Svejk
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 14, 2004
Closed Dec 5, 2004
Opened Nov 14, 2004
Closed Dec 5, 2004
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Running Time:
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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http://www.daliaibelhauptaite.com
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Stephen Spinella stars in Svejk, Colin Teevan's new adaptation of Jaroslav Hasek's 1923 satiric novel The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the Great War. The novel has become a classic translated into 50 languages and has inspired adaptions for theater, opera, film and television the world over.
Svejk is the village idiot who is drafted into the army and survives World War I. But is Svejk an idiot or a brilliant fool? Teevan's play had its world premiere at the Gate Theatre in London five years ago. He has created new material for its North American premiere at Theatre for a New Audience. Dalia Ibelhauptaite, the Lithuanian woman who staged Svejk at The Gate, will direct 13 actors playing 40 roles in a production that will radiate with the artistic maelstrom of the period -- the terrifying absurd logic of Kafka, Surrealism, Dadaism and Futurism.
Added Performance: Friday, 11/26 @2pm
No Performances: Saturday, 11/6 @2pm, Sunday, 11/7 @3pm, Saturday, 11/13 @2pm, Thursday, 11/25 @8pm
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Svejk is an idiot, but you can learn a lot from him. Theatre for a New Audience is presenting the American premiere of Svejk, adapted by playwright Colin Teevan from Czech humorist Jaroslav Hasek's unfinished but highly influential anti-war epic The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War. The action of the play begins in 1914 with news of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and continues through the end of World War I. It follows Svejk (Stephen Spinella), a dim-witted fool, and the comic misadventures that lead him from imprisonment to an insane asylum to the frontlines of the war. Hasek's Svejk has become an archetypal character, the bumbling idiot who m[...]