2024-05-23 12:00:32
The communists constructed the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century on his teachings, but he nonetheless has admirers. The Goose on a String Theater follows within the footsteps of the German thinker Karl Marx in a brand new manufacturing referred to as The Saga of the Marx Household. It depicts him as a demonized and deified persona, repeatedly buried and crucified once more. It additionally traces the reverberation and impression of Marx’s theories many years after his dying.
The Friday premiere, which was offered out, is adopted by the closest repeats on Might 20 and 22.
“It fascinates us how the theoretical concerns of 1 single individual can have a huge effect on the destinies of complete nations, the lives of a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of individuals. We’re focused on who is definitely hiding underneath the massive deposits of varied interpretations and misinterpretations, distorted concepts, myths and lies,” says director Jan Santa Claus.
Collectively along with his colleagues, he additionally questions whether or not, after so many tragic experiences, folks ought to nonetheless dream of a greater and fairer society, or whether or not skepticism in direction of idealistic concepts is suitable.
The manufacturing was created as a dramatization of the novel of the identical title by the Spanish creator Juan Goytisol, which was printed within the Czech translation by Štěpán Zajac by the Rubato publishing home. “I used to be not solely captivated by how freely and playfully the creator handles a troublesome matter that touches virtually each conceivable facet of our social life, however above all by the best way he creates photos and conditions that clearly have dramatic potential,” describes Mikulášek.
He works as an everyday director of Prague’s Na zábradlí Theater, however usually returns to Husy on a String, the place since 2019 he has ready two – additionally literary – productions, Don Quixote and the Khazar Dictionary.
“Identical to within the two earlier instances, even now, a difficult-to-stage literary work turned the place to begin for a particularly free and playful, grotesquely imaginative theatrical journey,” says Martin Sládeček, creative director of Goose on a String, in any other case co-author and dramaturg of the manufacturing.
Amongst different issues, the information is harking back to the uproar prompted in 2018 by the disclosing of a larger-than-life statue of Karl Marx in his hometown of Trier. Communist China gave it to him.
Marx is performed by Dalibor Buš. “The truth that we’re returning to Marx is smart, as a result of we’re doing very properly right here in Europe and the Czech Republic, however on the similar time half of the world’s wealth is within the fingers of some folks, so it’s no surprise that Marx resonates,” he mentioned on the TV present Occasions in tradition.
Together with different members of the ensemble, Gabriela Štefanová, former longtime supporter of Geese on a String, and Viktor Kuzník from the Nationwide Theater in Brno will seem as company within the manufacturing.
By way of a pre-recorded video survey projected on the stage, randomly approached residents of Brno additionally carry out within the Saga of the Marx household. The creators requested them on the road what they may consider in relation to Marx.