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ARNOST GOLDFLAM (1946 - ) |
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Nationality: Czech Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Aura-Pont Theatrical and Literary Agency |
Biography (one paragraph): Graduated in direction from the Janacek's Academy of Performing Arts (JAMU) in Brno. In 1978-1993 worked in the iconic theatre HaDivadlo as director, actor and playwright . Currently cooperates with theatres in Prague and in Hradec Kralove, writes plays, lectures on JAMU and occasionally acts. His dramas mostly reflect either the generation gap or exaggerates the trivial life situations and bring them to the extremes. The sense of grotesque realism, akwardness and satirical exaggeratings are his typical attributes.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Arnost Goldflam
Agathamania (Agatomanie) | ||
| 1st Produced: | ToDivadlo in Novy Jicin | 2002 | ||||
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 | #54778 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Arnost Goldflam | |||||
Synopsis: | A brilliant study of human powerlessness and anger. Two women are being questioned - apparently by the police of a totalitarian state. The first is a high-class prostitute for foreigners and people in high places, and a witness and informer on the second, which is being made to pay for having tried to help unhappy people around her, offering sympathy as well as practical help. With time, though, their gratitude has descended into uncritical worship and treating the woman like god on earth. Thus she bas become a victim of her own kindness, and now has no option but to protect herself from the vicious circle by escaping. | |||||
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Director's Box, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | HaDivadlo, Brno | 30 Nov 2004 | ||||
Organisations: | HaDivadlo (HaTheatre) | |||||
| 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 | #128931 | |||
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Genre: | translation comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Arnost Goldflam. The play was nominated for Alfred Radok Award - the Czech version of Olivier Awards - in the category of Play of the Year in 2004. | |||||
Synopsis: | Arnost Goldflam has several times turned to a theatre setting for his plays (The Ticket Girl, Debate with the Maestro, etc.). The Director's Box, takes place in an old folks' home, where two forgotten actors spend long hours together. With both irony and nostalgia they remember the past and try as best they can to recall the odd moments when they were truly happy. "I wanted to write about actors and their failings and faults, without emotion, rather about their human destinies," says Arnost Goldflam, "and I also wanted it to be with hindsight, not those times full of action, but what remained of them. " | |||||
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Dolls and Dollies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre in Reznicka Street, Prague | Mar 2009 | ||||
Organisations: | Divadlo v Reznicke | |||||
| 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 | #109244 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Arnost Goldflam | |||||
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. | |||||
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Green Room, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Klicpera Theatre, Hradec Kralove | 17 Dec 2005 | ||||
Organisations: | Klicpera Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #128932 | |||
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Genre: | translation comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Arnost Goldflam | |||||
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. | |||||
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I Be Someone Else (Ja Je Nekdo Jiny) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Klicpera Theatre in Hradec Kralove | 2003 | ||||
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 | #54779 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Arnost Goldflam. In 2001 the play won 3rd prize in a competition for an original new Czech play for the drama company of the National Theatre. | |||||
Synopsis: | In the middle of a family idyll, when the children are at school and Anna and Pavel are planning their trip to the new aquarium, an excruciating insecurity comes over Pavel: can he go on providing for his family and sheltering them from danger? In a fit of horror he strangles Anna. And wakes up - to reality? His partner Tereza is so distressed by the dream Pavel tells her that she sends him to a psychiatrist. However, the Doctor and Nurse suddenly change into maniacal beings. Returning home, he is welcomed by Granny and Mama who take off his little bootees and listen with amusement to his wild stories about strangled wives, children, partners and mad doctors. Father gets back from work, evidently a Kafkaesque dominator, crushing Pavel with his love and hate. To show everyone at home he is grown up, Pavel reads aloud a Polish story for children - and is immediately "lost" in it, meeting the heroine, a childishly cruel little girl called Jadwiga. When he wakes from his fairy-tale dream, all the characters from his earlier dreams - or realities - are gathered round his bed condemning him. Pavel orders them out of the flat - and wakes up again: this time as an old man who cannot remember who the old woman looking after him is. It is Tereza, the mother of his children, who knows nothing about any Anna, let alone Jadwig. The aging Pavel tries again, by the force of his own strength, to wake from another dream, the most terrible of all - reality. All the characters from his dreams gather round his death bed - the hospital staff. | |||||
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Sweet Theresienstadt | ||
| 1st Produced: | Archa Theatre Prague | 01 Nov 1996 | ||||
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 | #109245 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Arnost Goldflam | |||||
Synopsis: | This play is based on documents about life in the Theresienstadt ghetto, the biggest Nazi concentration camp in Bohemia. The main inspiration was the diary of the journalist Willy Mahler, not yet published for ethical reasons. The second source is a story about the shooting of a propaganda documentary giving the world a false idea that Jews were being cared for; this was the job of another prisoner, Kurt Gerron. (Mahler and Gerron both died in transports to the extermination camps.) In this free dramatic composition the two stories are interlinked. The filming is supervised by the leader of the camp Rahm. The author views the illusions "made" by Germans, the illusion of Rahm who had "personally nothing against the Jews", and more importantly the illusion in which both the main characters live, from an ironical distance. Gerron's naivete, the feeling of his own importance and his belief in favourable appreciation, and the romanticism of the apparently pragmatic Mahler, longing for his Prague love Marie, to whom he is "faithful in his soul"; the author is ironical mainly about self-deception. | |||||
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