Vera Borkovec

The Voices of Birds and Other Plays by Josef Topol Vera Borkovec

This is a book of five plays by Josef Topol translated into English, only two of which have been produced in the USA. Josef Topol and Vaclav Havel are considered the best Czech living playwrights. The five plays chosen for this volume are representative of Topol's "chamber plays", dealing with such universal themes as youth, love and parting, life and death - in language that is very contemporary and often incredibly poetic. The title of the book The Voices of Birds was chosen because it is the last play Josef Topol has written and indicates that the playwright's newer works are included.