The Last Cyclist“The Cyclists are responsible for all of our misfortunes!” “Why the cyclists?” “Why the Jews?” This satirical joke hails from The Last Cyclist, a comedy written and rehearsed inside the Terezín Concentration Camp near Prague. The play was not performed after the final dress rehearsal, as it was feared that its clever satire of the treatment of Jews and others by the Nazis would bring fatal consequences. This new version has been reimagined and reconstructed by Naomi Patz, based on surviving accounts and scripts. It is presented as a play within a play wherein the audience sees history come to life as the Terezín inmates gather to rehearse this allegorical and absurdist story of a society in which the bicyclists have become the target for scapegoatism and elimination. The Last Cyclist is as funny as it is dangerously political, capturing the absurdity of life under the Nazis as well as the resilient spirit of the artists who originally constructed this production inside of Terezín.
Directed by Rachel Blackburn & Gina Sandi-Diaz
Scenic Design by Savannah Edgar
Lighting & Costume Design by Nannan Gu
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
See The Last Cyclist--directed by Gina Sandi-Diaz and Rachel Blackburn
Reimagined and reconstructed by Naomi Patz, based on a cabaret written by Karel Švenk in the Terezín Ghetto in 1944
The Last Cyclist“The Cyclists are responsible for all of our misfortunes!” “Why the cyclists?” “Why the Jews?” This satirical joke hails from The Last Cyclist, a comedy written and rehearsed inside the Terezín Concentration Camp near Prague. The play was not performed after the final dress rehearsal, as it was feared that its clever satire of the treatment of Jews and others by the Nazis would bring fatal consequences. This new version has been reimagined and reconstructed by Naomi Patz, based on surviving accounts and scripts. It is presented as a play within a play wherein the audience sees history come to life as the Terezín inmates gather to rehearse this allegorical and absurdist story of a society in which the bicyclists have become the target for scapegoatism and elimination. The Last Cyclist is as funny as it is dangerously political, capturing the absurdity of life under the Nazis as well as the resilient spirit of the artists who originally constructed this production inside of Terezín.
Directed by Rachel Blackburn & Gina Sandi-Diaz
Scenic Design by Savannah Edgar
Lighting & Costume Design by Nannan Gu
The Last Cyclist“The Cyclists are responsible for all of our misfortunes!” “Why the cyclists?” “Why the Jews?” This satirical joke hails from The Last Cyclist, a comedy written and rehearsed inside the Terezín Concentration Camp near Prague. The play was not performed after the final dress rehearsal, as it was feared that its clever satire of the treatment of Jews and others by the Nazis would bring fatal consequences. This new version has been reimagined and reconstructed by Naomi Patz, based on surviving accounts and scripts. It is presented as a play within a play wherein the audience sees history come to life as the Terezín inmates gather to rehearse this allegorical and absurdist story of a society in which the bicyclists have become the target for scapegoatism and elimination. The Last Cyclist is as funny as it is dangerously political, capturing the absurdity of life under the Nazis as well as the resilient spirit of the artists who originally constructed this production inside of Terezín.
Directed by Rachel Blackburn & Gina Sandi-Diaz
Scenic Design by Savannah Edgar
Lighting & Costume Design by Nannan Gu
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