Theatre of the Eighth Day / "Made in Poland" Theater Festival

[Bill Martin]

Dear SEELANGers,

There's still time to see the remarkable play THE FILES (Teczki) by the
legendary Polish theater group THEATRE OF THE EIGHTH DAY (Teatr osmego
dnia). There will be four more performances in New York (Friday &
Saturday, November 7 & 8, at 8:30 PM; again at 2:30 PM on Saturday,
November 8; and at 7:30 PM, Sunday, November 9) at the 59E59 Theaters
(Tickets: $25 [59E59 members $17.50; student rush $10], 59 E. 59th Street,
New York, NY; tel: 212.279.4200).

There will also be four performances in Bloomington, IN, next week
(Thursday-Saturday, November 13-15, at 7:30 PM (in English); and a special
performance in Polish at 2:30 PM, Saturday November 15) at the John
Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut Street, Bloomington, IN (Tickets: $10,
$8 seniors & students; tel: 812.323.3020).

Translated into English by Bill Johnston and sponsored by the Polish
Cultual Institute, THE FILES is based on actual files that the Polish
secret police kept on the theater group's members in the 1970s and 80s. It
is a rich, enjoyable, and memorable exploration of life in the PRL and the
ensemble's own history, from the late 1960s to today.

For more information, please see the Polish Cultural Institute website at
http://www.PolishCulture-NYC.org

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Forget Grotowski! (well, for the rest of the month at least): the MADE IN
POLAND FESTIVAL, sponsored by Polish Cultural Institute and 59E59
Theaters, continues through November 30 with works by a new generation of
Polish playwrights.

MADE IN POLAND, a new play by Przemyslaw Wojcieszek, translated by Alissa
Valles, directed by Jackson Gay, and produced by The Play Company, runs
through November 30 at 59E59 Theaters (Tuesday-Friday at 8:15 PM, Saturday
at 2:15 and 8:15 PM, and Sunday at 3:15 [additional performance Sunday
11/23 at 7:15; no performance on Thanksgiving Day]. Tickets: $35 (59E59
members $24.50; student rush $10).

"A rebellious young man demands guidance in post-communist Poland,
challenging his priest, his teacher, his mother, and even local gangsters
to to show him the way. In the end, love saves the day. Jackson Gay
(director of: Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Scarcity) directs the
American premiere production of this exuberant, funny, and fierce play --
a popular hit by one of Poland's foremost contemporary theatre artists."

(And in case you were wondering, yes, the play's title is in English in
the original.)


BUT THAT'S NOT ALL! READ ON!


SANDBOX & THE FIRST TIME, two one-act comedies by Michal Walczak,
translated by Benjamin Paloff, directed (respectively) by Piotr
Kruszczynski and Marcy Arlin, and produced by Immigrants Theatre Project,
will premiere November 13 and run through November 30 at 59E59 Theaters
(Tuesday-Friday at 8:30, Saturday at 2:30 and 830, Sunday at 3:30 and 7:30
[Sunday 11/30 at 3:30 only; no performance Thanksgiving Day]. Tickets: $20
(59E59 members $14, student rush $10).

"These two short plays examine the ferocious, tragicomic, rough-and-tumble
between the sexes. Both explore the different stages of relationships,
underlaid with a cynicism and absurdism often found in Eastern European
theater. The battle of the sexes literally starts in the SANDBOX, in the
hilarious confrontation between a boy guarding his space and a girl who
just wants to play. THE FIRST TIME is an outrageous look at erotic
interplay under absurd circumstances, when a woman demands from her eager
boyfriend that their 'first time' be perfect."

For more information on these and other Polish Cultural Institute events,
please see the Institute website at http://www.PolishCulture-NYC.org

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