How are the potentialities of theater conceived to fulfill an ideological design, how is ideology transmitted as theater to shape material and symbolic forms of experience? Panel discussion moderated by Hana Worthen, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Performance Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University.

The panel is framed by these and similar questions, asking how theater re/imagines the contemporary world as a space of human and nonhuman interdependencies, refiguring local and global sensibilities and relations, and particularly rendering visible the marginalized, the silenced, the unjust. Part of Rehearsal for Truth, a unique festival presenting the best in Central European theater, organized under the auspices of Gale A. Brewer, Manhattan Borough President, and Daniel Herman, Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic.

Panelists:

• Martina Peckova Cerna, Head of International Cooperation Department, Arts and Theatre Institute in Prague,

• Zuzana Ulicianska, playwright, journalist, Public Relations Department, Theatre Institute in Bratislava

• Thomas Kriegsmann, President, ArKtype, New York