Stage reading of excerpts from two plays that employ absurdist humor as they explore issues related to Eastern European transitions to democracy and Portal—an experimental stream of words, thoughts, and dialogues. “Money” features a “panopticon” of peculiar characters whose seemingly unrelated but certainly odd stories of attempts to do something with their lives meet at one point in a given time and space. “The Third Age” is a bitter comic farce about life, relationships, and people continuously struggling to partake in a society that abruptly transitioned to freedom in 1989.