United Solo Theater Fest Presents Look, What I Don’t Understand

2011 UNITED SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL presents New York City premiere of ANTHONY NIKOLCHEV's award winning, US and European touring story of Bulgarian Escape from Communism and Battle to Enter the United States, Look, What I Don't Understand

WEBSITE: http://anthonynikolchev.blogspot.com - www.unitedsolo.org

LOCATION: Theatre ROW, 410 West 42nd Street, New York City 10036 (between 9th and 10th Avenues - subway A/C/E to Times Square 42nd Street)

SUMMARY: Actor, writer and set designer Anthony Nikolchev will have the New York City premiere of his solo performance, "Look, What I Don't Understand" as part of the 2011 United Solo International Theatre Festival. This one-man drama takes the audience into a US immigrant detainment center in 1969, and asks them to decide the fate of Bulgarian communist defectors caught in red tape limbo. The paranoia of the main characters - a couple and their two children - shifts from their dangerous escape to their unknown fate at the hands of a United States government that doesn't seem to be listening. Based largely in the style of documentary theatre, "Look, What I Don't Understand," doesn't offer clear answers but only a glimpse into the complicated pasts that drive people to risk losing everything as they earn the label "immigrant."

Called a "tour de force" by The Los Angeles Times, "fascinating and horrifying at the same time" by The Chicago Tribune and receiving the Festival Director's Award from Poland's WROSTJA festival - the longest running solo performance festival in the world - "Look, What I Don't Understand," is ready for New York City. Anthony Nikolchev spent two years touring his play through post-communist countries - including Russia, Armenia and Poland - to challenge himself as a native born Californian to confront the places and people from which his family bravely (or cowardly) fled. And with that new perspective, Nikolchev returns to the immigrant Mecca of New York City to engage in a new dialogue about how we fight to preserve our identities.

WHEN: November 11, 2011, 9 p.m. ONE NIGHT ONLY.

TICKETS: Tickets, which are $18, are available at the Theatre ROW Box Office (410 West 42nd Street, New York City) and via Telecharge (www.telecharge.com or 212-239-6200).
STAFF: Anthony Nikolchev (Actor, Playwright, Set Design), Yuriy Kordonskiy (director), Anna Martin (Lighting Design), Jack L. Johnson (Sound Design).