THEME: Bigamy
N° OF CHARACTERS: 2 (2 males)
N° OF ACTS: 1 scene
SETTING: A Dalmation kitchen
TIME: Now
WRITTEN FROM: 1989 to 1991

SUMMARY:
Two middle-aged men have been married to the same woman for five years without either of them being aware of the other. How is that possible? Their wife works as an attendant in a train which plies between Ljubljana and Split. She spends two days with one husband in Ljubljana, Slovena and the other two with her other husband in Split, Croatia. One day the Slovenian husband finds a marriage certificate in the lining of his wife's coat and realises that his wife has an additional husband. Shocked at this revelation, he tells her nothing but in two month's time travels to Split to meet "his wife's husband". The two men have to agree on how to continue their lives and whose "their" wife will be in the future.There are a series of ups and downs which make it seem that all solutions are possible.

The play was premiered in 1991 and five premieres followed in professional theatres (in Zagreb, Ljubljana, Sibenik, Tuzla, and Sarajevo). The Sibenik performance was repeated 170 times and the one in Ljubljana played 270 times and was seen by 110,000 people. The play has been translated into Slovenian, English, Slovakian, German and Polish. The text was published in the book Funny Plays in the Croatian Centre of ITI-UNESCO Series Mansions in 1996.

MIRO GAVRAN (1961) graduated in dramaturgy from the ADA in Zagreb. He writes plays, novels, film scripts and books for young people. His plays have been translated into fourteen languages, and have attained ninety-one first nights and six thousand performances which have been seen in Croatia, The Netherlands, the United States of America, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria… by more than one million two hundred thousand people. Major plays: Creon's Antigone, Night of the Gods, George Washington's Loves, The Cheery Rectangle, Chehov Says Good-bye to Tolstoy, Its Hard to Say Good-bye, Othello from Susak, Death of an Actor, Shakespeare and Elizabeth, Royalty and Rogues, All About Women, My Wife's Husband, Dr Freud's Patient, and Forget Hollywood. He is the only Croatian dramatist to have had a play performed at the esteemed American Eugene O'Neill Center. Has won some fifteen literary and theatre awards, including the Central Europe Time given in Budapest for the best Central European writers. Gavran has also written five novels.