The sixth edition of the Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival showcased exciting theatrical productions that brought together an international community of wonderful artists and audience. We’re also thrilled to announce a new festival director – Edward Einhorn, a brilliant author and theater director.
Read MoreWe are delighted to announce the launch of an online store and a publication of student winning plays from the Best Mini-Drama Student Contest organized by the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation. What better way to launch a new store than with new theater plays?
Read MoreCelebrity actor Jan Potmesil and director Jakub Spalek, presenting the Vaclav Havel’s Audience at the 2019 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival, met in an acting school. The 1989 Velvet Revolution brought their dreams closer to reality, and then, a horrific accident left Jan wheelchair-bound. Acting did not seem like an option.
Read More“Havel: The Passion of Thought,” along with work by Harold Pinter and one by Samuel Beckett (dedicated to Havel), takes on morality and tyranny.
Read MoreMartin Cicvak, author of the Urn on an Empty Stage (performed at Spring Weekend of the 2019 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival) brilliantly explores the dynamics between authoritative figures and their “victims,” particularly women. Using the Greek myth of Europa, his play attacks the problem of gender equality and the status of women in today’s society.
Read MoreInterview with Romanian actress Simona Maicanescu who has recently branched out into a new realms as both playwright and translator with her adaptation of Herta Muller’s book, The Appointment, entitled I Hope I wouldn’t Meet Myself Today. Simona’s adaptation was staged at the Spring Weekend of the 2019 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival.
Read MoreThe 2019 Spring Weekend featured a stage reading of Andrea Pass’ play Sunflower. The play is a vibrant tableau of everyday life, vulnerable and burdened with financial problems, broken families, and taboos and shame surrounding mental illness. We had the opportunity to talk to Andrea, who was present at the reading and discussion after the performance, and Attila Szabó, Hungarian project advisor.
Read MoreWe spoke with the lead actress of the Eve of Retirement, Zuzana Kronerova, about her role in the production of the Thomas Bernhard’s play, presented at the 2018 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival. Zuzana is a renowned Slovak film, television and stage actress. She has been featured in more than twenty films to date, including the Oscar nominated Ice Mother, which also received a Best Screenplay award at the Tribeca Film Festival 2017.
Read MoreJacob Sampson had never written a full-length play when he heard about the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation’s contest. He hadn’t read Havel’s “The Memorandum” — in fact, he hadn’t even heard of Havel. But when Andrew Harris, his professor at the University of North Texas, sent him a flyer about the VHLF competition, he read the play and had a stroke of inspiration.
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