The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents A Performance of The Astronaut livestreaming on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community on Thursday 8 June 2023 at 3:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
Please be part of us at The Bohemian National Hall for a efficiency of Lucia Mann’s new play The Astronaut. Co-directed by Lucia Mann and Arnon Grunberg.
In The Astronaut, a father receives a go to from his son. Complications of their relationship rapidly develop into clear – the son, who wears a full astronaut swimsuit, by no means replies to his father. A young exploration, by turns humorous and unhappy, of the numerous layers of a parent-child relationship, The Astronaut additionally not directly explores the biography of a Czechoslovakian refugee who fled in the course of the 1968 Prague Spring and traces the human penalties of this main historic occasion on his life, values, and private relationships. The Astronaut is a touching variation on a one-man present, with the daddy talking a collection of monologues to his silent son.
This staged studying of The Astronaut is a part of the Rehearsal for Truth Festival honoring Vaclav Havel and arranged by the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation and the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association.
The Rehearsal for Truth Festival is supported, partly, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. The program is made potential by the New York State Council on the Arts with the help of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Lucia Mann is a German author of performs, function movies, TV collection, and brief tales; she has written two feature-length movies which have been aired in a number of European nations. The daughter of Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia and Poland, Lucia was born and raised in West Berlin and has additionally lived in Israel, England, and the Czech Republic. In Fall 2023, Lucia will start a writer-in-residency program at The Ohio State University’s Melton Center for Jewish Studies.
Arnon Yasha Yves Grunberg (born 22 February 1971) is a Dutch author of novels, essays, and columns. He grew up in Amsterdam in a Jewish immigrant household and was kicked out of highschool at age seventeen. After a really brief performing profession, he began his personal publishing firm, Kasimir, in 1990 and wrote a number of performs. In 1994, he printed his first novel, Blue Mondays, for which he obtained a number of Dutch prizes, together with the Anton Wachter Prize and De Gouden Ezelsoor, awarded to the best-selling literary debut. Since then, he has written sixteen novels, together with Silent Extras (1997), Phantom Pain (2000), Tirza (2006), and The Jewish Messiah (2008). In addition to his novels, he has written many essays, columns, poems, screen-plays, and performs. His essays have appeared in worldwide magazines similar to The New York Times, Le Monde, Libération, The Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Courrier International, Revista Contexto and Süddeutsche Zeitung. In 2022, he obtained the PC Hooftprijs, a Dutch literary lifetime achievement award, and the Johannes Vermeer prize, the Dutch state prize for the humanities.
August Zirner, born 1956 in Illinois, USA, is an American-Austrian actor and musician who has appeared in over 140 movie productions. He is the one little one of Austrian emigrants of Jewish descent and stays an American citizen. Since 1973, he has lived in Europe, attending the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and holding engagements in Hanover and Wiesbaden as nicely in Vienna on the Burgtheater and the Theater in der Josefstadt. For eight years, he was a member of the ensemble on the Munich Kammerspiele. In 2006, he was awarded the Grimme Prize for the movie “Wut”. Since 2010, he has additionally appeared as a jazz flutist with varied language-music applications. Zirner is married to the actress Katalin Zsigmondy and lives in Prien am Chiemsee in Germany.
Co-presented by The Martin E Segal Theatre Center, The Vaclav Havel Center, and The Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association. Supported by the Drusilla Harvey Fund.