Audience

Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre will unveil a new marionette production of Audience by Vaclav Havel, translated and directed by Vit Horejs. The play, a dark comedy of spying in a brewery, will be staged with projected closeups of puppets from security cameras in order to suggest surveillance. In the last decade, such use of video has been employed to adapt marionette theater for large houses. The production’s concept is by Vit Horejs and Theresa Linnihan, who will act the play together. The 300-seat theater in Bohemian Hall, with socially distanced seating for this production, is a good venue for this approach of mixing live performers, marionettes and projected live video.