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David Drabek
Nationality: Czech (1970 - )
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dramatist, director and artistic head of the auteur of the Studio of the Burning Giraffe. Graduate of the Arts Faculty of the Palacký University in Olomouc in the field of film and theatre studies. At university he and Darek Král founded the Studio of the Burning Giraffe which specialises in modern cabaret. He is author and director of all the Studio's productions. From 1996-2001 he worked as dramaturge for the drama company of the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc. From 2001-2003 he led the new alternative stage Burning House. In 1995 he received the Alfréd Radok Award for best play for Joan of the Park. He received the Alfréd Radok Award for the best original play of 2003 for his play Aquabelles. In 2003 the publishing house Vetrné mlýny published a collection of seven of his plays. As author, director and dramaturge he works with the Klicpera Theatre in Hradec Králové and the Petr Bezruc Theatre in Ostrava. Drábek's texts are marked by an anecdotal and epigrammatic quality. A major source is film and television, whose styles he enjoys imitating parodying in his grotesque and cabaret texts and which are also a key theme of his dramas: kitsch, the media world, mass and commercial culture.

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Akvabely / Aquabelles 

David Drabek     Akvabely / Aquabelles
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A view of the contemporary generation of thirty-somethings. Three university friends conceive a secret hobby: they meet at a hidden reservoir and "dance" in the water. After school their paths had diverged. Kajetán had taken the post of TV moderator and became a true celebrity. Petr stayed at the university as a lecturer and continued his stubborn struggle against consumerism. However, the two friends are caught off guard by Filip. He decides to stay in the reservoir for ever, returning to an existence as a prehistoric water element. Things take off - Petr leaves his wife, Kajetán, influenced by the loss of his friend, causes a brawl in the TV studio. Over a few seconds their certainty has crumbled to dust. In spite of all its gags and humorous situations, the play is permeated with the nostalgia of a generation and in places even a frosty surreal quality.
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Parts Male
4
Female 6
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Alfréd Radok Award for the best original play of 2003

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