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DAVID NYKL
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22 Anxiety Street /Stisnena 2222 Anxiety Street /Stisnena 22
Synopsis:
the author wrote the text in the style of a musical composition - a polyphony of voices on the staircase of an old house, putting together fragments of the destinies of individual inhabitants. As adapted for this production, it was made more concrete and the story more topical; relationships between the characters were worked out in more detail and the setting changed to a gymnasium (used as a temporary refuge for the inhabitants of the house). the centre of attention is the "space" in which all the inhabitants are obliged to live together. the Woman walks through them and, from overheard scraps of conversation, micro-stories of the people living here are put together. In particular, she meets women who represent different stages of her life. the Woman thus looks at her own situation from the point of view of others' experience (she is deciding whether she wishes to go on meeting the Man). the ghost of the Pregnant Woman passes through the house; in the past, in fear of a difficult pregnancy, she threw herself under a car belonging to one of the inhabitants of the house. An Older Woman has solved nothing, she is locked into a childless marriage with "no cares"; perhaps only for her dog which is killed from jealousy by the lover she turned down years ago. the Lady comes from quite another time, a survivor from the old days who no longer wants to live in a world she doesn't understand and which doesn't understand her. their adversaries are the men: Man, Her Man, Gentleman, Doctor and the homosexual couple Young Man and Older Man. the life stories flow side by side, or only slightly mesh together. At the end the lovers make up their quarrels, the man guilty of the road accident owns up in front of everyone, and the marital triangle reaches reconciliation
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Original Playwright - Iva Volankova
1st Produced:
National Theatre, Prague 2003
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Male: 6 Female: 4 Other: -
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