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

[David Goldfarb]

That's great that Pig Iron came through to do this.  I'll be there.

David

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Jessie Labov <labov1 at humanities.osu.edu> wrote:
> 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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