The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents a celebration of Four Plays by Dorota Masłowska livestreaming on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community on Friday 2 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).
Join us for a night celebrating the most recent Segal Center publication Four Plays by Dorota Masłowska on the Bohemian National Hall as a part of The Rehearsal for Truth Festival 2023.
Four Plays by Dorota Masłowska contains:
No Matter How Hard We Try, translated by Artur Zapalowski
A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians translated by Benjamin Paloff
How I Became a Witch, translated by Artur Zapalowski
Bowie in Warsaw, translated by Soren Gauger
Dorota Masłowska is a Polish author, playwright, and journalist and the recipient of the distinguished Polityka Prize for her debut novel Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną (Snow White and Russian Red, Grove Atlantic), revealed when she was simply 19 years previous. The guide garnered huge vital acclaim in Poland. Since then, she has written a number of novels and performs and has change into a celebrated literary determine in Poland. Honey, I Killed the Cats, her second novel to be revealed in English, has been tailored for stage and parts have been made into a brief movie directed by Marcin Nowak. She at present resides in Warsaw. Soon after Masłowska turned to theatre, writing two performs: A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians (Dwoje biednych Rumunów mówiących po polsku) in 2006 and No Matter How Hard We Tried or All is Right Between Us (the title being a verse from a track by the punk group, Siekiera [Ax] – Między nami dobrze jest) in 2008.
With Krystyna Illakowicz. Moderated by Frank Hentschker.
Co-presented with The Polish Cultural Institute New York, Tomek Smolarski, The Vaclav Havel Center, and The Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association and Pavla Niklova.