jara cimrman

The Jara Cimrman Theater may be the Czech Republic's most popular theater and one of the world's most unique. Its plays center around the fictional Czech genius Jara Cimrman and feature academic lectures about his work and a play reputedly from his hand. I have been translating these plays sporadically since 1996 or so. Offers to perform these plays in English translation should be sent to the playwrights.

• Introduction to the Theater

• History of the Jara Cimrman Theater

• The Stand-In (complete play)

• Murder in the Pullman Car (complete play)

• The Conquest of the North Pole (complete play)

• Excerpts from other plays

• Summaries of all plays

• Cimrman, Czechness, and Communism: An Interpretive Essay