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The Guildford Acting School produced Rock 'N' Roll in 2023 from 25 to 27 May which featured MA & MFA Acting students in collaboration with BA Theatre Production and MA Stage & Production Management students
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Belmont Abbey College, Charlotte NC – Academics | Performing Arts – The Performing Arts Season Schedule – Liberal Arts:Catholic Benedictine heritage
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Joy Zinoman, Founding Artistic Director of The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC, will direct the play beginning 22 April 2009.
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A Broadway (New York City) run of the play commenced in previews on 19 October 2007 and opened on 4 November 2007 at the
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is another recurrent motif; its pagan sensualism is implicitly compared with the anarchic erotic force of rock music.
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that year in Prague. Recurrent references are made to a glimpse by one of the main characters of the young
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The Sydney Theatre, Sydney, production by the Melbourne Theatre Company from 11 April 2008 to 17 May 2008
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Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Oyuncuları (YUO) started rehearsals in November 2010 for a Turkish production.
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The play takes place over several decades, from the late 1960s until 1990, ending with a concert given by
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The Kavinoky Theatre in Buffalo, New York produced "Rock 'N' Roll" in 2011 from 4 March to 3 April
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in Seattle produced the play as part of their 2009 Season between 9 October and 8 November 2009.
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and became a symbol of the resistance. A number of Havel's friends then wrote their own
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are held up by another character as an ideal of resistance to Communism. The poetry of
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presented the first Japan production of the play at the Setagaya public theatre in
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beginning 24 April 2009, directed by Alley Theatre Artistic Director Gregory Boyd.
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The premiere of the play was attended by first president of the post-Communist
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One of the characters, a Czech writer, is named Ferdinand as an homage to
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produced Rock 'N' Roll in 2023 from 6 December 2023 to 27 January 2024.
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and ran from 3 June until 15 July 2006. It then transferred to the
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in Ealing, West London, from 19 December 2009 to 2 January 2010.
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in Montréal Quebec in January 2009 directed by Douglas Buchanan.
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before an announced transfer to Broadway in the autumn of 2007.
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in their 2009–2010 season between 28 September and 24 October.
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of Chicago hosted a production from 2 May through 7 June 2009.
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The first UK production of the play outside London was at the
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American Conservatory Theater: Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll
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The San Jose Stage Company presented a new production of
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beginning 15 January 2010, directed by Mary M. Finnerty.
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professor, who unrepentantly continues to believe in the
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Milan, Police Officer 2, Jaroslav – Martin Chamberlain
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Park Square Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota produced
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Taking over from the principal actors mid-run were:
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Index

Tom Stoppard
State Security
State Security
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Cambridge
Tom Stoppard
Royal Court Theatre
rock and roll
Eastern-Bloc
Czechoslovakia
Prague Spring
Velvet Revolution
Cambridge
Marxist
Soviet
the Rolling Stones
Syd Barrett
the Plastic People of the Universe
Sappho
Václav Havel
Ferdinand Vaněk
samizdat
Vaněk plays
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Professional Foul
Royal Court Theatre
Duke of York's Theatre

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