Petr Zelenka attended a rehearsed reading of his latest play Coming Clean [Očištění] at the newly refurbished Czech National Hall in New York on 27 February.
The occasion was also a “test-drive” of the new English translation by Zelenka’s usual translator Štěpán Šimek (Tales of Ordinary Madness [Příběhy obyčejného šílenství] , Teremin). The reading was directed by Marcy Arlin who runs the Immigrants´ Theater Project presenting Czech drama to New York audiences on a regular basis and who has a lion’s share in the preparation of the forthcoming American anthology of Czech plays. The anthology is published by the prestigious Martin E. Segal Theater Center of the City Univeristy of New York Graduate Center. Pictures from the rehearsed reading by Yusuf Sayman are available at: http://ysayman.com/bnh-feb27/