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Pentecost
First Preview: Jul 3, 2014
Opening Date: Jul 3, 2014
Closing Date: Aug 10, 2014
Running Time: 02:35
Playing @
Atlantic Stage 2
330 West 16th Street, New York City, NY 10011
PENTECOST was first produced at The Other Place, Stratford-Upon-Avon, in October 1994. The play is set in an abandoned church in an unnamed Eastern European country shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A 13th-century fresco has just been discovered by a young curator from the country’s national museum. If proved to predate the works of Giotto, as suspected, the work could explode accepted notions about European art. In Act 1, the authenticity of the fresco is passionately debated in a prolonged and provocative discussion that ranges from the fallacy of cultural relativism to the increasing disillusionment of Eastern European society in the post-Soviet order.
Then, without warning, a group of armed and desperate refugees barricade themselves inside the church, taking hostage the Western art experts inside. The refugees range in ethnicity from Palestinian to Kurd to Bosnian and the second act details increasingly tense negotiation and argumentation, leading to a shocking and visceral conclusion.
Then, without warning, a group of armed and desperate refugees barricade themselves inside the church, taking hostage the Western art experts inside. The refugees range in ethnicity from Palestinian to Kurd to Bosnian and the second act details increasingly tense negotiation and argumentation, leading to a shocking and visceral conclusion.
Show Notes: 1 Intermission. Show plays in repertory with Gertrude: The Cry. Check website for performance dates & times
Age Guidance: 16
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Reviews
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“With great wit and empathy, Edgar uses the fresco, its questionable status and the competing ethnic, national and religious interest-groups who flock round it, as a piquant vantage point from which to look at the ironies and agonies of post-Communist Eastern Europe and at conflicting attitudes towards art.”
----The Independent -
“With great wit and empathy, Edgar uses the fresco, its questionable status and the competing ethnic, national and religious interest-groups who flock round it, as a piquant vantage point from which to look at the ironies and agonies of post-Communist Eastern Europe and at conflicting attitudes towards art.”
----The Independent -
“With great wit and empathy, Edgar uses the fresco, its questionable status and the competing ethnic, national and religious interest-groups who flock round it, as a piquant vantage point from which to look at the ironies and agonies of post-Communist Eastern Europe and at conflicting attitudes towards art.”
----The Independent -
“With great wit and empathy, Edgar uses the fresco, its questionable status and the competing ethnic, national and religious interest-groups who flock round it, as a piquant vantage point from which to look at the ironies and agonies of post-Communist Eastern Europe and at conflicting attitudes towards art.”
----The Independent
Accessibility
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Assisted Listening System
Equipped with an Infrared Assisted Listening system. Please see a House Manager in the basement of Stage 2 to obtain an Assisted Listening Devices; , provide ID -
Box Office
The box office at Atlantic Stage 2 is at street level and does not require any steps -
Elevator/Escalator
A wheelchair lift and elevator will bring patrons with limited mobility from the lobby to the theater. -
Entrance
3 steps, available wheelchair lift and elevator Doors to theatre are opened manually by patrons -
Restroom
Both Men’s & Women’s: theatre level, accessible from lobby without stairs / Wheelchair-accessible stall, sink, paper towel dispenser, and changing table -
Telephone
None on premises -
Water Fountain
Located on the same level as the theater. -
Wheelchair Info
Wheelchair accessible seats are located in row AA. Seats in row A, in addition to seats in row AA, do not require steps to access. Our Box Office and House Management staff will gladly assist you -
Folding Armrests
None available -
Parking
Limited street parking. • Parking: ipark, 250 W. 19th St. .2 miles away, ramp, $21 for the night, hourly before 4PM -
Passenger Loading Zone
Front of Entrance - limited -
Visual Assistance
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