Leaving
Opening Night: May 26, 2010
Closing: June 20, 2010
Theater: Wilma Theater
Leaving is an inventive story of a recently retired Chancellor who struggles over questions of truth and power along with his eccentric family and humorous bevy of functionaries. Allusions from Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Shakespeare’s King Lear invade the Chancellor’s consciousness in this wry political tragicomedy.
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June 9, 2010
A parade of slow exits constitutes the apt conclusion of “Leaving,” the Vaclav Havel play making its American premiere at the Wilma Theater here. The friends and family of a newly deposed chancellor being ousted from his government-owned villa depart the stage one by one, ceding the territory to a representative from the new regime.
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