A Christmas Triffle (Piškot, 1966)

Přidal: Premek |

Září 25, 2015

Ludvík Aškenazy. Rozhlasová hra („black comedy“) podle povídky Zmizel jako cukrář. Překlad Vera Blackwell. Hudba Štěpán Lucký, Dorothy Tutin a Patrick Troughton. Režie Josef Červinka.

Osoby a obsazení: Roškot (Patrick Troughton), Albert (Hector Ross), Klíma (Haydn Jones), manželka velitele tábora (Dorothy Tutin), tenor (Edward Darling), soprán (Ellen Dales).

Natočeno 1966. Premiéra 2. 1. 1967 (Network Three, 19:30 h.). Repríza 21. 1. 1967 (Network Three, 19:35 h.); 25. 9. 1970 (BBC Radio 4, 15:00 h.); 14. 6. 1974 (BBC Radio 4, 15:05 h.)

Lit.: Lefeaux, Charles: A Christmas Triffle. In Radio Times 1/1967 (článek). – Cit.: A Black Comedy by Ludvik Askenazy. ‚ I dreamt I was frying the trout and suddenly it began to sing-straight out of the pan-soprano ‚.The action takes place in Czechoslovakia during the last war.

A Czech play in exchange

Last March I went to Prague as part of an exchange of producers between the BBC and Czechoslovak Radio to produce Giles Cooper’s play, The Object, in Czech-a play which in fact won their Third International Radio Play Festival. Now, as the second half of the exchange, Josef Cervinka has come here to produce one of their plays for us in English-a play with an ambiguous title, A Christmas Trifle, and, like Cooper’s, a black comedy. It is set, surprisingly, in a concentration camp and has within it performances of an opera sung by a trout to music composed by Stépán Lucky. The play, written by Ludvfk ASkenazy, one of their leading radio playwrights, was awarded the prize in the Czech Radio Drama competition of 1964, and its main theme is that loss of human dignity in a critical situation can lead first to disintegration of personality and eventually to physical destruction.