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Greta Garbo’s Secret

Greta Garbo, a retired film actress, seeks to renew a secret love affair, shedding light on the mystique of her past.

Summary

The heroine of this play is Greta Garbo, the celebrated film actress. The play is set at a time fourteen years after her retirement from the world of film. Greta is now exactly fifty years old and this play speaks of her secret love, because of which she had abandoned screen-acting and which now leads her to entertain the crazy idea to renew this old relationship.

The play premiered in the Autumn of 2008 at the Jan Palarik Theater in Trnava, Slovakia and in Theater Madlenianum in Belgrade, Serbia.

Translated into English, French, Polish, Slovakian, and Russian.

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