Drama Anthologies
Balkan Plots

Drama Anthologies
Balkan Plots

BALKAN PLOTS:
New Plays From Central And Eastern Europe
Introduced by Gina Landor

THE BODY OF A WOMAN
MATEI VISNIEC
translated by Alison Sinclair
Two women meet in the aftermath of the Bosnian War.
Both are struggling to find release from their inner
battlefields.
'Incontestably one of the best, the most powerful plays of the Avignon Festival.' La Gazette Provencale.
CORDON
NEBOJSA ROMCEVIC
translated by Sladjana Vujovic
A group of Special Police in Belgrade incite a riot at a peaceful protest, maliciously beating a student. A harsh indictment of the brutality and corruption of the Milosevic regime. Banned throughout Yugoslavia.
The film adaptation won the 2003 Montreal Film Festival.
WHEN I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE…
ANDREEA VALEAN
translation by Cheryl Robson & Claudiu Trandafir
A female student visits a youth Detention Centre for a research project. Her interviewing of three young
offenders has disastrous consequences for all involved.
SOAP OPERA
GYORGY SPIRO
translated by Andrew Bock
A salesman wants to sign a woman up for a Jewish reparations scheme. The play raises questions about Western methods of compensation for war crimes.

'... by exposing
(our everyday myths),
however disastrous,
we experience catharsis.'
Life and Literature

£9.95
ISBN 0-9536757-3-4
200 pages