Event Listing - Theater
Thu May 1 - Sun May 18

Vaclav Havel's Vanek


Tel. 510.848.0237
Email Vaclav Havel's Vanek
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$15 - $20
Tickets
Box Office: 510.848.0237

Location
Date and Time
JCC East Bay
1414 Walnut St.
Berkeley, CA 94709
cross street: Rose St.
district: Berkeley

Thu May 1 (8:00pm)
Sat May 3 (8:00pm)
Sun May 4 (2:00pm, 7:00pm)
Thu May 15 (8:00pm)
Sat May 17 (8:00pm)

Description
Eastenders Repertory Company returns to the JCC with three Vanek Plays: AUDIENCE, UNVEILING, and PROTEST by former president of the Czech Republic Václav Havel. This trilogy centers on the author’s fictional alter ego Ferdinand Vanek, who, like the playwright-turned-statesman Havel, worked in a brewery before being jailed as a political dissident. Imprisoned for 4 years in the mid-1970s, Havel wrote AUDIENCE and UNVEILING after his release to entertain a small gathering of fellow writers, all of whom had their work banned in their native countries. In AUDIENCE, Vanek has a bleakly absurd and comical encounter with his boss; in Unveiling he visits a frighteningly conformist and avidly consumerist couple; and in PROTEST, Vanek confronts his friend, a successful TV writer, to convince him to sign an anti-government petition.