Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival Presents the 2021 [Virtual] Spring Weekend: Concerning Human Identity
Experience award-winning contemporary plays by Eastern European playwrights addressing current social and political issues in pursuit of truth.
Organized by the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation and Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association. This reading is produced by Tomek Smolarski and supported by the Polish Cultural Institute New York and Teatr Polski in Bydgoszcz.
The festival is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and Council Member Ben Kallos.
Detroit. The History of a Hand (Poland). Playwright: Jolanta Janiczak. Director: Vernice Miller. Translated by: Beata Marczynska-Fedorowicz. Cast: Brian Jennings, Raymond Johannes Kraft, Erin Lockett, Anna Podolak, Kelvin Tejada, Joann Yarrow.
Detroit. The History of a Hand centers on the fulfillment and downfall of the American Dream. The play is based on Diego Rivera’s mural at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). Jolanta Janiczak wrote the script after she visited Detroit and witnessed the ruins of the once powerful city. Rivera painted an epic series of 27 intricate panels embedded into walls of the DIA courtyard. Entering this space offers visitors a chance to glimpse into the robust industrial era that Rivera transposed in 1933, when Detroit still stood as an icon of a modern city.
Detroit. The History of a Hand, directed by Wiktor Rubin, premiered at the Polish Theater in Bydgoszcz in 2014.
