The Ein Stück: Tschechien Festival presents:
Staged reading of Natálie Bočková’s play, with book presentation and talk
Wednesday, 18 Nov 2026 at 7:00 pm | Theater unterm Dach Berlin
At the theatre’s temporary venue in the Interkulturelles Haus in Berlin-Pankow, Schönfließer Straße 7, 10439 Berlin
The Ein Stück: Tschechien Festival, produced by Drama Panorama e. V. since 2014 in Berlin, is a platform for contemporary Czech theatre.
This october, the anthology Am Wannenrand. Tschechische Gegenwartsdramatik. Berlin: Neofelis, 2026, ed. Barbora Schnelle, introduced nine plays from the Ein Stück: Tschechien Festival during the past few years. This book will now be presented in Berlin at a festive release event with a staged reading of the eponymous play Am Wannenrand by young Czech playwright Natálie Bočková.
Programme
Natálie Bočková: Am Wannenrand
translated from Czech by Maira Neubert
The play is a sarcastic study of the failed relationship between Sofie (22) and Thomas (23). It recounts the story of an emerging director and a food deliverer, dramatically constructed as the clash of two life plans unveiling the social rift, classism, and the artist’s mannerism. In laconic dialogues with subtle undertones, the playwright builds a complex model of a toxic relationship on the most limited space. When she is finally accepted for the training programme as stage director, Thomas suddenly does not fit in with Sofie’s world anymore. In 2022, the play received the Evald Schorm Award.
Director: Eberhard Köhler
Design: Danila Korogodsky
Dramaturgy: Barbora Schnelle, Henning Bochert
Cast: Thea Rasche und Henning Bochert
Followed by an aftertalk with the playwright and a book presentation of the newly published anthology of contemporary Czech drama Am Wannenrand (Berlin: Neofelis, 2026), ed. Barbora Schnelle, in the Drama Panorama series.
Natálie Bočková (*2001) studied stage directing and dramaturgy at the Janáček Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Brno and then acquired her master in Bohemian studies at the Masaryk University. She is currently the director of the TÁNÍ ensemble focussing on site-specific projects. In 2023, her play O vedlejších postavách won her second place in a competition organised by the Václav Havel Library Foundation. In 2022, her texts Úsměvy šťastných lidí and Na okraji vany (engl. On the Edge of the Tub) won third place in the competition for the Evald Schorm Award, where, in 2023, her play Tolik něhy won first price. And in 2024, her play Hledat Robinsona (engl. Looking for Robinson, premiered 2025) won third price.
Produced by: Drama Panorama: Forum für Übersetzung und Theater e. V.
Artistic directors and production managers: Barbora Schnelle und Henning Bochert
Funded by the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senat Chancellery. In collaboration with Theater unterm Dach and the Czech Centre Berlin.
Find more informationen on the book here: https://neofelis-verlag.de/verlagsprogramm/literatur-theatertexte/theatertexte/1134/am-wannenrand
