(*4. 10. 1964)
In the 1980s a member of the Children’s Studio of the Theatre on a String and of the amateur group Unroadworthy Caterpillar. From 1984 an actress with the HaDivadlo Theatre in Brno. Until 1989 worked on the scripts for all devised productions of the HaDivadlo Theatre. Returning from maternity leave she found there were few opportunities for actresses and began to devote herself more intensively to writing plays. Arnošt Goldflam, who determined the whole poetics of the HaDivadlo Theatre, had an influence on her early work. After his departure from the theatre she developed her own independent, feminist oriented work. She has been shortlisted for the Alfréd Radok Playwriting Competition many times and won several awards: in 1997, 4th place for her play All Saints, in 2000 3rd place for her Minach, in 2003 2nd place for Encroachment and in 2003 3rd place for 3sisters2002.cz. Since September 2004 she works as a lector for the dramaturgy department at the National Theatre in Prague.
In 2006 she returned to her maiden name Klestilová; the same year she had her biggest theatre success so far when her play My Country (Má vlast) – a satirical take on the absurdity of current Czech politics produced by the Rokoko Theatre – won the first place in the theatre survey of the critics at the World and the Theatre magazine as a result, she won the Alfréd Radok Award 2006 for the best new Czech play. Also in 2006 she wrote a script for the special summer project The Shed at the Prague National Theatre. The play, called Heroes, became a basis for the production by the directing team nicknamed Skutr.
List of plays:
Všichni svatí, 1997
Zisk slasti, 1999, premiere 7. 10. 2000 Festival Les divokých sviní, Činoherní studio, Ústí nad Labem (staged reading)
trilogie minach, 2000, premiere 11. 1. 2002 HaDivadlo, Brno
Stísněná 22, 2001, premiere 13. 3. 2003 Národní divadlo, Prague
3sestry2005.cz, 2002, premiere 17. 5. 2005 Divadlo Rokoko, Prague
Taking off, 2003, premiere 8. 6. 2003 Dejvické divadlo, Prague (staged reading)
HRA(J)!, 2003, premiere 10. 3. 2004 HaDivadlo, Brno
Benefice, 2005, premiere April 2005 Činoherní studio, Ústí nad Labem
Barbíny (together with Valeria Schulczová), 2005, premiere May 2005 Divadlo Na zábradlí, Prague
Usměj se, mami, 2007, premiere March 3, 2007 in the Theatre U Valšů, Prague
Translated plays:
trilogie minach English - Minach, A Trilogy about, and "for", Women (TR: Alex Zucker)
Stísněni: English - Encroachment (TR: David Nykl)
3sestry2002.cz: English - 3sisters2002.cz (TR: Štěpán Šimek, Hungarian - Eva Molnár)