ROCX is partnering with Theatre Y (www.theatre-y.com) to present a special evening of theater followed by a wine reception and an intimate discussion with the artists on November 9th, 2012 at 8pm. Additionally, it will be our honor to host a very special guest for the evening, the playwright and director of the Cluj Hungarian Theatre, Andras Visky.
Set in Romania, in the months just preceding the 1989 revolution, “PORN” is one of the first plays to use the newly released secret police files of the Ceausescu regime as its chief source. The author was inspired by things that happened to people very close to him and the play was born out of the merging of two real stories. Time and again they transform into fiction, not just because time becomes history, but because of the extremely terrifying “virtuality” of the very end of the 1980s.
As always, Visky’s work is simultaneously rooted in a very specific time and place, extraordinarily personal, and profoundly universal. It speaks about the “pornography of politics” and the theft of life, with the poetry and childlike belief, or disbelief, for which Visky’s writing is known. It follows the untamable freedom of one simple woman, the stray children who feast with her, and the men that find her perfect, crazy, or dangerous. It is an unbridled romp through the unavoidable dictatorships of civilized society.
In Remembrance of the Revolution.
Which Revolution?
The Revolution.
Set in Romania, in the months just preceding the 1989 revolution, “PORN” is one of the first plays to use the newly released secret police files of the Ceausescu regime as its chief source. The author was inspired by things that happened to people very close to him and the play was born out of the merging of two real stories. Time and again they transform into fiction, not just because time becomes history, but because of the extremely terrifying “virtuality” of the very end of the 1980s.
As always, Visky’s work is simultaneously rooted in a very specific time and place, extraordinarily personal, and profoundly universal. It speaks about the “pornography of politics” and the theft of life, with the poetry and childlike belief, or disbelief, for which Visky’s writing is known. It follows the untamable freedom of one simple woman, the stray children who feast with her, and the men that find her perfect, crazy, or dangerous. It is an unbridled romp through the unavoidable dictatorships of civilized society.
In Remembrance of the Revolution.
Which Revolution?
The Revolution.
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