La Mama
February 27 – March 9, 2014
La Mama’s First Floor Theatre
74 East 4th St, NYC
Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm plus Sunday at 2:30pm
Created and Performed by Bob Holman, Susan Hwang and Julian Kytasty
Conceived & Directed by Virlana Tkacz
You know all about Pocahontas, now see what happened first!
In 1607 Capt. John Smith founded Jamestown, the first English settlement in America…but in 1603 he was in Kolomyia, Ukraine! Based on Smith’s own writing about his adventures fighting in the Turkish wars in Eastern Europe before he came to America, Capt. John Smith Goes to Ukraine includes traditional Ukrainian epic songs known as “dumas” and wild new songs written by Susan Hwang which she performs accompanying herself on the accordion, as well as over the top love poetry by Bob Holman. It’s an epic in an hour that resonates with today’s news headlines from Ukraine.
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