(*1962)
Dramaturge, director and actress. She graduated in Drama and Film Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Charles University in Prague and worked at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Theatre Institute and taught at the College for Performing Arts in Bratislava. Since 2001 she works full-time as a theatre artist – acting, directing, writing, translating and dramaturgeing. In the Dráma 2004 competition she was awarded a prize for the play Nobodies and Nymphomaniacs written in collaboration with I. Hrubaničová and V. Zboroň. In the same competition two years later she won 2nd prize with her play The Female Rabbi.
Not yet translated plays:
SCHAULUST
3 men, 2 women
The action of this short text is set during a party after an opening night at a theatre. Five characters are meeting – an Actor, an Actress, an Audience Member, a Director and a Reviewer. These characters are not defined in detail; their function in the play is mort that of abstract types. The play is a dream scene in which the notions of what a after-premiere party looks like become reality and what kind of frustrations move people connected to the theatre world. The individual characters in their monologues present their personal, intimate and professional doubts, failures, ambitions, lack of self-fulfilment, the authoritarian approach by the director, tangled emotions and feelings and desire for love. Associations of ideas are the building blocks of the play, the text is a filmic montage of intervowen images.
Shortlisted text for the anonymous Alfréd Radok Playwriting Competition 2005. The version of this play for radio was broadcast on January 23, 2007, on the Czech Radio 3 – Vltava.