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Vera Borkovec

VERA BORKOVEC  

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below is a list of Vera Borkovec's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Goodbye Socrates         Hour Of Love         Migration Of Souls         Poker Face         Voices Of Birds

Goodbye Socrates

Synopsis:
the play was written in 1976 in the timeless period after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia and before the establishment of Charter '77. It is a portrait of an ageing artist, the sculptor Zak, whose fiftieth birthday is an occasion for his friends and acquaintances to meet. We see Zak in both creative and a personal crisis, which is partly a crisis of his relationship towards his wife. With the greatest self-denial, Malva has hitherto filled the thankless role of supporting for life a man whom she once admired. In the course of the evening, however, she loses the last bit of faith in him and departs this life in what could be a sudden death, but is more likely a voluntary one. Other characters begin to state their failures in life as well, and Topol's well-known conflict between life and death passes through their interiors and results in a chain of victories for death. the Socrates of the doubtlessly symbolic title is the tame raven which left Zak's 'house of broken hearts' before the beginning of the play, tragically marking the story with the loss of direction of an afflicted generation.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Josef Topol. Translated by James Naughton (British English). translated by Vera Borkovec (American English)

1st Produced:
Stavovske divadlo - estates theatre    12 Oct 1991

Organisations:
National Theatre Prague

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Hour Of Love

Synopsis:
In one hour el and ela experience all the happiness and unhappiness, all the endurance and the boredom of their lives, their love and their death. el comes with the news that he has to go away, seemingly for ever. after the intense experience of this event comes an anticlimactic reversal - and disappointment. el remains, and the flame of love changes into the ashes of every day. ela's auntie, the decrepit old lady who lives with them, becomes the witness to and bitter commentator on the 'hour of love'. This one-act play is one of Topol's classics, written for Otomar Krejca's theatre Beyond the Gate in the 1960s.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Josef Topol

1st Produced:
Theatre Beyond the Gate, Prague    1968

Organisations:
Divadlo za branou

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act Translation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Migration Of Souls

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Josef Topol

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Poker Face

Synopsis:
A tragicomedy about losing illusions about the Velvet Revolution, about losing illusions about today's world, and about the fact that many people nowadays put all their eggs in one basket. The story is set in two alternating timelines. The first one takes place just before the revolution (1988) and immediately afterwards, at the time of the general euphoria caused by the democratic changes; the second one is set before the 2011 Christmas during the time of general moral crisis and right after the death of Vaclav Havel symbolizing the end of post-November 1989 illusions of the Truth and Love. The heroine - young student in 1988 - becomes a solitary, ironic and bitter poker player by 2011, and, as a consequence, a millionaire. And she is confronted with her idealistic daughter Jana. . .

Notes:
Original Playwright - Petr Kolecko. Translated by Kristina Molnarova (British English). translated by Vera Borkovec (American English)

1st Produced:
Bratislava, Slovakia    Sep 2012

Organisations:
Gunagu Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Voices Of Birds

Voices Of Birds
an elderly actor, famous for his performance as Lear, has a sudden stroke and is forced to live a quiet and balanced life to which he is quite unaccustomed. He meets two of his illegitimate sons and their mothers, but is unable to find a way of getting close to people, whom until now he has tended just to use. He can only relax in the company of a young girl who is working with him on his memoirs, and whom he finally marries, only to find that this time it is he who is used. the young woman declares he is the father of the child which she is expecting with her lover, and when she drives him to a despairing gesture, has him certified as incapable of looking after his own affairs. He is moved out of his villa into a neighbouring chateau - a psychiatric hospital, where paradoxically he finds spiritual peace at the side of his housekeeper and her backward son (who we find out at the end of the play is also his). Topol wrote this play in 1988, after more then ten years of silence. It was first performed shortly before the November 1989 at the Divadlo na Vinohradech.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Josef Topol

1st Produced:
Divadlo na Vinohradech    1989

Organisations:
Divadlo na Vinohradech

1st Published:
Contained in: "Voices Of Birds and Other Plays" published by Xlibris Corporation 2000   978-14257800677

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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