Ophelia OnlyFans (Czechia)
A new Czech play by Tomáš Ráliš, translated by Eva Danickova. Nominated for this year's Czech Radok Awards for Best Play. A darkly satirical reimagining of Hamlet’s world, focusing particularly on sexual indiscretions and their political/familial repercussions.
Directed by Patrice Miller.
With Yael Haskal, Lucca Lofaro, Michael K. Greene, Nalina Mann, and Gavin Stewart
Followed by a talkback with the playwright
In collaboration with the Czech Center New York and Untitled Theater Company No. 61
In association with the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in New York and Spring Pictures (UK)
Production photo by Patrik Borecký from the current production at Prague City Theatres.
Photo of Ophelia by Kamil Košun
Patrice Miller (director) is a director-choreographer and performance artist best known for their interdisciplinary performance making that is rooted in using social science research and methodologies coded for performance making. She directed and co-created the premieres of This Joint is Jumpin featuring Lillias White (The Other Palace, London), Brian Boone’s The Testament of Josh: A Flesh and Blood Musical, James Judd’s Funny Stories (Crown & Anchor, Provincetown), In the Pines (AUSTRAL Buenos Aires, Argentina). Their acclaimed NYC productions as a director include: Mad Jenny’s Love und Greed, Sarah Jane Johnson’s Devil in the Box, Maggie Cino's Decompression, Marion Fayolle’s In Pieces, Evelyn Piper’s Bunny Lake is Missing. Patrice is the artistic Associate of Untitled Theater Company #61 and with them has choreographed and collaborated on: Paul Auster’s City of Glass, Vaclav Havel’s The Pig … , Money Lab, amongst others. Their installation/performance art work includes appearing in Steve Valk & Michael Klein’s Excavation: Martha Graham Company (COIL), Public Movement (Performa11), Jody Oberfeld Projects (NYLA), and creating work for The Brooklyn Museum, Prelude/CUNY Grad Center, SUNY Stonybrook, Grace Exhibition Space, Postmasters Gallery, NYCFashionweek. They are also a death doula and enthusiastic cat lady.
Dr Eva Daníčková is a Czech theatre translator based in the UK. Most of her translations focus on contemporary drama. Eva’s interest in contemporary theatre translation goes back to a once-in-a-lifetime encounter with Václav Havel at the Orange Tree Theatre in 2008, where she had the opportunity to work with director Sam Walters and the cast on the staging of Havel’s last play *Leaving* in English translation.
Eva completed her MA in Advanced Theatre Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and earned her PhD in Contemporary Theatre Translation at the University of Hull. Eva has translated plays by Czech playwrights Arnošt Goldflam, Petr Zelenka, Petr Kolečko, Lenka Lagronová, Anna Saavedra, and others. Her latest translation of *Ophelia OnlyFans* by Tomáš Ráliš is the result of a close, collaborative creative process of iterative translation that blends Eva’s linguistic and dramaturgical skills with the author’s intention. This process continues to evolve, incorporating the director and actors working with the English translation.
Photo credit: Patrik Borecký
TOMÁŠ RÁLIŠ is a Czech playwright and director. He is the only three-time winner of the prestigious Evald Schorm Award for Young Dramatists. His debut play Safety Belts (2020) was awarded a scholarship at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York, which allowed him to attend classes at Playwrights Horizons Theater School. In 2023, the Drama Panorama forum introduced Tomáš Ráliš as a “highly promising playwright of his generation” with a staged reading of a translation of his play Sorex at the Neue Übersetzungen internationaler Dramatik in Berlin. In the same year, he received the Award of the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports for Outstanding Students and Graduates and got the Czech Theatre Critics' Award for Talent of the Year 2023. In 2024, Tomáš began to establish himself on the international stage as a playwright as well as a director. He was one of the selected authors who participated in the prestigious International Workshop of the Obrador d’estiu at the Sala Beckett in Barcelona. In 2025, the German-language Eurodram committee selected his play Sorex and showcased it as part of DramatikerInnenfestival in Graz and Stück um Stück festival in Mannheim. In June 2025, as part of the Ein Stück: Tschechien festival, the play FlatOut was awarded a prize by audience vote. His last two plays, Compatible Parts and Ophelia OnlyFans, were both nominated for the Theatre Critics’ Awards in the category of Best Czech Play of 2025. The author won this award for Compatible Parts. It is the most prestigious drama award in Czech theatre. Tomas’s Instagram
Part of Rehearsal for Truth International Theater Festival honoring Václav Havel, produced by the Vaclav Havel Center and the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association.
ABOUT THE 2026 REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH INTERNATIONAL THEATER FESTIVAL
Rehearsal for Truth International Theater Festival, honoring Václav Havel, is a showcase of contemporary European theater organized each year in New York City. Conceived in 2017 as a shared endeavor of the Václav Havel Center (VHC) and Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association (BBLA), the festival honors the legacy of Czech playwright, dissident and political thinker Vaclav Havel.
Each edition of Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival addresses current sociopolitical trends in Central and Eastern Europe, offering New York audiences a unique opportunity to witness the region’s theatrical zeitgeist.
The program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. The festival is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.