Description

—After both performances of Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists, audience members who wish to discuss the show are invited to stay for a brief conversation moderated by Thomas Bartscherer, the Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College and Senior Fellow at Bard’s Hannah Arendt Center.

—On Tuesday, July 9th, 2024, 10-11am EDT, PS21 and Executive and Artistic Director Elena Siyanko invite actor Romeu Costa and Thomas Bartscherer to participate in an online discussion focusing on the ethical, political, and aesthetic questions raised by Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists.

These questions include: how do democratic societies deal with political violence? what role, if any, can the arts play in facilitating political self-understanding of individuals and of social and political collectivities? What responsibilities do artists and arts organizations have when it comes to works that portray violence? The event is free and open to the public.

Please register here to receive the Zoom link: [registration link TK]

We have prepared a reader with four texts (contents below) that provides some context for thinking about the ethical, political, and aesthetic questions raised by Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists. If you’re interested or curious, you may wish to read one or more of these texts before or after the show.

Reader
Table of Contents

1. Hannah Arendt, On Violence, Part II (1969-1970)

2. Bertolt Brecht, “Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction” (1935)

3. Robert O. Paxton, “What is Fascism?”, from The Anatomy of Fascsism (2004)

4. Andrew Marantz, “Why We Can’t Stop Arguing About Whether Trump Is a Fascist”, The New Yorker, 27 March 2024

Date & Time

Tue, Jul 9, 2024 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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