The Pig

by Vaclav Havel, adapted for the stage by Vladimír Morávek,
Featuring music from "The Bartered Bride" by Bedřich Smetana    
Translation and additional text by Edward Einhorn

Role: Olga / Flute / Ensemble

Dates: June 29 - Sat July 2 2011
Company:  Untitled Theater Company #61
Theater: SoHo Think Tank/Ohio Theater's ICE FACTORY
at 3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street
Director / Musical Arranger: Henry Akona                         

Choreography/Assistant Producer: Patrice Miller
Set Design: Jane Stein
Costume Design: Carla Gant
Lighting Design: Jeff Nash
Video Design: Kate Freer and David Tennent
Dramaturgy: Karen Lee Ott
Assistant Director: Joe Pikowski
Stage Manager: Elizabeth Irwin                   
                       
With: Katherine Boynton, Elizabeth Figols Galagarza, John Gallop, Andrew Goldsworth, Robert Honeywell, Michael Hopewell, Jenny Lee Mitchell, Mateo Moreno, Phoebe Silva, Moira Stone, Terence Stone, Michael Whitney, Sandy York

Accordionist/Assistant Music Director: Melissa Elledge
Cello: Michael Midlarsky
Violin: Amanda Lo, Phoebe Silva
Flute: Sandy York
Clarinet: Jenny Lee Mitchell

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE/AMERICAN PREMIERE
A theatrical-musical-technological-gastronomic extravaganza

Each night a different pre/post show band:  6/29 The Drunkard’s Wife  6/30 Short Stride Clyde vs. the 5 Brothers Fat   7/1 Ace Case   7/2 Aeroplane Pageant

Václav Havel needs a pig he can slaughter and cook for a party with his dissident friends. An American journalist arrives for an interview. The villagers have a pig to sell, but where is it? And why is everyone singing The Bartered Bride? Food, drink, song, video, politics and celebration collide in this adaptation by experimental Czech director Vladimír Morávek of Havel’s text and Smetana’s music. 
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