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JAMES NAUGHTON |
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Plays by James Naughton |
Goodbye Socrates | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stavovske divadlo - Estates Theatre | 12 Oct 1991 | ||||
Company: | National Theatre Prague | |||||
| 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 | #110881 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Josef Topol. Translated by James Naughton (British English). translated by Vera Borkovec (American English) | |||||
Synopsis: | The play was written in 1976 in the timeless period after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia and before the establishment of Charter '77. It is a portrait of an ageing artist, the sculptor Zak, whose fiftieth birthday is an occasion for his friends and acquaintances to meet. We see Zak in both creative and a personal crisis, which is partly a crisis of his relationship towards his wife. With the greatest self-denial, Malva has hitherto filled the thankless role of supporting for life a man whom she once admired. In the course of the evening, however, she loses the last bit of faith in him and departs this life in what could be a sudden death, but is more likely a voluntary one. Other characters begin to state their failures in life as well, and Topol's well-known conflict between life and death passes through their interiors and results in a chain of victories for death. The Socrates of the doubtlessly symbolic title is the tame raven which left Zak's 'house of broken hearts' before the beginning of the play, tragically marking the story with the loss of direction of an afflicted generation. | |||||
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