| Josef Topol | |
Coctails The buildings thicken
Opera with oily lips
Oh enviable to the connoisseur
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Josef Topol was born in 1935 in
Poříčí nad Sázavou, a small town not far from Prague. One of the most distinguished
of living Czech dramatists, his first play Midnight Wind was written
for E. F. Burian’s theatre. Encouraged by director Otomar Krejča, he wrote
Their Day and End of Carnival for the National Theatre. Cat
on the Rails was written for Krejča’s Theatre Beyond the Gate. Plays
written while he was officially banned, include: The Voices of Birds
and Goodbye Sokrates. The first was produced at The Vinohrady Theatre
in June 1989, the latter at the Estates Theatre in 1990. His collected
poems were published by Torst in 1997. He lives in Prague.
Narodil se v roce 1935 v Poříčí nad Sázavou. Patří mezi
nejznámější české dramatiky; svou první hru Půlnoční vítr napsal
pro divadlo
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