Eastenders Repertory Company's
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San Francisco, CA 94118

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Craig Souza and Jeff Thompson in Václav Havel's Audience Photo by Suzan A Kendall Wylie Herman, Craig Souza, and Amanda Krampf in Václav Havel's Unveiling Photo by Suzan A Kendall	Eastenders Repertory Company is pleased to announce the May 2008 production of 3 Vanĕk Plays by Václav Havel Audience Directed by Susan E. Evans Assistant Director Alexandra Nikolchev Unveiling Directed by Susan E. Evans Assistant Director Jennifer Daly Protest Directed by Gina Baleria at Jewish Community Center of the East Bay 1414 Walnut Street Berkeley, CA Runs: Thurs., May 1, Sat., May 3, Sunday, May 4, Thurs., May 15, Sat., May 17, Sunday, May 18. Plays: Thurs & Sat. at 8:00 p.m. & Sunday evenings at 7:00 p.m., Sun. matinees (May 4, 18) at 2:00 p.m. On Monday, May 5, and Wed., May 7, only: Audience will be presented together with a staged reading of Morass, a Vanĕk play by Pavel Kohout. The performance will be followed by a moderated discussion about the role, ethical responsibilities and freedoms of the artist in a political context. TICKETS: $20 All Performances; $15 Member, KQED, KTEH, TBA, student and senior discounts. Tickets are available online - please visit www.jcceastbay.org or Brown Paper Tickets. For more information call (510) 568-4118 Press Release
Eastenders Repertory Company presents 3 Vanĕk Plays Eastenders Repertory Company returns to the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay with 3 Vanĕk Plays: Audience, Unveiling, and Protest by former president of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel. Imprisoned for four years by the repressive Communist regime, Havel originally wrote Audience and Unveiling in the mid-1970s to entertain a small gathering of fellow writers, all of whom had their work banned in their native countries. The Vanĕk plays have since been produced more often and in more countries than any other of Havel’s plays – and been so influential that three of Havel’s fellow playwrights, Pavel Kahout, Pavel Landovský and Jiří Dienstbier, were inspired to write their own Vanĕk plays around the same central character. Ferdinand Vanĕk, the fictional protagonist of the trilogy, is Havel’s alter-ego, a 'dissident' playwright. In Audience we see Vanĕk working in a brewery in a bleakly absurd and comical encounter with his boss, the Brewmaster; in Unveiling we follow our hero as he visits a frighteningly and avidly consumerist, conformist couple; finally, in Protest, Vanĕk confronts his friend, a successful TV writer, whom he tries to convince to sign a petition renouncing the government.	Cast: Craig Souza as Vanĕk Jeff Thompson as the Brewmaster Amanda Krampf as Vera Wylie Herman as Michael Craig Dickerson as Stanĕk Crew: Production Stage Managed by Jennifer Daly Costumes by Daisy Neske Sound Design by Reg Clay and Susan E. Evans Lighting Design by Isaiah Dufort Properties by Susan E. Evans Graphic Design by Christine U'Ren