New Czech Drama Festival 2025 – staged readings of contemporary plays

Sunday, 29 June 2025, 8 pm, Theater unterm Dach

Photo from one of our ealier staged readings. Tomáš Ráliš: Sorex. English Theatre Berlin I International Performing Arts Center, 27.05.2023 as part of the „New Translations of International Plays” Festival, f.l.t.r.: Noureddine Friedrich Chamari, Naomi Abukha, Hannah Ley and Felix Römer | Photo: Zuzana Lazarová

Tomáš Ráliš: Ausrotten (working title, orig. Vyhubyt, translated from Czech by Maira Neubert)

(a grotesque reckoning with the gentrified housing market and the housing shortage for the young generation, the play received the Ewald Schorm Award in 2023)

Hana D. Lehečková: Trollmama (orig. Trollí matka, translated from Czech by Barbora Schnelle)

(dystopian play by the young, renowned prose writer dealing with the effect of manipulative content on social media on the individual user)

David Košťák: Über der ausgegossenen Milchstraße (working title, orig. Nad rozlitou mléčnou dráhou, translated from Czech by Martina Lisa)

(a poetic play about the relationship between an immature father and an aging daughter, time having escaped them like stardust running through their fingers)

Staged readings (of abridged versions) followed by a panel discussion with the playwrights and translators

Readings directed by: Eberhard Köhler

Part of the Ein Stück: Tschechien Festival

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