Leaving
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 26, 2010
Closed Jun 20, 2010
Opened May 26, 2010
Closed Jun 20, 2010
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Václav Havel, renowned playwright and former President of the Czech Republic, crafts his first play in 20 years, and Wilma audiences will be the first to see it in the U.S.
Leaving is an epic story of a recently retired Chancellor who struggles with his family and functionaries over questions of truth and power. Allusions from Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Shakespeare's King Lear invade the Chancellor's consciousness in this wry political tragicomedy that The Sunday Times (London) called "deeply serious and thrillingly funny."
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Saying that an author "inserts himself into the play" is usually a criticism. But in Leaving, Václav Havel's first play in 20 years and now getting its U.S. premiere at Philadelphia's Wilma Theatre, authorial intrusions make the play.
It doesn't hurt that Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham is the voice of these comments, which range from mischievous observations on his own writing as it appears to directions to the cast not to overact. The device not only brilliantly acknowledges Havel's presence in a play about a high official leaving office, but it's a wonderfully funny one, as well -- especially for theater people, who will hear in it a cross between a director on the "god-[...]