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DANIELA FISCHEROVA (1948 - ) |
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Nationality: Czech Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Aura-Pont Theatrical and Literary Agency |
Born 13 Feb 1948. Studied dramaturgy and script-writing at the ?lm Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and worked for a short time in Barrandov film Studios, then as an editor in Orbis publishing house. Has been a free-lance writer since 1974. She is the author or co-author of several feature, short and animated films. She writes poetry and prose for children and as well as radio plays. She found her most distinctive expression as an author of plays for the theatre and became the most original writer of drama at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s. Under Communism, the work of Fischerova and Karel Steigerwald was barely tolerated by the authorities, and created an alternative to the oficial stage.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Daniela Fischerova
Between Dog and Wolf | ||
| 1st Produced: | Realisticke divadlo ZN, Prague | 28938 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4346 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Daniela Fischerova | |||||
Synopsis: | This play, banned by the Communists in 1979 after its fourth performance, made a triuphant return to the stage in June 1989. Its hero is the first of the cursed poets, Francois Villon, and its story that of his life-ling inner struggle "between the dog and the wolf," or between his tame life in society and the lonely life of an individualist, an artist with inner freedom. The play is given the Brechtian framework of a modern court case against Villon. The reconstruction of his life does not, however, lead us to any solutions, but rather to more and more questions, which are piled on top of the fundamental problem of the conflict between the individual and society in the world of feudal power - but also in a totalitarian system. | |||||
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Hour Between Dog and Wolf, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Modern Women Playwrights of Europe" published by Oxford University Press, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #77248 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Daniela Fischerova | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hour Between Dog and Wolf, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Modern Women Playwrights of Europe" published by Oxford University Press, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #77249 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Daniela Fischerova | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Legend, A / A Tale | ||
| 1st Produced: | State Theatre Ostrava | 32109 | ||||
Organisations: | ?inohra Petra Bezru?e | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #110854 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Daniela Fischerova | |||||
Synopsis: | The legend of the play´s ambiguous title is the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Fischerova´s play also has the atmosphere of the mythical Middle Ages: the city with its organisations, ceremonies, superstitions and miracles, witchcraft and - inquisitions. Into this world comes Johan with his mysterious wife, who has been pregnant for far longer than she should have been. Johan finds asylum in Hamelin, but then unconsciously brings destruction on the whole city, because he has written off an inquisition and is now fleeing from the consequences of his act. The abbot refuses to hand him over to the inquisition´s emissary. Gradually we learn that Johan´s coming to Hamelin was not entirely at odds with the aims of the inquisition. The abbot has paradoxically needed the inquisition´s blesssing in order to protect the city from its influence - now he is getting on its wrong side again. Every choice seems to be predestined to be a mistake. The rebel city is isolated from the rest of the world and the pretext of it being rife with plague. Than the Pied Piper comes. This modern tragedy was one of the theatrical events of the period just before November 1989. | |||||
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Princess T | ||
| 1st Produced: | State Theatre Ostrava | 28 Oct 1986 | ||||
Organisations: | Divadlo Petra Bezruce | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #110855 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Daniela Fischerova | |||||
Synopsis: | Fischerova reconstructs a well-known storz as a cruel picture of a power struggle whose goal is the hand of the legendary Turandot. The princess destroys her suitors in her desire to reverse the wheel of history, to make use of the power inherited after the death of her father, and to establish more human conditions in the country. However, she becomes the necessary victim of her suppressed sensitivity, when her weakness is exploited by her even more cold-blooded adversary, the power-hungry and theatrically gifted Prince Kalaf. The happy end of Gozzi's fairy tale here, in the style of Durrenmatt, means a "turn for the worse". | |||||
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Sudden Misfortune | ||
| 1st Produced: | Viola, Prague | 01 June 1993 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #110856 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Daniela Fischerova | |||||
Synopsis: | A dramatic dialogue for a man and a woman whose fates, personalities and attitudes are inspired by the Biblical Job and the classical Niobe. Their meeting takes place in front of a semi-transparent mirror in a psychiatric sanatorium where both patients are in the department SA - Sudden Accident. They are waiting for visits from relations who do not turn up, and so are compelled to spend the long night alone just with the cruel truth about themselves. The text is based on confrontations: two religious traditions, the Jewish and the classical worlds, two distinctive human attitudes towards "the divine" - humility and revolt, which on an actual level permeate the patients' relationship to the doctor and to superior authority in general - the confrontation of the male and female principle (in the "lowest position", She is a neurotic and unstable drug addict and He is a religious fanatic and weakling). Paradoxically in the end both disclose testing the same knowledge which brings them close in a symbolic embrace - their uncertainty about the existence of God and at the same time their longing for it. | |||||
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