| KSENIJA HORVAT |
- Detective story -
TOPIC: the murder of a prominent Zagreb architect
NUMBER OF CHARACTERS: 7 mafe and 5 female
NUMBER OF ACTS: 3
PLACE: a parlour
TIME: July 1935
SUMMARY:
A retired police inspector, Andrija Milhofer, investigates the disappearance
of Olga Košenski's necklace and the murder of her husband, Velimir Košenski. The Košenski murdertakes place at a party held in the newly built house of a family friend, Ladisiav Maldini. In orderto soive the mystery, Milhofer must unveil the secretsthat the two families have kept for fifteen years.
- Poetic drama -
TOPIC: materialisation of a poet's subconscious mind seen through relationship of the old poet and his granddaughter
NUMBER OF CHARACTERS: 7 male and 9 female
NUMBER OF ACTS: 2
PLACE: Diana's forest shrine / Virgil's room
TIME: 1 A. D. back to 485 B. C.
SUMMARY:
An ordinary trip by the famous Roman poet Virgil and his granddaughter Aritia turns into an unusual, hallucinatory voyage by the old poet into his subconsciousness mind, from which various characters of classical mythology suddenly materialise.
The play was first staged at the ITD Theatre in Zagreb in 1991 .
- A Radio Drama -
NUMBER OF CHARACTERS: 5 males
NUMBER OF ACTS: 1
PLACE: Jerusalem
TIME: 1st Century AD
WRITTEN IN: 1993
SUMMARY:
This radio drama is an adaptation of M. Bulgakov's The Master and Marguerita. The meeting between Pontius Pilate and the Stranger will shake Pilate's way of thinking and his view of the world. Although powerless to save him from the mob which chooses Barnabus, Pilate finds "solace" in the new faith and in the revenge which he reveals only tothe Stranger'sdisciple. Bulgakovdescribedthetrial and death of Jesus in a distinctive way, and his vision is transferred to this radio adaptation.
The play had its premiere in 1992 in the Croatian Radio Drama Programme.
BIOGRAPHY:
Ksenija Horvat was born in Zagreb in 1966. She graduated in 1990 from the Faculty of Arts in Zagreb (departments of English Language and Literature, and Comparative Literature). She is head of the translation department of the Croatian Information Centre and has been active as a writer and translator since 1989.
ADDRESS:
Ksenija Horvat, Fancevljev prilaz 3/VII, 10020 Novi Zagreb Phone: 01 /674-008
Croatian Information Centre, Trg S. Radića 3, 10000 Zagreb Phone: 01/615-116 (Fax: 450-700)