N° OF CHARACTERS: 2 (2 female)
N° OF ACTS: 1
SETTING: A hairdressing salon in the suburbs
TIME: The present
WRITTEN IN: 1998

SUMMARY:
One late spring afternoon, Beba comes to Buco's modest hairdressing salon in the suburbs to have her hair done. It is Sunday. They are alone. Beba is in a hurry. Buco conceals her anger. A feeling of anxiety swells in the salon. As the radio blares out weird commercials, and the neighbours upstairs perform their ritual savagery, Buco and Beba start to analyse their personal histories.

Directed by the author, the play was premiered at the &TD Theatre in Zagreb on October 2 1999. It won the best drama text prize at the International Golden Lion Festival of Chamber Theatres in Umag in August 2000.

ASJA SRNEC TODOROVIC (Zagreb, 1967) graduated in Dramaturgy at the ADA in Zagreb. She won the University of Zagreb's Chancellor's Prize (1988) for her play Dead Wedding, which was premiered in Zagreb in 1990, and in Rennes in 1994. A book with her plays (Dead Wedding and Dangerously Muffled) was published in 1991 (by the &TD Theatre). Green Room won a prize at the Marul's Days festival in 1992. Her play In the Hollowing Circle won first prize in the 1997 BBC International Playwriting Competition, and it was premiered by the BBC in 1998. Mariages morts was published in France in a Les Solitaires Intempestifs edition in 1998. A.S.T. has also written the following plays: Just Before Morning, Flourish, The Slit, The Pause, End of the World, Melancholy, and While the Stars Were Snowing.