Czech plays
Subtitle: modern Czech drama
By: selected and introduced by Barbara Day.
Contributors: Day, Barbara, 1944-
Series: The International collection; International collection (London, England)
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Czech drama -- 20th century -- Translations into English
Description: "With the emergence of a dissident playwright as the President of Czechoslovakia in 1989, the Czech tradition by which theatre mirrors political life came full circle. Ranging back over the three decades preceding the Velvet Revolution, these four plays show modern Czech writers skilfully commenting on current realities through historical and domestic themes." "Published here for the first time in English, Vaclav Havel's Tomorrow!, written anonymously in 1988, is a historical comedy about the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic. Games by novelist Ivan Klima shows a house party going badly wrong as old guilts break the surface. In Joseph Topol's Cat on the Rails two lovers wait for a train that never comes. And Dog and Wolf by the leading woman playwright Daniela Fischerova takes Francois Villon as exemplar of the clash between artist and society."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Translated from Czech.
Table of contents: title: Tomorrow! / Václav Havel; title: Games / Ivan Klíma; title: Cat on the rails / Josef Topol; title: Dog and wolf / Daniela Fischerová.