Patrick Dewane’s one-man show is returning to Two Rivers to help fundraise for the Washington House Museum.
The Two Rivers Historical Society is having the fundraising event in the Grand Ballroom of The Washington House Museum in Two Rivers on July 27th at 7:00 p.m.
Dewane’s award-winning one-man show, “The Accidental Hero”, has been performed more than 200 times across the country and even in Europe.
The Roncalli High School graduate has had a 40-year career with the performing arts and has spent his time doing senior-level work with The Dance Theatre of Harmel, Luciano Pavarotti, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Minnesota Opera, and its Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, Silent Night.
He also recently published a book titled “The Colonel from Two Rivers: Matt Konop’s World War II Odyssey to His Czech Roots”; the book is a written version of Dewane’s performance.
The true story that the show and book are rooted from is about Lieutenant Colonel Matt Konop from Two Rivers, WI.
Fluent in Czech, Konop’s language skills became crucial in the final week of World War II, leading to his command in liberating Czechoslovakia.
Remarkably, he was sent to the same village his grandparents had emigrated from in the 1860s.
Celebrated as a hero by the Czechs, this experience transformed his view of his Bohemian heritage.
Despite his silence about the war and the Communist regime’s suppression of his story, Konop’s forgotten manuscript was later discovered by his grandson, Dewane.
For more details on Patrick Dwane and Matt Konop, visit “The Accidental Hero” website, and to purchase tickets for the performance and Two Rivers Historical Society fundraiser, visit tworivers-history.org.
