[NEohioPAL] Sokol Greater Cleveland offers an iconic comedy adapted from the greatest literary work to come out of the First World War

[Georgia Maresh via NEohioPAL]

Sokol Greater Cleveland
Vcelka Players
present a comedy
The
Good Captain Svejk
Based on Jaroslav Hašek's world-famous satirical farce
The Good Soldier Švejk
It's 1919 and the good Soldier Svejk
is coming to America
to advise the United States on military tactics
Saturday,
September 27, 2014 - 7 pm
Sunday, September 28, 2014
- 3 pm

Bohemian
National Hall Ballroom
4939
Broadway Avenue, Cleveland OH
Admission
$8.00 advance sales
$10.00 at the door
Money back guarantee if you leave before the end of intermission
Reservations
216-642-9012Sokol Greater Cleveland offers an iconic
play the weekend of September 27 and 28 to coincide with their monthly ethnic Sunday
dinner.  The play, titled “The Good Captain Svejk,” is an
adaptation of The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the
World War,” written by the famous Czech author and anarchist, Jaroslav
Hasek.  This novel is  the most recognized and translated Czech
fiction, and considered the greatest literary work to come out of the First
World War.  The adapted comedy is written
and directed by a local Czech, Joseph Bachna, and performed, in English, by the
Sokol Czech Cultural Center’s Vcelka Players.  Curtain time for the Saturday evening performance is 7 pm.  The Sunday matinee performance is at 3 pm,
following a traditional Czech dinner of pork, dumplings and sauerkraut.  Both the dinner and the play are held in the
historic Bohemian National Hall, 4939 Broadway Avenue in Cleveland.  Attend both or either one.
“The
Good Soldier Svejk,” the abbreviated title of the original work, is said to be
one of the greatest satirical novels of the 20thcentury.  The novel chronicles the irreverent  misadventures of Josef Svejk, the ‘everyman’  who survives  the hypocrisies of his day by being the wisest  fool.  While
Hasek’s novel is set in Austria-Hungary at the time of WW I, Bachna’s play
takes place after the war when the bumbling Good Soldier, only to be rid of
him, is promoted to Captain and sent to America as a military adviser.  Bachna’s storyline includes the absurdly comic
situations of the Good Soldier while weaving a bit of history into the plot.   It’s unlikely you’d find a Czech who
doesn’t  know the comic round-faced,
beer-loving  Svejk character.  He has become  a folklore icon inspiring  movies, an opera, Svejk-styled  items  and even pubs around the world.   If you haven’t been introduced to Svejk, now
is your opportunity.  Door admission for
the play is $10 but advance reservations are $8  and can be made by phoning 216-642-9012.  Bachna is so sure you will enjoy his
adaptation, a money-back guarantee is offered if you leave before the end of
intermission.
Bohemian
National Hall is located at 4939 Broadway Avenue in Cleveland, off the Pershing
exit of I-77 North.   The Hall is handicapped accessible.  Parking is free.  Further information about Sokol Greater
Cleveland, the Czech Cultural Center events and future dinners can be found at
the organization’s website:  http://www.sokolgreatercleveland.org
Or for information about the play and the Vcelka Drama group go to http://www.sokolgreatercleveland.org/VcelkaDramatics.html
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