SCHEDULE:

Janusz Glowacki’s

THE FOURTH SISTER

translated by

Eva Nagorski and Janusz Glowacki

directed by

LISA PETERSON 

with
Jessica Hecht (Wiera)
Alicia Goranson (Tania)
Marin Hinkle (Katia)

Vineyard Theatre

108 East 15^th Street

(between Union Square and Irving Place)
Subways 4, 5, 6, N, R, L to Union Sq./14^th St.
Garage at 110 E. 16 for $5 after 5 PM with box office validation

Performance Schedule

Tuesday - Fridays @ 8, Saturdays @ 3 & 8 and Sundays @ 3
NO PERFORMANCE on Thursday, November 28

Post Show "TALKBACK" performances on November 26 and December 1

For tickets:

call (212) 353-0303, or e-mail  boxoffice@vineyardtheatre.org , or visit www.TheaterMania.com

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THE FOURTH SISTER had its world premiere in January of 2000, in Warsaw, Poland. It was produced in several theatres in Poland, Germany, and Slovenia, and won the grand prize at the 2001 International Theatre Festival in Dubrovnik.

Glowacki saw his international reputation as a major new playwright launched when he attended the opening of his play CINDERS at London’s Royal Court Theatre in December, 1981. The Guardian called the play "the best fringe production ...of the year." When martial law was declared in Poland that very month and Glowacki, like other Poles abroad, found himself stranded, he decided not to return to his country. He moved to New York in 1982, where he currently lives with his family. In1984, CINDERS was produced by Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival, starring Christopher Walken and directed by John Madden. Frank Rich wrote in The New York Times: "Extremely clever and provocative writing...Mr. Glowacki has a keen ability to mine the dark absurd humor in the language of terror and makes elegant Kafkaesque comedy out of his nation's ongoing nightmare of repression."

The tragi-comedy, FORTINBRAS GETS DRUNK, a macabre retelling of HAMLET from the Norwegian point of view, was the first play written by JANUSZ GLOWACKI in the USA The play received several stage readings -- at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Public Theatre and Roundabout Theatre, with the participation of Derek Jacoby, F. Murray Abraham, Raul Julia, Jeffrey DeMunn, and Philip Bosco, among others. The play was produced in Moscow, Cracow, Sarajevo, London, and Los Angeles.

GLOWACKI'S HUNTING COCKROACHES, was originally produced at the River Arts Repertory Company in Woodstock N.Y., then at the Manhattan Theatre Club, (starring Dianne Wiest and Ron Silver, directed by Arthur Penn), the Mark Taper Forum, (Swoosie Kurtz, Malcolm McDowell), Alley Theatre in Houston, Wisdom Bridge Theatre, Chicago, Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, and more than 40 other professional theatres in the US. The play was also produced in Sydney, Toronto, Marseilles, Lyon, Geneva, and Brussels (starring Jean Louis Trintignant). HUNTING COCKROACHES was cited by the American Theatre Critics Association as an Outstanding New Play in 1986. It received the Joseph Kesselring Award (1987) and the Hollywood Drama League Critics Award in 1987. Time Magazine as well as several other magazines named the play HUNTING COCKROACHES as one of the ten best plays of the year. Two monologues of the play were included in the anthology (SOLO-THE BEST MONOLOGUES OF THE 1980’s). The whole play is included in a collection of Janusz Glowacki's plays, published in May, 1990 by Northwestern University Press.

Glowacki’s play ANTIGONE IN NEW YORK, optioned by Arena Stage, was produced in Washington DC. In 1993 Time Magazine called it one of the 10 best plays of the year. The play was produced in Prague, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Bonn, Yale Repertory, Atlanta, New York (Vineyard Theatre), Mexico City, Croatia, Lithuania, Paris (where it received Le Balladine Award for the best play of 1997 in theatres of up to 250 seats) and in 9 theatres in Poland. The play has been translated into 20 languages.

In 1999 Glowacki’s screenplay, HAIRDO, won the Tony Cox Screenwriting Award in the Nantucket Film Festival Screenplay Competition.