SLOVAKIA / 2021
Tereza Trusinová – Right to Die
This text excerpt was proposed by the Slovak National Drama Theatre to the ETC Drama Committee in 2024.
Right to Die examines the right to voluntary death in three independent cases - a young Mongolian prostitute in Japan, a man who drunkenly killed his young child and, even after serving his prison sentence, decided to commit jingoistic suicide by slowly reducing his food intake (sallekhana), and finally, a lonely 83-year-old woman who decides to commit suicide by gas inhalation.
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CZECH REPUBLIC / 2021
Marie Nováková – Landscape with Warehouses
The play was proposed by Narodni divadlo - National Theatre Prague / Czech Republic for the ETC Drama Committee
The border area in the westernmost part of the Czech Republic is a turbulent place where people didn’t get a chance to stay for any longer period and put down roots.
Maciej from Poland thus finds a close soul in Greta, a dead German girl who fell victim to the hostility of the Czechs towards the Germans in the post-war period. Marika, an elderly prostitute who is seeing a Bosnian worker, Danilo, at the barracks, finds among the workers a child born twenty-five years ago of whom she lost track after his placement in a care home. The annual gathering of retired border-guard soldiers is interrupted by a ghost of their former comrade, who mercilessly destroys their long-developed cover legend about brave guardians of the republic. Danilo, broken down and tortured by the heavy work, is freed by a horde of Bashkirian warriors who died in a prison camp during WWI and are buried underneath the logistics warehouses. But Christmas is coming, and the workers must keep working so that gifts are delivered in time.
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