Monday, February 21, 2011
Being Harold Pinter Benefit Takes Place in Chicago Feb. 21
Playbill.com: "Members of the Chicago theatre community join cast members of the Belarus Free Theatre for the Feb. 21 benefit performance of Being Harold Pinter, the heralded political work that debuted Off-Broadway at the Public Theater earlier this winter.
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The more I read about this the more I regret not getting out to see the reading when the Belarus Free Theatre staged a reading of it in Pittsburgh last month. There seems to be a strong connection between avant-garde performance, Eastern European theatre artists, and politics. While the avant-garde in America plays with genre and form itself; the political repercussions are merely suggested not implied. The more and more I think about this production the more it makes perfect sense to me: a theater company who has had members imprisoned for protesting a tyrannical government paired with one of the greatest modern playwrights who used his Nobel Prize acceptance speech as a platform to bash George W. Bush (a tyrannical government.)
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