Troy as Mr. Stroll
Written by Václav Havel
Directed by Greg Abbott
Produced by Drama Tech Theatre
Winter 1991
Selected as part of the First International Theatre Festival to honor of Havel's recent election to the Czech presidency.
Havel said the play was inspired by the absurdities of life in Eastern Europe under Communism. It won an Obie Award for best foreign play. The play concerns the tribulations of a managing director of an organization encumbered by a bureaucracy that is out of control. The introduction of an artificial language, Ptydepe, is supposed to streamline office communications, but only makes it worse.
Fun fact: Troy picked up the language most quickly and naturally so, in order to help the actors sync on the pronounciations, made cassette language tapes for the cast with which to rehearse.