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PTP-NYC: Havel: The Passion of Thought

First Preview: Jul 05, 2019

Opening Date: Jul 05, 2019

Closing Date: Aug 05, 2019

Running Time: 01:40

PTP-NYC: Havel: The Passion of Thought
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Playing @

Atlantic Stage 2

330 West 16th Street New York City, NY 10011

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HAVEL: THE PASSION OF THOUGHT, an evening comprised of five serio-comic one act plays by Vaclav Havel, Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett

In Audience, Private View and Protest, the dissident Vanek (Havel’s alter ego) encounters people trapped by the moral dilemmas inherent in a Communist system. The trio of plays is bookended by Harold Pinter’s New World Order and Samuel Beckett’s Catastrophe. The latter was written in tribute to Havel.

The Vanek plays (along with all of Havel’s work) were banned in Czechoslovakia, but that didn’t prevent people from performing them in their living rooms, copying them surreptitiously as samizdat (illegal, faded copies of banned work), or even recording them on vinyl. One of Havel’s core ideas in his philosophical essays is the concept of “living in truth,” that each small compromise we make with the truth leads to larger compromises, until it snowballs into a society-wide epidemic in which lying becomes the institutional path.
Age Guidance

Age Guidance: 16

Show Notes

Show Notes: No Intermission

Audience Advisory:

Performs in repertory with Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth

Performance Schedule:

REPERTORY PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
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Director

Richard Romagnoli

Written by

Vaclav Havel, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett

TDF Tickets Offers:

TDF member tickets:

Not currently available for this show

Listed atTKTS

Never

Full-price tickets

$20 - $37.50

Lottery & Rush

$22.50 - Students/Seniors

Accessibility:

Directions Bus

Take the M11 which runs down 9th Avenue, the M20 which runs up 8th Avenue, or the M14 which runs across 14th Street.

Directions Subway

Take the A, C, E to 14th Street (use 16th St. exit). Take the 1 to 18th Street.

Assisted Listening System

Equipped with an Infrared Assisted Listening system. Please see a House Manager in the basement of Stage 2 to obtain an Assisted Listening Devices; , provide ID

Box Office

The box office at Atlantic Stage 2 is at street level and does not require any steps

Elevator\Escalator

A wheelchair lift and elevator will bring patrons with limited mobility from the lobby to the theater.

Entrance

3 steps, available wheelchair lift and elevator Doors to theatre are opened manually by patrons

Restroom

Both Men’s & Women’s: theatre level, accessible from lobby without stairs / Wheelchair-accessible stall, sink, paper towel dispenser, and changing table

Telephone

None on premises

Water Fountain

Located on the same level as the theater.

Wheelchair Info

Wheelchair accessible seats are located in row AA. Seats in row A, in addition to seats in row AA, do not require steps to access. Our Box Office and House Management staff will gladly assist you

Folding Armrests

None available

Parking

Limited street parking. • Parking: ipark, 250 W. 19th St. .2 miles away, ramp, $21 for the night, hourly before 4PM

Passenger Loading Zone

Front of Entrance - limited

Visual Assistance

None available

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Public Transportation

Subway Icon

By Subway:

Take the A, C, E to 14th Street (use 16th St. exit). Take the 1 to 18th Street.

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By Bus:

Take the M11 which runs down 9th Avenue, the M20 which runs up 8th Avenue, or the M14 which runs across 14th Street.