First post-89 anthology of Czech plays in English brought out in New York

The first English-language anthology of Czech plays written after the Velvet Revolution in 1989 has been brought out in New York. The collection, titled ‘Czech Plays: Seven New Works’, was issued by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center with the help of the New York Czech Centre. It presents the work of, among other playwrights, David Drábek, Lenka Lagronová and Jiří Pokorný. According to the head of the Prague Theatre Institute, Pavla Petrová, who has also played an active role in the publishing of the book, the collection represents what has been happening in Czech theatres in the past 20 years. Twenty-five thousand copies of the book have been printed, it can be found on the internet as well as in bookshops.