Hands Full of Revolution
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: November 17, 2015, 19:00 – 21:00
The Silesian Theatre Opava presented its premiere of the play Plné ruce revoluce (Hands Full of Revolution) by director Janek Lesák and dramaturge Natálie Preslová exactly a year ago.
The show is a unique depiction of the events of that time through the eyes of children of the revolution – both its creators were born in November 1989. The genesis of the production has been captured in a short documentary by students of the Silesian University’s Multimedia Technology Department, who themselves were born in the post-revolution period.
The Václav Havel Library is presenting the Czech premiere of the documentary Plné ruce revoluce (Hands Full of Revolution) as part of the Festival of Freedom. The evening will include a discussion with the creators of the play and the film, historian Jiří Suk and revolutionary Alexandr Vondra. Petr Jančárek will host the event.
The main heroes of the play are three real figures: Václav Havel, Jiří Křižan and Alexandr Vondra. Discussing its genesis, the director Lesák said: “They often say that we, the young generation, are no longer interested in the events of that time 25 years ago and that we don’t know anything about them. I have no problem admitting I don’t know anything about them, because we are unlikely to ever comprehend even a fragment of what a participant in a 100,000-strong demonstration experienced, or to grasp the atmosphere of such a place. But it’s not true it doesn’t interest us. We’re the generation in which parents and acquaintances spoke to us from a young age about how things were in the period when we were born. The revolution does interest us, not just because it markedly influenced the world in which we grew up and in which we live today, but also because it is closely linked to the first years of our lives.”