* 6. 9. 1977
Graduated in dramaturgy from the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno where at present he is working on a post-graduate study in the field of auteur - dramaturgy creation. Employed as night porter in a Brno hotel. In the process of writing a novel The Last Book and translating into Czech previously untranslated plays by Eugene Ionesco. Author of several xerograph series and also the music and texts of the electro pop-art collection Walkers by Air.
His plays have been performed not only in professional theatres (Goose on a String Theatre in Brno, Little Theatre in České Budujovice) but also by amateur companies, some of which have performed only Trtílek's plays (Theatre at the Last Minute, Absurd Theatre Autobus). His play The Last Supper won 2nd prize in the Alfréd Radok Award in 2003. My Beautiful World, the play he cooperated on with Jan Krupa was shortlisted for the same prize in 2005.
List of plays (selection):
Bludice, 1998, première 23. 3. 2001 Divadlo Husa na provázku, Brno
Špína, 1999, première říjen 2000 Divadlo Na zábradlí, Prague (staged reading)
Strašlivá pravda vo Babičce naší paní Božky Němcový, 2000, première 20. 6. 2001 Divadlo Na poslední chvíli, Brno
Višňový smrad (soukromá likvidace veřejného Čechova), 2000, première 2001 Festival of Amateur Theatres "Setkání na prknech", Veverská Bitýška (staged reading)
Čingischán, 2002, opened 2002 JAMU - salon of original work, Brno (staged reading)
Zabiju tě sekerou!, 2003, première 25. 5. 2004 Divadlo Čára, Brno
Sedmero krkavců, 2003, première 4. 10. 2003 Malé divadlo, České Budějovice
Poslední večeře, 2004, première 25.11.2005, Jihočeské divadlo, České Budějovice
Átreovci, 2004, première 28. 11. 2004, Studio Marta, JAMU Brno (in co-operation with Marek Mojžíšek)
Můj krásný svět, (in co-operation with Jan Krupa), 2005, staged reading 21.11.2006, Divadlo v Dlouhé, premiere 29.5.2008, Divadlo Husa na provázku Brno
Translated plays:
Višňový smrad: Russian - Visnevyj smrad
Poslední večeře: German - Das letzte Abendmah
Romeo, Julie, smog a hluk: Spanish - Romeo, Julieta, Humo y Ruido, German - Romeo, Julia, Smog und Lärm
Poslední večeře / The Last Supper
8 women
The aged and infirm Vojenová lives in a house beyond the town with her servant Beáta, a lightning conductor for her sarcasm. Beáta is preparing the supper which Vojenová organises regularly for six bereaved women on the anniversary of a fatal event. They and Vojenová are widows following a tragic accident: years ago, collapsing scaffolding killed their husbands. Each of the bizarre little women lives in her own strange world, which is linked with the "big world" only through media and fragments of their guidelines to happiness. The strange and even heroic behaviour of Vojenová and the sudden death of a cat of one guests awakens suspicions in the women that the supper was poisoned. Imprisoned in the house they urge one another to last grotesque confessions ...
Můj krásný svět / My beautiful world
3 women, 1 men
This text, shortlisted for the Alfréd Radok Playwriting Award 2005, is a free follow-up to Trtílek's Last Dinner and looks at today's crazy world from the same perspective of the oldest generation. Its protagonists are three old age lady pensioners. Originally there should have been more ladies coming to visit Vilma, but most of them were prevented by poor health. Health is also the most frequent topic of conversation between Vilma, Bělka and Zdeňka. Their stories about doctors are as tragicomic as their colourful shopping stories. Vilma is a champion: she's treating her girlfriends with not too appetising home-made apricot juice and revolting sticks while boasting about various bargains ordered cash on delivery from catalogues. Her self-aggrandisement reaches such absurd proportions that it provokes unprecedented aggression in her visitors...
The whole "presentation" by Vilma is interrupted in the end by the arrival of an executor. After his work is finished, Vilma, blameless again, can re-start ordering from her catalogues.