Divadlo Husa na provázku:
The Marx Family Saga
He's writing the new Faust. He's barely scraping by. He's looking for an apartment after he and his family were evicted from Dean Street. He discusses with comrades, with the forefather Abraham, as well as with animated images of builders. He indulges in hydrotherapy. He reflects in the windows of porn stores, sweeps Moscow nightclubs, winks at us from pictures. He is sitting with Jenny in Hampstead watching a live broadcast of the collapse of the Soviet bloc. He's switching to Dallas. Or another endless series from a new world subject to the laws of the market. He escapes us. Founder of scientific socialism. Philosopher and poet. Prophet and deceiver. Loving father. Sad clown. Devil! Karl Marx. He has influenced our present more fundamentally than any other intellectual of modern times, it is said. He strove for justice and solidarity – and yet we know him above all as the inspirer of cruel dictatorships. What do we really know about him? And why should we still want to know anything about him?
19:30 Lecturers' introduction The Marx Family Saga
Marx has influenced our times more profoundly than any other intellectual of modern times. But who was Karl Marx really? Prophet or devil? a hero of the working class, a naive dreamer or a forerunner of dictatorship? What legacy did he leave in the minds of people across generations? What would he consider the opium of humanity today? And could neo-Marxists take over the world
21:45 Šuplík session
A regularly irregular string band that actually came into being somewhat by accident. On the occasion of the Prague premiere of The Marx Family Saga, they'll play a more intimate line-up and a half-unplugged version of covers of all kinds and a few original songs from the drawers.
strobe lighting effects
artificial smoke
smoking cigarettes
Jan Mikulášek (1978) je kmenovým režisérem pražského Divadla Na zábradlí. Jeho jevištní adaptace Bernhardova Mýcení se v Cenách divadelních novin stala Inscenací roku 2018. Na Provázek se tento tvůrce působivého výtvarného gesta pracující se střihem, hudebním kontrapunktem a paralelně se odvíjejícími ději vrací po mimořádně úspěšných inscenacích Don Quijote a Chazarský slovník.
stage production team
Director: Jan Mikulášek
Dramaturge: Martin Sládeček
Decor: Marek Cpin
Video: Ondřej Kocar
Asistentka režie: Anna Magdalena Pavlicová
Asistentka výpravy: Vendula Klímová
Stage manager: Hana M. Senková
Photographer: David Konečný
persons and cast
Karl: Dalibor Buš
Friedrich: Dominik Teleky
Jenny: Markéta Matulová
Jennynchen: Zdislava Pechová
Lenchen: Gabriela Štefanová j.h.
Weitling: Vladimír Hauser
Freddy, Reviewer: Viktor Kuzník j.h.
Policeman, Landlord, Marx, etc.: Dušan Hřebíček
Mover, Marxist, Speaker, etc.: Matouš Benda
Large auritorium, free seating
In his ingeniously composed work, the prominent Spanish author Juan Goytisolo (1931-2017) unleashes a crazy game of filters through which we perceive Marx's elusive and contradictory personality. He takes us on a rollercoaster through space and time, shaking up the image we have made not only of Marx, but of our relationship to the "generation of dead ancestors" in general. And with his gaze fixed on persistent poverty, widening social divides, accelerating planetary devastation, the migration crisis, xenophobia and racism, he asks whether the step forward we celebrated with the fall of communism could not, in a certain sense, also be a leap backwards.
