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MAREK HOROSCAK |
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Nationality: Czech Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Aura-Pont Theatrical and Literary Agency |
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Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Marek Horoscak |
Boiled Heads (Vareny Hlavy) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Husa na provazku theatre, Brno | 2001 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #54777 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Marek Horoscak. Boiled Heads was awarded second prize in the competition for the best original Czech or Slovak play awarded by the Alfred Radok Foundation in 1999 | |||||
Synopsis: | A middle-aged married couple, Miriam and Karel, live in isolation in the middle of a forest. However, in the course of one night several intruders force their way into their house. The first is a girl at the age of puberty, Linda, who insists she is looking for her runaway cat in the forest. Karel, who is suspicious, nevertheless allows her to sleep in one of their rooms, which for security he locks. Immediately afterwards a car crashes not far from the house and two injured young men try to gain access to the house. The multiple coincidences have fateful results for the characters. Linda pretends that she is Karel's stepdaughter; she swears at him and complains to Miriam. It is not clear whether she is only being provocative or whether she is ventilating a real trauma. Karel goes along with her game. Both the new arrivals find it strange that a father should lock his daughter in her room, and try somehow to intervene in the row. Linda brings the whole argument to an end when accompanied by one of the youths she runs away into the forest. The other youth has to stay in the cottage because of a broken leg. Early the next day Karel takes him to hospital, in advance cutting off part of his ear as a warning. The young threesome decide not to leave the situation just like that. They succeed in persuading the pub lady-killer J.T. to set out for the cottage with a pistol and scare the couple a little bit. However, Linda and J.T.'s retaliatory measures end quite unexpectedly - Karel and Miriam eventually overcome the attackers and literally boil their heads. The text balances on the edge between a cool thriller and an ironic black grotesque. | |||||
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Trakl | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre on the Balustrades, Prague | Nov 2000 | ||||
Organisations: | Na Zabradli Theatre - staged reading | |||||
| 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 | #109237 | |||
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: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Marek Horoscak | |||||
Synopsis: | scenes from a poet's life. The play is freely inspired by the life and personality of the Expressionist poet Georg Trakl. Horoa?ak's Trakl takes place as though it were a single moment when Trakl, who was sent as a doctor to the front during World War I, shoots himself in the field hospital. During one dizzy moment the most important events of his life pass before his eyes.Trakl meets his friend Karl, his sister Greta (with whom he connected by more than brotherly love) and his girl friend, the prostitute Sonia. His anxiety and depression he tries to solve through experiments with various drugs, and he comes into conflict with the police - he is suspected of the murder of a little girl. In the middle of the fury of war he is unable to bear any more of the cruelty of reality and shoots himself. As an embodiment of the spirit of a time which is over, the last Austro-Hungarian Emperor, Franz Josef passes through the play. The ever-present figure of the Emperor is the paternal, authoritative antithesis of Trakl. Horoa?ak sets their speeches in close conjunction and thus expresses the polarity of the life experience of the doomed poet and claims which the supreme authority of society thoughtlessly affirms. Excerpts from Trakl's poetry are used in the play, colourful visions arising from Expressionism are projected in poetic stage directions. | |||||
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