Synopsis: Czech Republick

Group: Divadelní soubor Jana Honsy Karolinka

Title: NEVĚSTA / The Bride

Playwright: Martin Františák

Year: 2009

Genre: Drama

Direction: Martin Františák

Composer: David Smečka

 

The play is based on Mrs. Anna Javorková’s diaries that the author found in Wallachia. The play is about two women known as ”the brides”.

 

In the border regions of Germany in the aftermath of the war, immigrants from other parts of the country try to make a new life for themselves. The two women in the story have no choice but to offer themselves to the men of the village in order to survive.

 

The lives of the people then, confront the lives of people today. Anna Javorková is dying and she is taken to the hospital. Her old suitors and their descendants want to destroy her old house to rid them of their guilt. Then Anna's daughter returns to the village to find her roots, but she is unaware that she is the child of one of the men and of what her presence might mean. The village splits into two camps: one strives to maintain the secrets of the past, secrets that threaten the Mayor's family, while the other wants to help Olga.