An absurd drama taking place in a supermarket of the future in a society where everyone is under surveillance. Reason, truth, and compassion are seemingly left behind.
Shelves, Czech Republic. Playwright: Daniela Samsonova. Director: Ellis Stump. Cast: Stephen Bush, Sophia Caressa, Jake Fallon, Yasmin Pascall.
Daniela Samsonova’s play Shelves is the winner of the 2021 Best Mini Drama Student Contest, organized annually by the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation in partnership with the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, Barnard College, Columbia University, and Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. For this round, contestants were invited to write mini dramas based on Vaclav Havel’s Garden Party.
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The 2022 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival 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 REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH THEATER FESTIVAL
The 2022 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival: Under Pressure is organized by the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation and the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York, GOH Productions, Czech National Trust, Terezin Music Foundation, Trap Door Theatre, and Yara Arts Group.
The festival is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Human Capacities, Hungary, and Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews.