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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style> </span></span><b>Theater
Voices will present the first production of its twenty-fifth anniversary
season, a staged reading of THE VANEK PLAYS by Vaclav Havel, directed by Mark
Dalton.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style> </span><span style></span>Performances will be given at Steamer
No. 10 Theatre, 500 Western Avenue in Albany, on Friday, October 12 at 8:00 PM;
Saturday, October 13 at 3:00PM and 8:00 PM; and Sunday, October 14 at 3:00 PM.
Admission is free.<span style>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt">Set in the 1970’s, the three scripts dramatize the
plight of a dissident playwright named Vanek, who in his attempt to
re-acclimate himself to society encounters friends and colleagues who offer
help. The title character’s plight is not unlike that of the dramatist himself,
who went on to become the first President of the Czech Republic (1993-2003).
Throughout his career he wrote more then twenty plays as well as numerous works
of nonfiction. The director of this presentation is Mark Dalton, who is a
writer, director and educator living in Albany. He is very happy to be
returning to Theater Voices 16 years after directing David Mamet's <i>The Water
Engine</i></span><span style="font-size:12pt">. Directing <i>The Vanek Plays</i></span><span style="font-size:12pt"> also represents a return for Mark to the depiction of
anti-Soviet dissent, a topic explored in his production of Larry Shue's <i>Wenceslas
Square</i></span><span style="font-size:12pt">, which was staged by Capital
Repertory Theatre in 1994. The cast includes Gary Maggio, Christopher Conant,
Joseph Bonarrigo, John Noble and Yvonne Perry. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt">Contact <a href="http://www.theatervoices.org">www.theatervoices.org</a> or 518-438-5503 for more
information.</span></p>
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