Third annual playwriting festival!
Hey! Guess what time it is?!
New Visions’ play writing festival is back!
This year’s theme is The Price of Passion.
Everyone is filled with passion, something that keeps them going. But at what point does following one’s passion become unbearable… When does the lively fire become more than what it’s worth?
Here’s this year’s festival program!
All the Commotion:
22nd November - Divadlo D21, Záhřebskáv468, 120 00 Praha 2 - 19h
Synopsis:
In an unspecified country, 40 years after the fall of a dictatorial regime. Democracy, albeit fragile, is in place, but its social psyche is still encumbered by the memories of the terrorism that ravaged the land after the civil war that put an end to the regime. Now that the weapons have been abandoned, the cultural war has begun; those who still hold the old regime in high regard are trying to reimplement their ways and slowly creep back into power. With this goal in mind, the revisionists have decided to install themselves into the academic scene.
Meanwhile, Oliver, has been trying to start a PhD in cinema for years. After many failed attempts at admissions and the looming feeling of his increasing age, he turns to a revisionist leaning university with a project about the late regime cinema.
Who’s who:
Playwright: Guglielmo Menichetti
Director: Jazmín
Playing Oliver Stalwart: Milan Šebo
Playing Gloria Ray: Teresa Polk
Playing Julia Hallister: Rozie Angel
Playing Phil Sutherland: Guglielmo Menichetti
Meet the talent!
Rozie Angel
Rozie is a multilingual performer, theatre director and creative writer. Upon graduating with a B.A. in English, French and Theatre Studies from Prague's Charles University in 2021, she completed an Arts Management internship at the Czech Centre London, as well as a theatre-making intensive at Denmark's Odin Teatret. Since then, she's directed and appeared in numerous independent, multidisciplinary projects in Prague and internationally, spanning classical theatre, experimental film, voice-over acting, and modern dance. She spent the 2022/23 season performing with Scotland-based troupe EUSS (most notably as Decius Brutus in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar") and for last year's Edinburg Fringe festival, she co-created and starred in an original show reimagining Euripides' "Tragedy of Hekabé" as a movement-based Brechtian drama. Over the years, she's appeared in main and supporting roles in a number of short films (independent, FAMU, NYU, PFS, FAMO Písek) and is a long-term collaborator of the Prague-based Dark Bark Drama theatre company. For several years, she worked as a translator and production assistant at Dramox, the largest streaming platform with theatre and dance content in Czechia. Her reviews and opinion pieces are regularly featured in the highly-regarded performing arts magazine Dance Context.
Guglielmo Menichetti
Guglielmo is a 38 yo Italian expat in Prague. After a year of Meisner technique training he got his first gigs as an actor in student movies (PFS). Since August '23 he has been cast in several theatre productions spanning from more dramatic roles (Master of Trapdoors) to comedic ones (Servant of Two Masters) and original plays (Dating an influencer, Baron Munchausen). Lately, he has also started to write plays.
Milan Šebo
Director Komárek, EinTopf, director: Marek Dobeš, Theatre Na Prádle, in production (2024)
John Brown, Ray Coonney: 1+1=3, director: Jakub Kudrna, DS Amartum, Praha, in production (2024) A Waiter, Never say never, director: Petr Míka, Theatre Bez hranic, Prague (2024) A holocaust survivor, Sunday´s stage readings, MA theatre, Prague (2023) Actor, Panic cabaret, Sasha Minajev, Theatre Kamen, Prague (2023)
Peter, Arnold Wesker: The Kitchen, Marianna Arzumanova theater, Prague (2020) Charlie, Lenka Svobodova: Interview at 2.30 am, Prague (2018)
Waiter, Marianna Arzumanova: In the cafe, Marianna Arzumanova theater (2018) Anselm, Moliere: The Miser, Koma theatre, Prague (2016)
Black monk, A.P. Cekhov: Black monk, White theatre, Bratislava (2016) F. Kafka, F. Kafka: Letter to Milena, White theatre, Bratislava (2013)
Nills Krogstad, Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s house, White theatre, Bratislava (2012)
Jazmin Cepeda
A director and former student at DAMU in Prague. With the support of her friend’s, she founded New Visions Theatre and hopes to help bring theatre to the community.
Teresa Polk
Guglielmo is a 38 yo Italian expat in Prague. After a year of Meisner technique training he got his first gigs as an actor in student movies (PFS). Since August '23 he has been cast in several theatre productions spanning from more dramatic roles (Master of Trapdoors) to comedic ones (Servant of Two Masters) and original plays (Dating an influencer, Baron Munchausen). Lately, he has also started to write plays.