Barbara Day

Bar­bara Day first vis­it­ed Czecho­slo­va­kia in the 1960s, when she became involved in the new wave of Czech the­atre, on which she pub­lished many arti­cles. Her first book, The Vel­vet Philoso­phers (1999, in Eng­lish, Czech and Hun­gar­i­an) was about the under­ground uni­ver­si­ty in total­i­tar­i­an Czecho­slo­va­kia and the role of the Jan Hus Edu­ca­tion­al Foun­da­tion. In 1990 she helped to estab­lish the Jan Hus Edu­ca­tion­al Foun­da­tion as one of the first non-gov­ern­men­tal orga­ni­za­tions in the Czech and Slo­vak Republics. Since then, she has lived in the Czech Repub­lic as a writer, teacher and trans­la­tor. Her trans­la­tions include the­atre plays in Czech Plays (1994), East­ern Promise (1999) and Viseg­rad Dra­ma 1: Wed­dings (2002); books, cat­a­logues, aca­d­e­m­ic papers and arti­cles for (among oth­ers) Acta Come­ni­ana, Charles Uni­ver­si­ty, Gallery, s.r.o., Insti­tute of Art His­to­ry, Insti­tute of Con­tem­po­rary His­to­ry, Insti­tute of Phi­los­o­phy, JAMU, Jew­ish Muse­um in Prague, Judaica Bohemi­ae, Munic­i­pal House, Muse­um of Czech Lit­er­a­ture, Nation­al Gallery, Nation­al Muse­um, Nation­al The­atre, Prague Cas­tle Man­age­ment, Prague City Gallery, Pražská sce­na and The­atre Insti­tute. Her book Tri­al by The­atre. Reports on Czech Dra­ma appeared in 2019.