Game's Not Over
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GAME’S NOT OVER © Institut umění – Divadelní ústav, Aura-Pont, DILIA ISBN 978-80-7008-265-2 (pdf) ISBN 978-80-7008-278-2 (epub) ISBN 978-80-7008-279-9 (mobi) SCORE 2011 LIVES 12 GAME’S NOT OVER New Czech Plays (not only) for Your Tablet / E-Reader Special Bonus: Two Brand New Plays from Slovakia Radmila Adamová David Drábek Vladislava Fekete Magdaléna Frydrych Gregorová Arnošt Goldfl am Václav Havel Viliam Klimáček Petr Kolečko Kateřina Rudčenková Roman Sikora Milan Uhde Petr Zelenka Content Martina Černá New Czech (and Slovak) Plays: The Game is not over 7 Radmila Adamová Profi le 10 The Elle Girls 11 David Drábek Profi le 55 The Coast of Bohemia 58 Magdaléna Frydrych Gregorová Profi le 132 Dorotka 133 Arnošt Goldfl am Profi le 179 Dolls and Dollies 181 Václav Havel Profi le 217 Leaving 220 Petr Kolečko: Profi le 284 Gods Don’t Play Ice Hockey 286 Kateřina Rudčenková: Profi le 332 A Time of Cherry Smoke 334 Roman Sikora: Profi le 372 The Confession of a Masochist 375 Milan Uhde: Profi le 434 The Miracle at the Black House 437 Petr Zelenka: Profi le 502 Coming Clean 504 BONUS: Vladislava Fekete: Profi le 578 Brief Connections 579 Viliam Klimáček: Profi le 617 I am the Kraftwerk 621 About Arts and Theatre Institute 694 About Aura-Pont 698 About DILIA 700 New Czech (and Slovak) Plays: The Game is not over Th e electronic book GAME’S NOT OVER – New Czech Plays (not only) for Your Tablet / E-Reader brings you recent plays by Czech authors. Th ough the publication includes a broad spectrum of playwrights – beginning with the youngest generation up to 35 years of age (Radmila Adamová, Magdaléna Frydrych Gregorová, Petr Kolečko, Kateřina Rudčenková), middle-aged authors (David Drábek, Roman Sikora, Petr Zelenka), and also mature doyens of the Czech cultural scene (Arnošt Goldfl am, Václav Havel, Milan Uhde) – all authors included are currently active personalities who have participated in contemporary Czech theatre not only in the roles of playwrights and authors but also as literary managers, directors and / or artistic directors. Two Slovak authors – Vladislava Fekete and Viliam Klimáček – are included as a special bonus in the publication. Despite 20 years having passed since the division of Czechoslovakia, the understanding of Slovak theatre as a foreign element has still not entirely taken place. Th is is not merely because of the language similarity, but also because of the persistent interconnection of the Czech and Slovak theatre worlds. Proof of this can be found at the most prestigious dramatic competition in the fi eld of contemporary drama in the Czech Republic, which is awarded by the Alfréd Radok Foundation – here, both Czech and Slovak authors can participate annually with new original plays. Th e dates of creation of the individual titles in the e-book GAME’S NOT OVER – New Czech Plays (not only) for Your Tablet / E-Reader, begin with 2004, and end with brand new Czech and Slovak plays from 2010. Even so, all of these published plays have 7 already found their way to Czech stages, and many of them have also found top places at the Alfréd Radok Awards. Th e Arts and Th eatre Institute has recorded in its databases between 600 and 700 premieres from all theatre genres in both offi cial and independent Czech professional and semi-professional theatres each year. In the year 2010, over 80 contemporary dramatic texts which had been written in the previous decade were staged. About one half of them were plays by Czech playwrights. Th e most frequently staged texts of plays by contemporary foreign authors were from the German, French, English and Slovak languages. Th ese brief statistics show that contemporary drama forms an essential part of Czech drama theatre as well as Czech contemporary theatre culture in general. Th e e-book GAME’S NOT OVER – New Czech Plays (not only) for Your Tablet / E-Reader includes a wide variety of topics which refl ects not only the diversity of their authors but also the discourses in the societies the texts were produced for. Václav Havel in Leaving and Milan Uhde in Th e Miracle at the Black House in particular deal with topics which connect autobiographic elements and experience from the political sphere. Roman Sikora’s play Th e Confession of a Masochist deals with a sharp criticism of consumer society and current political situation; topics of social criticism appear in Radmila Adamová’s play Th e Elle Girls about the world of modelling or in Petr Zelenka’s text Coming Clean which refl ects the disruption of values of media-manipulated reality. Intergeneration issues and family life are explored in the plays Dolls and