Excerpts from four plays published in the anthology Exile Is My Home will be read on stage, followed by a discussion with the author, Domnica Radulescu. Among them will be the titular play, a sci-fi immigrant fairytale brilliantly combining absurdist comedy, irony, and suspense.
Exile Is My Home traces the eerie journey of Lina and Mina, a refugee couple from the Balkans who cross the galaxies as they travel from planet to planet in search of home and peace after having survived wars and atrocities. The planets represent different states of the world, both utopian and dystopian, from serene spheres of tolerance to nightmarish visions of a cataclysmic future. These worlds are also states of mind and consciousness, embodying our strongest desires and deepest fears. “Planet America” combines all of these ideas into an ambiguous space—both frightening and alluring, both hopeless and hopeful.
Exile Is My Home, Romania. Playwright: Domnica Radulescu. Director: Rachel Tamarin. Cast: Steph Marie Alvarez, Jessica Carmona, Alexandra Gomez, Talia Segal, Ken LaBoy Vasquez, Selina Hernandez. Choreographer: Amy Frey. Music: Joshua Murphy, Alexander Tanson.
Domnica Radulescu will participate in the talkback.
Free and open to the public. Online registration through Eventbrite is required.
The 2022 Spring Stage Readings: Bridging the Worlds is dedicated to the people of Ukraine fighting for their independence. 🇺🇦 Suggested donation ($10) will be used to support Ukrainian refugees. All collected funds will be donated to People in Need, a Czech non-governmental, non-profit organization with over 20 years of experience in helping people in emergencies all over the world.
Proof of vaccination and wearing of a face mask during the event is required.
This event is not suitable for children under 16
For more information about this reading and the 2022 Spring Stage Readings program, visit www.rehearsalfortruth.org.
ABOUT THE 2022 SPRING STAGE READINGS
The 2022 Spring Stage Readings: Bridging the Worlds is organized by the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation and the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York, Untitled Theater Company #61, Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York, GOH Productions, and Romanian Cultural Institute. The festival is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Spring Stage Readings is part of the Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival honoring the playwright and human rights activist Vaclav Havel.
The 2022 edition has been conceived in consultation with Attila Szabo, Deputy Director, Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute; Martina Peckova-Cerna, Head, International Cooperation Department, Arts and Theatre Institute, Prague; Tomek Smolarski, Performing Arts Programming, Polish Cultural Institute New York; Raluca Cimpoiasu, Program Manager, Romanian Cultural Institute; Vladislava Fekete, Director, Theatre Institute in Bratislava; and Andrea Domeova, Head of the Centre for Editorial Activities, Theatre Institute in Bratislava.