Spring Weekend: Hoped I Wouldn't Meet Myself Today at Bohemian National Hall

May 11 at 8 pm Hoped I Wouldnt Meet Myself Today by Herta Muller, translated, performed, and directed by Simona MaicanescuFull production, Talk Back & After PartyThe play is set in Eastern Europe before the fall of the Berlin Wall where Lili works in a Romanian factory making fine men's overcoats for export to Italy. Her love life is a mess-she has a live-in male friend who spends all of his time and most of her money drinking the day away. Lili also has a secret; she inserts notes which say Marry me! and include her name and address into the linings of the coats she sews. When her notes are discovered, Lili knows she could face unemployment or even imprisonment. She is summoned to the inspectors office to receive the verdict. But the inspector takes a personal interest in her case; that is, he takes a personal interest in her.As an actress, Simona Maicanescu has performed in diverse rolls, including Viola in Twelfth Night and Solange in The Maids. She has worked in both Romania and France under directors Sanda Manu, Ctlina Buzoianu, Silviu Purcrete, Lucian Pintilie, Andrei Serban, Tompa Gabor, Sandu Dabija. She has recently branched out into a new realms as both playwright and translator with her adaptation of Herta Mullers book Hoped I wouldnt Meet Myself Today. She has a Masters degree from the Bucharest Academy of Arts.The Playwright: Herta Muller is recipient of the Nobel Prize. The performance Hoped I Wouldnt Meet Myself Today is a dramatization of her book which was translated into English with the title The Appointment. Mullers story revolves around a Romanian worker who is terrorized by the Ceausescu`s Securitate.