{"id":6134,"date":"2026-06-22T16:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drama-panorama.com\/en\/?p=6134"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:33:11","slug":"retrospection-ein-stuck-tschechien-nachlese-2026-tomas-ralis-ophelia-onlyfans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drama-panorama.com\/en\/2026\/06\/22\/retrospection-ein-stuck-tschechien-nachlese-2026-tomas-ralis-ophelia-onlyfans\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrospection: Ein St\u00fcck: Tschechien: Nachlese 2026 – Tom\u00e1\u0161 R\u00e1li\u0161: Ophelia OnlyFans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sunday, June 14, 2026, starting at 7 p.m. in the Gr\u00fcner Salon<\/a> at the Volksb\u00fchne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Staged reading of the play \u201cOphelia OnlyFans\u201d by Tom\u00e1\u0161 R\u00e1li\u0161, followed by a discussion and party<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cEin St\u00fcck: Tschechien\u201d festival, organized by Drama Panorama e. V., is a platform for contemporary Czech theater in Germany that has been taking place since 2014. This year, the \u201cNachlese 2026\u201d program was presented\u2014Tom\u00e1\u0161 R\u00e1li\u0161, winner of the 2025 Audience Award, was introduced to Berlin audiences with his latest play, \u201cOphelia OnlyFans,\u201d in a German translation by Maira Neubert.
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The play is an exploration of the well-known Shakespearean story from Ophelia\u2019s perspective, set in the present day, where the real and digital worlds merge. Hamlet is merely a minor character here; the focus is on Ophelia\u2019s coming-of-age story. Her mother has died under unclear circumstances, and a security camera video suddenly appears on Ophelia\u2019s cell phone. Her father, Polonius\u2014a corrupt politician\u2014seems to be hiding something and begins a relationship with Ophelia\u2019s aunt, Claudia, immediately after his wife\u2019s death. Silence, incest, deepfakes of her brother Laertes \u2014 who sells Ophelia on the OnlyFans platform \u2014numerous moles burrowing through the earth in search of compromising material, and other dark secrets shape the play, which skillfully and satirically revolves around the themes of Hamlet. As a DJ, Ophelia plays her sets at Denmark\u2019s hottest club, Else I Snore, searching for the right BPM for sadness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The play, which features both poetic scenes and grotesque exchanges, was presented as a staged reading in the Gr\u00fcner Salon at the Volksb\u00fchne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. For director Eberhard K\u00f6hler, this was already his third encounter with a play by Tom\u00e1\u0161 R\u00e1li\u0161 (following Sorex<\/em> in 2023 and Ausgewohnt<\/em> in 2025). He utilized the entire space of the Gr\u00fcner Salon\u2014 from the stage to the central area and all the way to the bar. The four actors \u2014 Thea Rasche, Naomi Abukha, Sascha Vajnstajn, and Henning Bochert \u2014 changed their costumes and roles after the prologue and did not return to their original cast assignments until the very end. This created a frame for the plot, which drifts into the digital realm and ultimately returns to the initial situation, as if in a loop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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On the left, Naomi Abukha as Ophelia; on the right, Thea Rasche as Claudia; photo by Katrin Unarov\u00e1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Front left: Noami Abukha as Ophelia; on the right, director Eberhard K\u00f6hler, who also played the role of H; Photo: Mathilda Schnelle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Danila Korogodsky was responsible for the set design and costumes; he developed colorful patterns for each role and hung nets full of apples throughout the entire space. Only when the moles burrow their way through to the kompromat are the nets cut open, and the apples flood the room. With their bites taken out of them, they serve as Yorick\u2019s skulls or as juggling props. A staged reading by Eberhard K\u00f6hler is always a small-scale production\u2014the audience very quickly forgets that the actors are still holding scripts in their hands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In the panel discussion that followed, festival director Barbora Schnelle spoke with the playwright Tom\u00e1\u0161 R\u00e1li\u0161 and his translator Maira Neubert. R\u00e1li\u0161 explained that his play was a response to a flood of Hamlet<\/em> productions on Czech stages and that he wanted to examine the material from the perspective of a different family. Maira Neubert spoke about the role that verifying the translation plays in the rehearsal process. The audience asked many questions about the original production, which is currently running at the Divadlo Komedie theater in Prague under the direction of Tom\u00e1\u0161 R\u00e1li\u0161 and is attracting a very young audience to the theater.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Barbora Schnelle, Tom\u00e1\u0161 R\u00e1li\u0161, and Maira Neubert; Photo: Katrin Unarov\u00e1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The evening ended with an afterparty where DJ Liarosa played her sets. Liarosa, also known as Rosalie Malinsk\u00e1, is a Czech actress and musician with the band Viah, who plays the role of Ophelia in the Prague production. This gave the Berlin audience a very vivid sense of the kind of beats you can hear at Club Else I Snore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Tom\u00e1\u0161 R\u00e1li\u0161: Ophelia OnlyFans \u2013 staged reading<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Translated from Czech by Maira Neubert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Eberhard K\u00f6hler
Set Design: Danila Korogodsky
Dramaturgy: Barbora Schnelle, Henning Bochert
Cast: Naomi Abukha, Henning Bochert, Thea Rasche, Alexandr Weinstein<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the performance: Q&A with the author and his translator Maira Neubert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afterparty mit DJ Liarosa aus Prag<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The festival Ein St\u00fcck: Tschechien<\/a>, organised by Drama Panorama e. V.<\/strong>, is a platform for contemporary Czech theatre in Germany that has been taking place in Berlin since 2014. It presents current Czech productions as guest performances and staged readings of plays by contemporary Czech playwrights that have been translated into German for the first time for the festival and are therefore being presented for the first time in German in these readings. Many of the plays translated for the festival have been published in book form as part of the Drama Panorama<\/a> series published by Neofelis Verlag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artistic directors and production management: Barbora Schnelle and Henning Bochert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more details about the event, please visit the archive on the Drama Panorama website:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ein St\u00fcck: Tschechien: Nachlese 2026 – „Ophelia OnlyFans“ + Party\/Sommerfest mit DJ Liarosa<\/a><\/blockquote>