Archa Theater
1989 - WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY
Documentary theater on the theme of: Freedom! Freedom?

November 10, 2009
Tuesday at 7:00pm

Archa Theater by Jan Langer

Presented by the Czech Center New York

Archa Theater’s documentary theater work asks if the people of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as residents of the West, took advantage of our window of opportunity in 1989. Within the framework of a fictitious live broadcast on RADIO 89 FM that incorporates dramatic comics Kurt and Kveta and online debates between Václav Havel, Jacques Rupnik, and JirÌ Cerny, this multimedia premiere examines themes of real and simulated freedom, escaping from the past, the connection between private and political worlds, and the borders between what was required under totalitarianism and what was conscious collaboration. Conceived by Tomás Vrba, Ondrej Hrab, and Jana Svobodová, and featuring Jaroslav Rudis, Eva HromnÌková, Philipp Schenker and university students who were born in 1989.

Created in cooperation with the Václav Havel Library and the Institutes for Contemporary History in Prague and Potsdam, Germany. With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

Czech Center New York at the Bohemian National Hall
321 East 73rd Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenues)
FREE
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