Viva la Revolución! – Procházková Lenka (2018)

The translation of the Spanish title of this book, Long Live the Revolution!, can be considered the central theme of all the plays included in the volume. "Revolution" plays a role even in Procházková's chamber plays, where the heroines – and in some cases, the heroes – strive to break free from established stereotypes (this applies to the plays Shock Treatment, The Foreign Woman, Graceful, Old Bela, The Mafia, and The Mosquito, but also to the plays Exitus and Cain or Abel?). The revolution as a shift in power relations is primarily reflected in the dramas Four Women of Alexander the Great, depicting the "weak point" of Alexander's conquests, Conversation in Moscow, and El Comandante related to the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968, while in the other works presented here, revolution is treated more as an ironic or even bitter outcome of the struggle for social change: Long Live the Front! "dramatizes" the intrigues of the nobility from Dumas's The Three Musketeers, Celebrity and Viva la Revolución! capture a certain disappointment with the Velvet Revolution of 1989.