What role can Avant Bard play in resisting the nihilism, intolerance, and authoritarianism plaguing the world? As part of Season 36, we offer The Resistance Readings, staged readings and other fortifying acts on select Sundays throughout 2026 at The Filling Station in Arlington, VA. Select “Buy Tickets” to reserve your seat!
Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, 2:00 p.m.
In Rhinoceros, Ionesco depicts a human being witnessing everyone around them turning into rhinoceroses one by one—a representation of the ideological conformism Ionesco witnessed during the rise of the fascist Iron Guard in Romania in the 1930s. Tyler Herman’s adaptation vividly and humorously brings to the stage the various forms of the fascistic conformity of our own time that threaten the future of democracy and rule of law.
Food & drink will be available for purchase.
Past Resistance Readings
December 2025
The Deplorable by Seamus Miller
The Deplorable is a history play for the present. Episodes (both real and imagined) from the American Revolution and Civil War collide with actual congressional testimony from four police officers in the aftermath of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.