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It's all happening at the 2nd Annual Voices International Theatre Festival…Oct 15 to 25
The 2nd annual VOICES International Theatre Festival
features 24 groundbreaking productions for 20 countries. Many look
courageously and compassionately at the fractured state of our world –
showing the human, psychological and spiritual tolls of systemic injustice.
Live and recorded full productions viewable online! TALK-BACKS
with the artists after most shows.
21 theatre companies from
Europe, Eastern Europe, South Asia, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the
US (NY-NJ).
South Africa’s Palesa
Mazamisa’s acclaimed “Shoes and Coups” on October 16, 10AM opens
the Festival. It asks, how far has South African society really come
since the end of Apartheid? TICKET LINK
Opening Ceremony WHEN: October 18, 4PM -10PM WHEREA live, in-person event at Liberty
State Park. Join us on the Crescent Lawn, on a specially designed
distance-safe Gateway Grid created by Gernot Rietherand.
Screening
live that night are three of the most audacious productions in the
Festival. Spain’s Los Escultores del Aire brings us "Tuberias" about
a world without water at 6pm. Then Rehab Theatre from Israel brings us a
hilarious satire about the vanity of Vladimir Putin in "Puh-puh-puh"
at 7pm. And then the late show… Belarus Free Theatre’s acclaimed “Burning
Doors” about artists living under dictatorship who won’t be silenced.
TICKETS: In-person
Tickets just $35 TICKET LINK; Watch
productions online: $10/show TICKET LINK. Festival passes with
all-access are $120. For tickets ($10) for individual virtual shows,
visit www.jctcenter.org.
EXPLORE THE WORLD THROUGH THE ARTS
ALL ARE WELCOME!
“An upside of
the pandemic is that we can now discover work by small companies that
might not have traveled to the U.S.” THE NY TIMES
