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Current AffairsPrague Playwriting Contest offers participants opportunity to see their play produced
Sunday night was the opening night for the top three submissions to this
year’s Prague Playwriting Contest at the city’s Divadlo Ponec. The
winner of the contest, who will take home a cash prize, will be announced
at the closing night next Tuesday. One of the playwrights in the race for
the award is Josh Kaston. His submission “The Great Indoors” is set in
the rural Southern United States, where a Czech-British couple gets
stranded. Sarah Borufka talked to Josh Kaston about the process of seeing
his play produced and why he decided to participate in the contest.
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Current AffairsPrague Playhouse returns to action
On January 29, the Prague Playhouse – a Prague-based theatre company that
specializes in English-language productions is set to debut a brief run of
the David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross. Dominik Jun caught up with the
Playhouse’s artistic director Brian Caspe to find out more and began by
asking him to tell us a little more about the Prague Playhouse:
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Talking PointThe expat entrepreneurs
This is the story of three English-speaking expats, who arrived in Prague
during the post-Velvet Revolution “golden-age” and who ended up
becoming entrepreneurs, serving the very communities of which they had
become a part. Todd Benson, Bryn Perkins and Martin Howlings are the
respective heads of Prague.tv, Praguemonitor.com and Expats.cz, three
websites that both serve English-speaking Czechs in Prague as well as give
English-speakers across the world a window into this small country at the
heart of Europe. Today, the expat community in Prague has morphed from the
amorphous collection of idealists that first came to the country, often
quite literally to “do nothing” - into a bustling mix of media-types,
teachers, students, businessmen and women and everything in between,
something that is reflected in the evolution of these three websites.
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One on OneErik Best – Founder of The Fleet Sheet and Final Word
My guest in One on One this week is respected Prague-based journalist Erik
Best. Erik came to Prague from the US in the early 90s after completing
degrees in foreign relations, the Russian language and business. Shortly
after his arrival, he founded the Fleet Sheet – a serious daily bulletin
published by him and his staff highlighting important business and
political stories for subscribers. Later, he added Final Word - a
widely-read, often pointedly witty but also critical opinion piece. Both
are discussed in our interview. But first, we began by talking a little
about Erik Best’s initial decision to settle in Prague.
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Current AffairsWinning plays of the Prague Post Playwriting Contest premiere on Saturday
If you want to see original English drama performed on a Czech stage, come
to Prague’s Divadlo Minor this weekend. Saturday will see the premiere of
this year’s three best plays selected by the jury of The Prague Post
Playwriting Contest. The winners of the competition, organized by the
English-language weekly, get the chance to see their plays produced by
theatre professionals. I went to have a look at the last minute
preparations at Divadlo Minor.
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One on OneStewart Kenneth Moore – a Scottish artist revelling in the isolation of Prague
Our guest for One on One this week is Scottish artist Stewart Kenneth Moore
who has been living in the Czech Republic since 1994. In that time, he has
built up a reputation as one of the city’s most capable artists and
draughtsmen, who is particularly well respected for the portraits he has
done of many members of the city’s business community. Besides painting,
Stewart also has a keen interest in graphic design and his illustrations
have been used by a number of publications, including Esquire and Elle
Magazine.
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One on OneWill Tizard - Variety's man in Prague
Our guest for One on One this week is Will Tizard an American journalist
who has been based in Prague since 1994. Besides writing regularly for the
Czech Republic's English-language newspaper The Prague Post, Will Tizard
is also an editor for the prestigious Time Out city guide as
well as the Czech and Slovak correspondent for the leading movie-industry
publication
Variety Magazine. More
Current AffairsPrague hosts new festival of English-language plays
The English-speaking community in Prague has few chances to see drama
performed in English. But this is just about to change, as The Prague Post
- the country's leading English-language newspaper - has decided to
encourage English-language theatre in the city, and founded its own
festival of short plays. More
Current AffairsThe Prague Post Playwriting Contest - fostering English-language drama in Prague
With a large English-speaking community, it's perhaps surprising that
Prague does not have an English-language theatre scene like those that can
be found in other major European capitals like Paris and Berlin. Now a new
playwriting competition sponsored by The Prague Post could help rectify
this situation. Offering a first prize of 20,000 CZK and productions for
the three best scripts, it is hoped that this drama contest could boost
interest in English-language theatre in Prague. More
Current AffairsChallenges in the Czech press, 16 years on.
Last Tuesday the American Information Center presented a panel discussion
about changes in the Czech Republic in the 16 years since the Velvet
Revolution. Emphasis was placed on press freedom, the effect that the last
16 years have had on the quality of publications available in Prague today,
and how those publications face new challenges in their struggle to
survive. After the discussion, Alena Wratislavova talked to the organizer
Jan Krc, who summarized some of the issues discussed.
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