Prague Playhouse

Divadlo Na Zabradli To Produce Play In English

May 28th, 2010 at 11:13am brian

David Peimer, who teaches at NYU and has worked on several Prague Playhouse projects, is directing a play at Divadlo Na zabradli in English. The cast is mostly Czechs with some of the Black Snow company members thrown in for good measure. The play, a translation of a Polish play about Romanians, is called “A Couple of poor Polish speaking Romanians…” and was written by Dorota Maslowska.

Why Divadlo Na zabradli chose to do a translation of a Polish play into English for their first English-language production is something of a mystery to me, but it’s certainly an interesting choice. If it is successful (especially with tourists), I think we can start to see more theaters trying this out, which could be a boon to the English-speaking acting community here. I’m also curious to see how the Czech cast (the majority of the actors are non-native speakers) manages the English. Recent films shot in English (Bathory and Libuse) with Czech or Slovak casts have solidified my impression that acting well in another language is extremely difficult.

I have worked with David as a director and am very confident of his abilities and artistic sensibility, so if anyone can pull this off, he can.

The premier on June 3 is sold out, but there are still some spots left for the reprise on June 15. For tickets, you can call the Zabradli box office: 222 868 868

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