2022 Spring Stage Readings: Kicking Down the Quilt at Bohemian National Hall

(Stage reading and talkback) Conceived as a dialogue for theater, "Kicking Down the Quilt" deals with the spiritual condition of our hyper-contemporary society. The protagonists of this story have no specific gender, race, names, or age. They are democratically elected representatives of intimacy. The plays text talks without discrimination about our darkest affairs and most glorious battles, of which we ourselves cannot speak.Playwright: Rafal Dziemidok. Director: Dmitri Barcomi. Cast: Amy Coleman, Aleksandr Krapivkin, DeVante Lewis, David Mandelbaum, Demetrius Stewart, Weronika Wozniak.Theater understood as a practice organizing time and space provides the words coming from the stage with context, meaning, interpretative nuance. Therefore, the plot and psychology of the characters are not present in this text, they might be taken on as topics for its staging. Rafal Dziemidok, playwright---The 2022 Spring Stage Readings is the fourth spring edition of the Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival. From April 4 to April 25, the festival honoring playwright and human rights activist Vaclav Havel will offer New York audiences stage readings of contemporary plays by award-winning European playwrights from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and Romania. Each festivals spring edition is a unique opportunity for a truly intercultural and multigenerational exploration of Central European present-day trends and the not-so-distant, turbulent past.