Listen in as actors David Barlow & Danielle Skraastad of PTP/NYC‘s production of Havel: The Passion of Thought—three short plays from Vaclav Havel, bookended by Harold Pinter’s The New World Order and Samuel Beckett’s Catastrophe—discuss why these plays work so well in conversation, the difference between performing them together in 1991 vs. in 2019, “On Tyranny,” the power of making theatre, “the politics of kindness,” and the importance of living the truth.
“…they felt so current, and felt so hopeful, in a galvanizing way…that art matters. Words matter. What do you want to do?…”
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PTP/NYC presents
Havel: The Passion of Thought
featuring plays written by Vaclav Havel, Harold Pinter, & Samuel Beckett
directed by Richard Romagnoli
in rep with
Dogg’s Hamlet / Cahoot’s MacBeth
written by Tom Stoppard
directed by Cheryl Faraone
thru August 4, 2019
Atlantic Stage 2
330 W. 16th Street
Manhattan
tickets: $37.50 ($22.50 students/seniors), available via OvationTix
photos by Stan Barouh