Arnošt Goldflam is bringing out yet another play – the bitter sweet melancholy comedy Blbá Veruna [Silly Veruna] will open at the Brno theatre A Goose on a string (Husa na provázku) on May 27, 2010. The play features the eponymous hero Veruna who grew up during the communist times and revives in flashback both funny and tough memories of the era. It is a comedy about the remarkable time when the Labour Day was celebrated as an official holiday, when people went crazy because of the Socialist planning system, when they sung Communist propaganda songs of the era and tried to bring up their children and then went on to dance sprightly through all the way to the present days. The lead will be played by Anežka Kubátová. Czech audience already had the opportunity to hear the text when the author read it as part of the night of rehearsed readings of Czech and Slovak plays at Nová scéna.
Goldflam’s plays still keep their successful runs: the series of one act plays At Hitler’s Kitchen [U Hitlerů v kuchyni] runs in repertory at four Czech theatres, Dolls and Dollies [Ženy a panenky] at three theatres in the country, The Green Room [Dámská šatna] is performed at two stages. Dolls and Dollies was also recently produced in London.
At the Polárka Theatre in Brno, there is a new production of Standa and the House of Horrors [Standa a dům hrůzy] dramatized by Hana Mikolášková; the author will be presenting his own dramatization of the same text at the Alfa Theatre in Pilsen next autumn. At Ypsilon Theatre in Prague, Goldflam directed his idiosyncratic version of the Czech classical novel, The Grandmother, at Řeznická Theatre Director’s Box runs in repertory… All of this means that Arnošt Goldflam is at the moment the most performed playwright in the Czech Republic.