The Pig or Václav Havel's Hunt for a Pig

THE PIG, OR VÁCLAV HAVEL'S HUNT FOR A PIG June 29 - July 2, 2011 SoHo Think Tank/Ohio Theater's ICE FACTORY New York City Václav Havel needs a pig he can slaughter and cook for a party with  his dissident friends. An American journalist arrives for an interview.  The villagers have a pig to sell, but where is it? And why is everyone singing The Bartered Bride? Food, drink, song, video, politics and celebration collide in this adaptation by experimental Czech director Vladimír Morávek of Havel’s text and Smetana’s music.

Untitled Theater Company No. 61, the company that brought you
The Havel Festival, presents the English-language premiere of this theatrical-musical-technological-gastronomic extravaganza, translated by Edward Einhorn and directed by Henry Akona. The play includes a traditional Czechoslovakian zabíjačka feast. New Yorker Magazine
listing click here.

For information about the series of plays by Havel published through

Theater 61 Press, a division of Untitled Theater Company #61, click here.