New Music Theatre Presents The Havel Project at Dupont Underground
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Tuesday, Oct 29, 2019 8pm - 10pm
Location
Dupont Underground
19 Dupont Circle NW
Details
The production is designed to acknowledge the courage and the camaraderie that conjoined in the original stagings, called “apartment performances.” Havel and other publicly banned artists found this radical solution as a way to share their works with their audiences as private living room performances. The performances were known for their intimacy, their sly in-jokes about notable Czech artists (including Havel himself taking on the role of Vaněk), and their tongue-in-cheek pokes at the Soviet-controlled country. The play exposes life under a totalitarian regime and the thin line between acquiescence and culpability, between comedy and creepy terror.
Doors open at 7:30pm and the performance stars at 8pm
