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PETR KOLECKO (1984 - ) |
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Nationality: Czech Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Aura-Pont Theatrical and Literary Agency |
Studied dramaturgy and playwriting at the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) in Prague. A prolific playwright since his early years of studies. His first play staged in professional theatre was Without Orientation, opened in Theatre Na Pradle, Prague in 2004. For two of his plays he was awarded Evald Schorm Prize, the prize for young authors in the Czech republic. He participated in Royal Court Theatre International Residencies in 2008. He also works with the Czech radio and various TV companies. Beside theatre he is also active in music. During the years 2003-2005 he was a member of a Brit pop group The Slots, having played saxophone. Now he occasionally works as a lyrics writer for Czech groups, writing lyrics both in Czech and English.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Petr Kolecko
Britney Goes to Heaven | ||
| 1st Produced: | Petr Bezruc Theatre, Ostrava | 2005 | ||||
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 | #110866 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Petr Kolecko | |||||
Synopsis: | Five dead people meet in an intertemporal interspace. They are bored, don't understand each other, don't know where they ended up or where they are going. Each of them deals with the situation in his or her own way. Britney Spears rehearses new elements for her dance creation - but she lacks an audience; under-age soccer fan Hool keeps smoking and giving Nazi salute, beating everybody up and waiting for "one hundred skinheads with their saxophones"; the alcoholic failed mother Marie tries to put together a Holy Family; a mafioso called Bruno uses routines from psychologic interrogations shooting left and right; Kolben the worker fulfils his deepest and most intimate dreams and gets away scot free... But all of these characters aim to get to Heaven. During their "stay" each of them goes through various therapies, both group and individual, led by Gabriel the Angel, and finds gradually out they are all involved in a quirky reality show with promotion to Heaven at stake. The play begins. How far are these "people" ready to go in order to win? Which means do they plan using? How can Gabriel the Angel deal with all this? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gods Don't Play (Ice-)Hockey, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Drama Studio, Ústi nad Labem | 2008 | ||||
Organisations: | Cinoherni studio | |||||
| 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 | #110867 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Petr Kolecko | |||||
Synopsis: | Tomaa is a full back in a local extra-league ice-hockey team famous for his tough and unyielding approach. In his private life, though, he is a very sensitive, poem-writing man. Kristian is a folk singer neither very well known nor successful. He is in fact a total opposite of Tomaa: he tries to write lyric songs but is very cynical in his personal life. One day they both meet in a bar, become friends after an initial quarrel, and their lives are changed. Moreover, an 18 year old Gypsy called Zaneta gets involved in their lives. . .A comedy with some elements of Ancient Greek tragedy is set in the milieu of the lowest classes in an industrial town in the North of the Czech Republic. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Poker Face | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bratislava, Slovakia | Sep 2012 | ||||
Organisations: | Gunagu 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 | # | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Petr Kolecko. Translated by Kristina Molnarova (British English). translated by Vera Borkovec (American English) | |||||
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. . . | |||||
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Poker Face | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bratislava, Slovakia | Sep 2012 | ||||
Organisations: | Gunagu 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 | # | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Petr Kolecko. Translated by Kristina Molnarova (British English). translated by Vera Borkovec (American English) | |||||
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. . . | |||||
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