Divadlo na Tahu Performs Audience
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: December 9, 2024, 19:00 – 21:00
A legendary “Vaněk” play as performed by the Divadlo na tahu theatre company. The one-act play Audience (1975) was originally written for the amusement of the author’s friends at Hrádeček and today features in school leaving exams. It has entertained and educated audiences at theatres in Czechia and beyond.
Times are strange and everything is upside down. The banned writer Ferdinand Vaněk makes his living rolling barrels in a brewery. His supervisor, the brewer, is unable to handle a tricky task sent down “from above”... This beer-based duel between principles and clear life attitudes and a system worked out over years to circumvent principles, and survive without unnecessary ethics and opinions, reveals a regime that distorts character and suppresses individual freedom.
Featuring Tomáš Zámečník and Radek Bár, direction by Andrej Krob, musical accompaniment from Obří broskev.