" The Wild Finish is one of the most exciting theater pieces I've seen in years. An adventure story, a character festival, a mystery and an acrobatic comedy all at the same time. In this one-woman travelogue, Monica Hunken uses her transformative physical acting to carry her audiences from Los Angeles to Poland, introducing us to characters and situations only Monica would dare to face. If you want to know where theater can take you, get on Monica's bike."
- Stephen Wangh (author of An Acrobat of the Heart)
Arts Professor (ret), NYU Adjunct Faculty, Naropa University

"Monica Hunken, one of the eminent actresses of our time, has created a play about her grandfather that is both autobiographical and innovative.  An extraordinary artist, she is able to use her body and her voice - in fact several voices - to expand the theatrical vocabulary so that the spectator rides the myriad aspects of an extraordinary life - "The Wild Finish", through the phsyical and spiritual rigor of one multi-faceted actress."
-Judith Malina, Founder of The Living Theatre

Photos by Hunter Canning

Originally produced at:
The Living Theatre
21 Clinton Street between Houston and Stanton
New York, NY

THE WILD FINISH

On a snowy Easter Sunday, Monica embarked on a bicycle journey across the vodka-soaked roads of Poland in search of the man who haunts her–a man of power, genius, fame and violence–her grandfather. Along her path, she squats and pogos with anarchist punks in old factories, barely escapes a knifing by Neo-Nazis, hides in churches and is hypnotized in a para-theatrical workshop. You will be led by many eccentric guides through this surreal landscape; a mohawked bike messenger, Ingrid Bergman, a girl with a third eye and your bewildered hostess, Monica Dudarov Ossetynska Hunken, heiress to cult and Slavic royalty.