Marek Šimon

Cimrmani zblízka (2024)

Bethlehem Light (2022)

A well-known writer now aged 75 is aware of his increasing age and the risk that his literary style will grow worn. His everyday existence is enlivened by characters from his stories, who tend to enter reality in unexpected ways, at various stages of compl ...

Hymna aneb Urfidlovačka (2009)

Czech Heaven (2008)

40 let Divadla Járy Cimrmana aneb Ze hry do hry (2007)

Jára Cimrman in the whirlwind of the past forty years, as discovered, recorded, and brought to life by the theater. ...

The Conquest of the North Pole (2007)

Cimrman's play about Czech expedition to north pole. ...

Africa (2002)

The fourteenth Cimrman play takes us to the heart of a continent almost untouched by civilization. Czech travelers encounter a strange tribe of cannibals and almost end up on their menu. The members of this tribe are unusual in two ways: their appearance a ...

The Stand In (1997)

Poverty was one of the many unfortunate aspects of Cimrman's life. His traveling theater company, Lipany, suffered from high actor turnover. If an actor's departure was agreed upon well in advance, the situation could be managed. However, if it happened wi ...

Dvě z policejní brašny (1997)

Two short stories in which novice detective Sergeant Zahrádka is tasked with carrying out trivial orders, which he fails to do due to his innate clumsiness. ...

Lijavec (1997)

When late in life was presenting Cimrman his artistic activity, came arresting knowledge: none of the works he had signed, not recognition. And so he decided to retreat to the anonymity of the author and become folklore. Clairvoyantly recognized that the m ...

A znovu Žebrácká opera (1996)

Two different productions of Václav Havel's Beggar's Opera reveal the political dynamics of Czechoslovakia before and after the velvet revolution. ...

Cimrmani zblízka (2024)