| DOMINICK ANDREAS VARGA |
- A Drama of Identity -
NUMBER OF CHARACTERS: 4 female, 24 male
NUMBER OF ACTS: 3 (+ a Prologue and Epilogue)
PLACE: A courtroom, family home, a hotel
WRITTEN IN: 1992
SUMMARY:
This drama of identity concentrates on the fundamental issue of human nature - manipulation. It is the drama of the Strickland family, the drama of the Trask family their rises and falls about disappointments. Finally, a murder occurs which at first does not particularly disturb any of them. Nonetheless, events finally move in a direction that none of them expected.
The play was published in the 6th issue of Plima magazine (1994).
- A Love Story Comedy -
NUMBER OF CHARACTERS: 1 female, 2 male
NUMBER OF ACTS: 1
PLACE: A flat
TIME: The present
WRITTEN IN: 1992
SUMMARY:
Two American students, Thomas and Jeffrey, manage a small private
magazine with considerable success. Thomas, an ordinary young man, good-looking, is the great hope of the new wave of American writers. Irreplaceable, unstoppable and immaculately unreasonable in regard to everything which has to do with his trade. Particularly where love is in question. Then he really loses control. And that is exactly what will happen. A young, pretty and promising German girl ofAmerican descent will come into his miserable, prosaic (ife. Jeffrey, who at first glance seemsto be the boring half of the male duo, will watch forsome time from the sidelines without any apparent interest. And then something completely
unexpected will happen.
- A Tragedy -
NUMBER OF CHARACTERS: 10 (7 male and 3 female)
NUMBER OF ACTS: 3
PLACE: Spain
TIME: 1568
WRITTEN IN: 1996
SUMMARY:
The young Infante Don Carlos is madly in love with his father's new wife, while the young Princess Eholie is also madly in love with the young Infante. One evening the Infante receives a letter with a strange signature. He hopes that it is the Queen herself writing to him. When he arrives at the agreed meeting place, he realises he has been deceived. Spain is in a shaky political position because of the Court's poorly conducted policies. Don Carlos accuses his father of courting disaster by relying on the wrong people. The King himself proposes that the young Infante he named as the regent of Flanders, in order to estahlish the necessary political balance. It soon happens that a negotiator with a sharp sword will stand in the Infante's way and he does all in his power to prevent the plans being implemented.
- A Tragedy -
NUMBER OF CHARACTERS: 20 (13 male and 7 female)
NUMBER OF ACTS: 4
PLACE: Loudun
TIME: 1643
WRITTEN IN: 1996
SUMMARY:
Father Grandiner resides in the Ursuline convent. Every day he carries out his ecclesiastical duties. One of the nuns, Sister Jacqueline, is madly in love with the priest. After some time, rumours start huzzing about a love affair hetween the nun and the priest. A meeting of the church council is called and the priest has to answer the charges against him. Among other things, he is accused of having raped a number of village women and heing the cause of the pregnancy of a young widow. In the end, the innocent priest ends up on the gallows.
- A Radio-Drama -
THEME: Life after death
NUMBER OF CHARACTERS 5 (2 female, 3 male)
NUMBER OF ACTS: 1
PLACE: France
TIME: 1994
WRITTEN IN: 1996
SUMMARY:
Mathieu is the recently deceased husband, and, at the same time, the main character and narrator of the drama. In his will he made it clear that his ashes were to be sprinkled on the French coast. Mathieu's widow, two children and the widow's lover set out on a journey to comply with the dead man's wishes. But this journey of implementation takes them through many unforeseen and life-threatening situations.
- A Detective Story -
THEME: Exile
NUMBER OF CHARACTERS: 6 (4 male, 2 female)
NUMBER OF ACTS: 2
PLACE: Greece/Scandinavia
TIME: 1968
WRITTEN IN: 1997
SUMMARY:
Political persecution came in the aftermath of the complex political situation in Greece in 1968 and the taking of power by the military junta. The action takes place in an imaginary country called Sudaland where there has been a series of bizarre murders. The police do all they can to track down the killer. The entire play is based on actual events.
BIOGRAPHY:
Dominick Andreas Varga was born in 1973 in Hamburg. He is studying at the department of dramaturgy at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. He writes poems, stories, plays radio plays, and short scripts. Some of his plays have been translated into English and into German, and some of his poems have been published in the United Kingdom. He is learning Romanian and Persian.
ADDRESS:
Dominick Andreas Varga, Hrvatskog proljeća 36/l, 10000 Zagreb,
'Phone/Fax.: +385 1 299 1410, and,
Dinka Šimunovića 19/VI, 21000 Split,
'Phone/Fax: +385 21 565 523