written / performed by Monica Hunken 2012
Culture Project / The Living Theatre, New York
On a snowy Easter Sunday, Monica embarked on a bicycle journey across the vodka-soaked roads of Poland in search of the man who haunts her–a man of power, genius, fame and violence–her grandfather. Along her path, she squats and pogos with anarchist punks in old factories, barely escapes a knifing by Neo-Nazis, hides in churches and is hypnotized in a para-theatrical workshop. You will be led by many eccentric guides through this surreal landscape; a mohawked bike messenger, Ingrid Bergman, a girl with a third eye and your bewildered hostess, Monica Dudarov Ossetynska Hunken, heiress to cult and Slavic royalty.
Originally commissioned for the Women Centre Stage Festival at The Living Theatre in New York, later produced by Culture Project and The Polish Cultural Inst. at ABC No Rio, probably the last squat standing in the Lower East Side.
TOURS: Amsterdam Fringe (Das Feinhout Teatr), Porsgrunn International Festival, Norway, Tamarama Rock Surfers Theatre, Sydney.
TEAM: Evan True (technical) Xana Chambers (sound design) Doug Chapman (operator).