Robert Sennett

CATNIP (which stands for Contemporary American Theater Now In Prague) has mined this territory before. Their productions of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire' were both well done and well received. But Phinneas Kiyomura is no David Mamet or Tennessee Williams.

The Trojan War: Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, Modern English verse translation by Lillian Groag; The Trojan Women by Euripides, new English translation by Guy Roberts and Rebecca Greene Udden. Directed by Guy Roberts and Rebecca Green Udden.

How did the words of the Providence, Rhode Island born writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft end up on the stage of a theatre in Central Europe? The answer lies in the work of Logan Hillier, creator of this production and one of the founders of the Blood, Love, and Rhetoric Theatre Company in Prague.

There is such a thing as a national sense of humor. Americans have the urban punsters of the Marx Brothers; the British have Monty Python's stoic eccentrics. And so it goes with Jara Cimrman and the Czech Republic.