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ArtsIrish drama booming in Czech Republic
Many Irish plays have appeared in Czech theatres in the last decade or so,
in what has been something of a boom for Irish drama in the Czech
Republic. The latest is A Skull in Connemara by Martin McDonagh, which
recently received its Czech language premiere at Prague's Svandovo
Divadlo. More
Czech BooksTom Stoppard's Rock 'N' Roll: a translator's perspective
The Czech premiere of Tom Stoppard's recent play Rock 'N' Roll was one of
the
big literary and social events of the year, attended not just by the
playwright himself, but also by many prominent former Czech dissidents.
The level of interest was not just because Tom
Stoppard is of Czech origin, born in Zlin in 1937, but also because of the
very Czech subject matter of the play. 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 AffairsAltay mountain to be named after fictitious Czech character
Prague's Jara Cimrman Theatre, named after a popular fictitious character,
is about to become involved in an unusual undertaking. It has put together
a group of actors and professional climbers who will visit Russia's Altay
Mountains this summer. When they get there they plan to christen a
hitherto name-less peak - after Jara Cimrman.
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Current AffairsTom Stoppard's Rock'n'Roll "comes home" with Czech premiere
The red carpet was out on Thursday evening for the Czech premiere of the
latest play by the renowned British playwright Tom Stoppard. He was born
in Czechoslovakia, and the play, Rock'n'Roll, is partly set in Prague; it
begins with the Soviet crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 and ends with
a Rolling Stones concert at the city's Strahov stadium in 1990.
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Current AffairsAnnual festival gives regional theatres chance to shine in capital
This Sunday the cream of the country's regional theatres will be enjoying
the limelight at a gala evening and awards ceremony at Prague's Karlin
Musical Theatre. It will be the high point of the annual Ceske Divadlo
(Czech Theatre) festival, which gives regional theatres the chance to come
to Prague and show they can hold their own with the best the capital has to
offer. Ahead of the gala evening I spoke to the festival's organiser, Marek
Vesely.
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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 AffairsMimraj 2006 - celebrating fifty years of mime in the Czech Republic
Exactly fifty years ago, on August 1 1956, the country's first ever
official mime performance was staged for the public. It was a graduation
performance by students of the Prague State Conservatory. With "A
Night of Three Mimes" at the Clementinum, the group of dancers never
dreamed their show would start off a tradition of mime in the country.
Now, to celebrate this anniversary, a six-month festival has just been
launched. Dita Asiedu reports:
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Current AffairsTom Stoppard's "Rock 'n' Roll"
Tom Stoppard, one of the greatest living playwrights, has written a new
play called Rock 'n' Roll and it includes some serious Czech content. Set
in two locations—Prague and Cambridge—the scenes shift from those taking
place in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and 1989, to those in England which
revolve around the family of an academic Marxist, Max Morrow. The
connecting point is a Czech student studying at Cambridge, Jan, who falls
in love with Max's daughter. Described as a tragicomic family saga
intertwined with a political drama set in Normalization-era
Czechoslovakia, Rock 'n' Roll also features lots of rock music, including
songs by the Czech band, The Plastic People of the Universe.
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Current AffairsPrague Fringe Festival: seven day theatre marathon
7 nights....35 companies....38 shows.... 180 performances ... 6 venues. The
Prague Fringe Festival - the Czech Republic's own version of the famous
Edinburgh festival - is underway in Prague this week. A real treat for
theatre buffs it offers the cream of new talent from around the world -
from rainbow bubble theatre for kids to the raw, powerful testimony of a
man fighting cancer. From slapstick to sexy, from a one woman jazz/cabaret
show to a one-man Hamlet - in its fifth year the Prague Fringe Festival has
more to offer than ever before. If you are starved for English language
theatre this is a virtual feast.
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