Award-winning play Love, Bitches is a teen comedy tinged with horror and centered on a conflict between a punk and pop music band on a concert tour they must share due to production reasons. The initial animosity must subside when it is revealed that the sister of the punker Tequila is living with the leader of the pop band, Étien, who has been entrusted with the care of the beloved poodle of the manager of both bands. After a visit from her sister, the alcohol-soaked and depressed Tequila falls in love with the poodle and walks off into the night with him. Étien’s frantic search for his boss’s most precious possession takes unexpected turns.
Love, Bitches (Czech Republic). Playwright: Petr Kolecko. Director: Edward Einhorn. Cast: Stephan Amenta (Ricardo), JaneAnne Halter (Lucia), Ian J Hayes (Etien), Ethan Horgan (Dolly), Jordana Kagan (Poodle), Delia Kemph (Teen 2), Sara Rahman (Teen 1), Rivera Reese (Tequila), Nathaniel J. Ryan (Slim), Dana Watkins (Pinhead), Maxwell Zener (Ben). Music accompaniment: Adam Bernstein. Translated by: Edward Einhorn with assistance of Katerina Lu.
Love, Bitches is a play about young people who live in a fake world of lifestyle magazines and TV shows. Overwhelmed by images of perfect happiness and true love, they can no longer actually recognize perfect happiness and true love.
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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.
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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.