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EVA DANICKOVA
Nationality: Cech
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Dolls And Dollies Green Room, The TraklDolls And Dollies
Synopsis:
at the beginning, the new play by Goldflam pretends to be a probe into the life of a family made up of several generations, and exclusively of women. a seven-year old girl opens the play with a monologue introducing the audience to her dolls. But the grotesque, fake-motherly relationship she has with the dolls will soon introduce a darker theme of the play - the theme of power pecking order inside the family, manipulation linked to the hierarchy, and changes in these relationships as people get more mature and older. the "conversation" is gradually joined by the girl's teenage sister, cynical and rough, and their senile great-grandmother. the old woman is being chased away together with her weird stories about the old world by the mother of both girls who keeps venting her anger on her. But the mother herself is treated roughly by her own mother - the grandmother, obviously a woman at the peak of her power, is an "indispensable" ruler of the family. the five women go through situations brought in by family life and dominated by common meals. But, with the same spontaneity, they look into basic situations of life as such. the relationships keep escalating in rough dialogues and contrasted soliloquies and litanies, prose morphs into verse, song and dance resulting in physical duels. the play hovers on a thin border between reality and the Surreal, between slapstick and horror.
Notes:
Original Playwright - Arnost Goldflam
1st Produced:
Theatre in Reznicka Street, Prague Mar 2009
Organisations:
Divadlo v Reznicke
1st Published:
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Music:
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Translation
Parts:
Male: - Female: 6 Other: -
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Top of PageGreen Room, The
Synopsis:
encounters and conversations in a theatre dressing room bring us an insight into the destinies of four actresses. a new man has just entered Marie's life. She's experiencing the first rapture and subsequent disenchantment when, just as she discovers she's pregnant, he rejects the child. Her colleague Truda, who has a small daughter, has been abandoned by her husband several times. the youngest, Klara, is naturally longing for good parts, a career and success in the theatre. the oldest, Liza, is sorting out the meaning of an actor's vocation at a general level. In all four generations it's possible to follow the often interwoven personal and professional problems the actresses come up against. the actresses' conversations take place in the dressing room before and during the performance, while they are getting changed, preparing to go onstage, or returning.
Notes:
Original Playwright - Arnost Goldflam
1st Produced:
Klicpera Theatre, Hradec Kralove 38703
Organisations:
Klicpera Theatre
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
translation comedy
Parts:
Male: - Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageTrakl
Synopsis:
scenes from a poet's life. the play is freely inspired by the life and personality of the expressionist poet Georg Trakl. Horos?ak's Trakl takes place as though it were a single moment when Trakl, who was sent as a doctor to the front during World War I, shoots himself in the field hospital. During one dizzy moment the most important events of his life pass before his eyes.Trakl meets his friend Karl, his sister Greta (with whom he connected by more than brotherly love) and his girl friend, the prostitute Sonia. His anxiety and depression he tries to solve through experiments with various drugs, and he comes into conflict with the police - he is suspected of the murder of a little girl. In the middle of the fury of war he is unable to bear any more of the cruelty of reality and shoots himself. as an embodiment of the spirit of a time which is over, the last austro-Hungarian emperor, Franz Josef passes through the play. the ever-present figure of the emperor is the paternal, authoritative antithesis of Trakl. Horos?ak sets their speeches in close conjunction and thus expresses the polarity of the life experience of the doomed poet and claims which the supreme authority of society thoughtlessly affirms. excerpts from Trakl's poetry are used in the play, colourful visions arising from expressionism are projected in poetic stage directions.
Notes:
Original Playwright - Marek Horoscak
1st Produced:
Theatre on the Balustrades, Prague Nov 2000
Organisations:
Na Zabradli Theatre - staged reading
1st Published:
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Music:
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Parts:
Male: 9 Female: 2 Other: -
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