Win A Pair of Tickets to BALATON for 10/22!

Electric Pear kicks off its fourth season with the World Premiere of Balaton by Ashlin Halfnight, presented with the support of the Hungarian Cultural Center and the Extremely Hungary Festival. Set in a tenuous afterlife, Balaton is a multi-generational drama that charts a fractured Hungarian family's fight for unity and security in a world after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

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Frightened and disoriented, Sabrina stumbles her way through a cold and indiscernible space, where time lurches forward, rushes back...and disarmingly stands still. In this liminal world, where memories replace and highlight reality, Sabrina and her divided Hungarian kin must confront the post-communist, Americanized world that has drastically altered their lives. Desperate for unity, the family struggles violently against the infiltration of fast food, designer clothing, infidelity, assimilation and uncompromising youth. And all the while, the stars shine above Balaton.

Balaton will be presented in concurrence with the Extremely Hungary Festival, a year-long celebration showcasing contemporary Hungarian visual, performing, and literary arts in New York and Washington, D.C., throughout 2009. The festival reveals the roots of Hungary's thriving contemporary culture and its impact on American society through a broad spectrum of events at leading cultural institutions including: Lincoln Center, BAM, Galapagos, and The Jewish Museum. The festival is part of a larger arts movement in 2009, bringing artists and exhibitions from former Eastern Bloc countries to NYC. The closing night of Balaton will also commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (November 9, 1989) and the collapse of the Iron Curtain.

Electric Pear Productions, founded by Ashlin Halfnight and Melanie Sylvan in 2006, is a non-profit company which cultivates, backs and presents original and persuasive theatrical endeavors. The company is committed to exploring the junction between disparate entities; Electric Pear seeks to deepen the performance landscape by working at the crossroads where the mainstream meets the avant-garde, where artistic disciplines cross-pollinate, and where translation and border-crossing is embraced. Electric Pear seeks to create a welcoming, vibrant community of artists and enthusiasts where respect and generosity are paramount, where creation and vision are honored.

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