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ToDivadlo in Novy Jicin

2002

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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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Synopsis: A brilliant study of human powerlessness and anger. Two women are being questioned - apparently by the police of a totalitarian state. The first is a high-class prostitute for foreigners and people in high places, and a witness and informer on the second, which is being made to pay for having tried to help unhappy people around her, offering sympathy as well as practical help. With time, though, their gratitude has descended into uncritical worship and treating the woman like god on earth. Thus she bas become a victim of her own kindness, and now has no option but to protect herself from the vicious circle by escaping.

Klicpera Theatre in Hradec Kralove

2003

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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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Notes: In 2001 the play won 3rd prize in a competition for an original new Czech play for the drama company of the National Theatre.

Synopsis: In the middle of a family idyll, when the children are at school and Anna and Pavel are planning their trip to the new aquarium, an excruciating insecurity comes over Pavel: can he go on providing for his family and sheltering them from danger? In a fit of horror he strangles Anna. And wakes up - to reality? His partner Tereza is so distressed by the dream Pavel tells her that she sends him to a psychiatrist. However, the Doctor and Nurse suddenly change into maniacal beings. Returning home, he is welcomed by Granny and Mama who take off his little bootees and listen with amusement to his wild stories about strangled wives, children, partners and mad doctors. Father gets back from work, evidently a Kafkaesque dominator, crushing Pavel with his love and hate. To show everyone at home he is grown up, Pavel reads aloud a Polish story for children - and is immediately "lost" in it, meeting the heroine, a childishly cruel little girl called Jadwiga. When he wakes from his fairy-tale dream, all the characters from his earlier dreams - or realities - are gathered round his bed condemning him. Pavel orders them out of the flat - and wakes up again: this time as an old man who cannot remember who the old woman looking after him is. It is Tereza, the mother of his children, who knows nothing about any Anna, let alone Jadwig. The aging Pavel tries again, by the force of his own strength, to wake from another dream, the most terrible of all - reality. All the characters from his dreams gather round his death bed - the hospital staff.