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The Wild Finish is one of the most exciting theater pieces I've seen in years. If you want to know where theater can take you, get on Monica's bike.
- Stephen Wangh, author of An Acrobat of the Heart: A Physical Approach to Acting Inspired by the Work of Jerzy Grotowski; Arts Professor (ret), NYU; Adjunct Faculty, Naropa University

Monica Hunken, one of the eminent actresses of our time, has created a play about her grandfather that is both autobiographical and innovative. An extraordinary artist, she is able to use her body and her voice - in fact several voices - to expand the theatrical vocabulary so that the spectator rides the myriad aspects of an extraordinary life - The Wild Finish, through the physical and spiritual rigor of one multi-faceted actress.
-Judith Malina, Founder of The Living Theatre

Hunken is a monologist to be watched. This is solo performance at its very best.
-NYTheatre.com

On a snowy Easter Sunday, Monica embarked on a lone bicycle journey across Poland in search of the man who haunts her, a man of power, genius, fame and violence; her grandfather, Leonidas Dudarew-Ossetynski. With an old address book, the spirit of Grotowski and the hard lessons of punk rock anarchists to guide her, she reveals a story of exile, love and justice spanning three generations of a family's survival. Along her path, she squats and pogos with anarchist punks in old factories, barely escapes a knifing by Neo-Nazis, hides in churches and is hypnotized in a para-theatrical workshop. You will be led by many eccentric guides through this surreal landscape; a mohawked bike messenger, the ghost of a Norwegian bride, a girl with a third eye and your bewildered hostess, Monica Dudarew-Ossetynska Hunken, heiress to cult and Slavic royalty.

Presented by The Polish Cultural Institute New York and The Culture Project.

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