special event at AATSEEL: staged reading of Slowacki's "Balladina"

[Jessie Labov]

The Polish Cultural Institute, The Ohio State University Department of
Slavic & East European Languages & Literatures, The Ohio State University
Center for Slavic & East European Studies, and Swarthmore College present:

a Special Event in association with the 2009 AATSEEL Conference

Juliusz Słowacki’s “Balladina” ("Balladyna")

A staged reading of Bill Johnston’s new translation into English

*Free and open to the public*

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009, 7:00pm –9:30pm
The Broad Street Ministry, 315 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia
(between Spruce & Delancey Sts)

Directed by Sarah Sanford 
and featuring actors from Philadelphia’s very own Pig Iron Theatre Company

This nineteenth-century Romantic drama is set in early medieval Poland, at
the time of the legendary Popiel princes who ruled with unmitigated cruelty.
What begins as a fantastic and comic love story between a chivalric knight
and two poor sisters--Balladina and Alina--turns into a gruesome and haunted
tale of a tyrant (Balladina the “woman-king”) who desperately abuses her
power.  While supernatural forces hover in the background, it is the greed
and ambition of humans that drives the plot.

The play will be introduced by the translator, Bill Johnston, and followed
by a short reception and Q&A with Prof. Johnston, the director & the actors
involved in the reading.

For more information please see http://www.aatseel.org/program or contact
Jessie Labov <labov.1 at osu.edu>.

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