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I don't think the play has been published but you could try AbeBooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Original Playwright - Dodo (Jozef) Gombár

The prologue introduces the audience to the play's game principle. A Stagehand finds a theatre scenario on the stage and starts reading it giving life to both the Man and the Woman characters. At the same time he becomes sort of a guide to the action, a lyric commentator and prime mover of the twelve scenes in the play stylised to represent the twelve months of a year. The scenes map different conflicts between men and women, real and bizarre, as seen from different angles. The individual months of the year help create a parable of the development of the lovers' relationship, its beginning, development and destruction. Sometimes it's a happy love, sometimes it's a split and parting, sometimes it's a young couple and sometimes an older one. The mood of the month in question is mirrored in the scene: January represents birth of love, February a conversation of the lovers in bed, etc. The finale of the play finds the Old Woman and the Old Man going to bed not because of sex but to get some sleep&

Huddersfield, England

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try AbeBooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Play/Drama

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The author recommends that each actor should play several characters

Original Playwright - Dodo (Jozef) Gombár. The play won the 2nd prize at the Alfréd Radok Awards 1999 (the 1st prize was not attributed that year).

A personal accounting of the protagonist just about to enter "serious life". Fragmented images from both his childhood (the relationship between his father and mother, his grandfather's death) and coming of age (his "gang", first love, drug experience) flick in front of his eyes. The play features strange, unsentimental but emotionally charged images full of sarcastic perspective and smiling bitterness. The through line is defined by saying goodbye and leaving... The death seems to play the lead role in Hugo's life. The Chekhovian mood of the trees being felled and loss of the old certitudes is expressed by contemporary language where the light conversation and strong language cover the anxiety and incertitude of one's own existence.