Travels With A Masked Man – A Look Behind The Curtain Of The 1960s CIA

Hubbard Hall Theater Company Artistic Director John Hadden brings us a new version of his solo theater piece, Travels with a Masked Man, based upon interviews with his father who was the CIA station chief in Israel during the 1967 Six Day War. It is a play about deception, “the game” of espionage and rough filial love.
In speaking of his solo piece, Hadden said, “Soon after the attack on the twin towers in 2001, I taped and transcribed 20 hours of interviews with my father. The project started as a book, an excerpt of which was published in the 2006 American Letters and Commentary. From the beginning, bits of it started to appear as theater material for small audiences at bookstores and living rooms. In 2007 there was a two actor version at Firehouse 13 in Providence, RI, in a sand and corpse strewn installation protesting the massacre at Haditha. A completely revised version survived at the Hubbard Hall Freight Depot Theater in early 2011, so it went into another revision at the Theater Project in Brunswick, ME. Now, having worked and performed it again with We Players in San Francisco, I offer this next phase of it to you here in the Freight Depot.”
John Hadden was recently seen as Salieri in Amadeus. Plays he has directed at Hubbard Hall include Hadrian VII, The Madwoman of Chaillot and The Night of the Iguana.
Performances will take place on Friday, November 2, at 8 pm and Sunday, November 4, at 2 pm in the Freight Depot Theater behind Hubbard Hall. Admission is pay what you will, at the door, with a suggested donation of $20. Advance tickets may be purchased for $20.
Hubbard Hall is located at 25 East Main Street in Cambridge, NY. For more information on this and all Hubbard Hall programs, or to purchase tickets, register for classes, or to become a member or theatre subscriber, please visit www.hubbardhall.org or call 518-677-2495.