LA MAMA 'CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH GOES TO UKRAINE'
**** NEW YORK CITY'S OFF BROADWAY **** Susan Hwang And Bob Holman La MaMa Experimental Theatre and Yara Arts Group will present "Captain John Smith Goes to Ukraine" February 27 to March 9. This experimental theater work, created by Bob Holman (Bowery Poetry Club), performance artist Susan Hwang, Ukrainian musician Julian Kytasty and director Virlana Tkacz, deals with Capt. Smith's adventures in Eastern Europe circa 1603, where he first met "other" people and gained experience that helped him prepare for dealing with Native Americans as founder of Jamestown. Everyone knows about Pocahontas, but few are aware that shortly before Smith first sailed for Virginia, he was an adventurer in the Mediterranean and fought against the Ottoman Turks. In 1602, he was captured and sold as a slave. His master, a Turkish nobleman, sent him as a gift to his mistress, who fell in love with him. Taken across the Black Sea, he escaped through wh...