic Languages.

 

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Made possible by generous support from the Embassy of Poland and Georgetown University