March 3, 2012, Saturday - Picnic on the Battlefield Opens at Southern Theater

Location:  Southern Theater 1420 Washington Avenue South

Performing March 3–18, 2012

An original tragicomedy about the absurdities of war.

Presented by Theatre Novi Most.

Picnic on the Battlefield begins with Zapo, a soldier from a nameless country, as he comes faceto-face with his greatest horror: an unannounced visit from his parents; they’ve arrived on the battlefield to cheer up their despondent son with a picnic. As the bombs continue to fall around them, and as the family accidentally captures an enemy soldier named Zepo, Zapo continuously struggles to balance his job as a soldier and entertaining his overbearing folks.

Decades later, two former war medics share a hotel room built on the very same battlefield. In the middle of the night, they are visited by a beautiful young woman, except they can’t decide if she is real or a dream. And if the former medics are dreaming, who is dreaming whom? Picnic on the Battlefield weaves two plays from two different decades (from two separate parts of the world) in surprising ways, retaining the purity of each piece while also creating an entertaining commentary bigger than the sum of its parts.
 
Pre-sale tickets available through Brown Paper Tickets.  Direct link and additional information at http://www.theatrenovimost.org/picnic.html.