Critic & Playwright Carol Rocamora to Speak at 'Berg
Carol Rocamora, Ph.D. will deliver a lecture, Acts of Courage: Vaclav Havel's Life in the Theatre, on Friday, October 23 at 4 p.m. in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall.Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:22 AM
The talk, part of the College’s year-long series The Legacy of 1989: Twenty Years in the Post-Communist World and co-sponsored by the department of theatre and dance, is free and open to the public.
Rocamora is a prominent critic, translator, playwright, and theatre educator. Her books include a biography of the playwright, dissident, and former President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel and a three volume translation of the complete dramatic works of Anton Chekhov. Her play, I take your hand in mine...., based on the correspondence of Chekhov and Olga Knipper, premiered in September 2001 at the Almeida Theatre in London and opened in Paris in October 2003 at the Theatre des Bouffes du Nord under the direction of Peter Brook. She is a member of the faculty at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and lectures regularly at Yale and the Julliard School.
