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Literature festival Prima Vista 2014

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Roman Sikora participated at the 11th Prima Vista Literature Festival that took place from 6th to 9th of May 2014 in Tartu and Rakvere.

A contemporary Czech playwright, journalist and critic Roman Sikora participated at the 11th Prima Vista Literature Festival that took place from 6th to 9th of May 2014 in Tartu and Rakvere.

Roman Sikora is known to Estonian audience as an author of The confession of a masochist (translated by Küllike Tohver), a play recently staged by VAT Theatre in Tallinn. According to Aare Toikka, the artistic director of VAT Theatre, Sikora's piece "is one of the most interesting reflections of the modern days written lately. He sees the modern organisation of life through a distorting mirror by adding grotesque exaggerations and dream-like connections that emphasise the absurdness of the polity. Sikora's text is surprising, amazing and shaking goody to the actors and daresay to the audience". In addition to Tallinn, The confession of a Masochist is also played in the theatres of Bern and Prague, and in May 2014 to be premiered also in Poland. Roman Sikora had a presentation of his play The confession of masochist  in Prima Vista festival together with  Raivo E. Tamm, the main protagonist of this play in VAT Theatre. Sikora also visited VAT Theatre in Tallinn and had a discussion with its members.
 
Also a part of the Prima Vista's programme was Polish journalist and master of reportage Mariusz Szczygieł to present his compendium of reportages now translated into Estonian called ”Gottland”. The book narrates about the 20th century Czechoslovakia and fetched the author with the European Book Prize in 2009.