Dollies and A Time of Cherry Smoke by Arnošt Goldfl am and Kateřina Rudčenková. Magdaléna Frydrych Gregorová’s Dorotka, David Drábek’s Th e Coast of Bohemia and Petr Kolečko’s Gods Don’t Play Ice Hockey off er portrayals of picturesque details of Czech village, urban or pub realities. Slovak authors join this company with their own original topics. Viliam Klimáček paraphrases Chekhov’s Th e Seagull in his play I am the Kraftwerk that takes place in contemporary theatre environment, and Vladislava Fekete was inspired in her writing of 8 Brief Connections by her childhood spent in the Slovak minority in Vojvodina, Serbia. Th e publication GAME’S NOT OVER – New Czech Plays (not only) for your Tablet / E-Reader is available as a CD-ROM and as an electronic book which can be downloaded for free on the informational website about Czech Th eatre www.theatre.cz operated by the Arts and Th eatre Institute (ATI). Th e mission of the ATI is to provide the Czech and international public with a comprehensive range of services in the fi eld of theatre and individual services connected to other branches of the arts (music, literature, dance and visual arts). Th e ATI is also one of the most important publishing houses in the Czech Republic, publishing books in the fi eld of theatre, arts and research. Th is e-book was published in cooperation with the agencies Aura-Pont and DILIA, which are the two biggest Czech agencies arranging licences for using artworks (not only) in the fi eld of theatre. We believe that the book will be as successful as previous projects realized in cooperation between ATI and the Aura- Pont and DILIA agencies, such as the two issues of the catalogue of contemporary Czech drama, Let’s Play Czechs. You are welcome to make now your own game with contemporary Czech (and Slovak) plays. We believe that it will be a source of information about Czech (and Slovak) reality, as well as a dialogue about global problems in our common contemporary world. Martina Černá 9 Radmila Adamová (1975) Radmila Adamová graduated from the College for Vocational Studies in Information and Library Sciences and currently she is studying Th eory and History of Th eatre at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. Between 1998 and 2003 she worked as an author, director and set designer for the company M+M, where she was staging her own experimental texts, such as One Day of Josephine, Gloria and the monodrama Mr. Bu. In her work she refl ects on the rather peculiar position of a woman in the context of contemporary media culture. Her plays were produced by National Moravian- Silesian Th eatre in Ostrava, Slovácké divadlo in Uherské Hradiště and Th eatre LETÍ. For her play Th e Elle Girls (Holky Elky, 2005) which had two productions as well as a staged reading at the Immigrants Th eatre in New York, she received the Evald Schorm Award for 2005. LIST OF PLAYS: • Holky Elky, 2005; première 28. 5. 2006, Th eatre Na zábradlí, Prague • Little Sister, 2005; première 27. 10. 2008, Slovácké divadlo, Uherské Hradiště • (Come On) Let’s Play (Everybody), 2006 • České kuchty super buchty, 2010; première of the radio version in Český rozhlas Brno, 2010 TRANSLATED PLAYS: • Holky Elky: English – Th e Elle Girls, German – Elle Girls, 10 Radmila Adamová THE ELLE GIRLS Translated by Michaela Pňačeková Th is play is fully protected under the copyright law of Czech Republic and is subject to royalty. It cannot be nor used nor changed without an appropriate written permission given by the DILIA Agency. Th e providing of this play to a third party for uses other than production due is also subjected to DILIA permission. A violation of this restriction and using this play without the permission will be interpreted as an infringement of copyright law and will underlie to the civil and criminal liability. All inquiries for rights should be addressed to the DILIA Agency Krátkého 1, Praha 9, 190 03, Czech Republic, www.dilia.cz 11 Characters: Model E1 Model E2 Model E3 Photographer Mother Nurse Agent (All characters are female.) Part 1: Morning Part 2: Evening 12 PART 1: MORNING (On stage – white wall, 2 chairs, metal bucket, door on the right. Characters in scene: Model E1, Model E2, Model E3 , Photographer. E1 enters, puts her rain hat away, looks around, sits down on one chair, puts her purse on another chair. Pause. She puts on her perfume. Pause. E2 enters, carrying an umbrella. E1 looks at E2. E2 does not see E1.) E2: Damn weather, I can’t do this anymore …the fucking umbrella. (She tosses the umbrella aside, because she wants to powder herself, she notices E1. E1 smiles at E2. E2 turns around. E1 is off ended. E2 powders herself, turns towards a vacant chair.