Europeana

National Theatre Brno - Reduta Theatre (Czech Republic)

Running time 2 hours. One interval.
The performance is in Czech language with English subtitles.
Première 9 June 2011, National Theatre Brno - Reduta Theatre (CZ)

Director Jan Mikulášek
Authors of dramatisationA Dora Viceníková, Jan Mikulášek
Dramaturg Dora Viceníková
Set and costume designer  Marek Cpin
Music selection by Jan Mikulášek

Performers
Dita Kaplanová
Zuzana Ščerbová
Marie Jansová
Ondřej Mikulášek
Václav Vašák
Jiří Vyorálek
Jan Hájek
Jiří Kniha

Ouředník’s novel Europeana is subtitled A Brief History of the Twentieth Century. It is categorised as fiction, it has no characters, is rooted in fact, and frequently reads like a mad poem. With unflagging irony, Ouředník lays bare the pettiness, infantilism, cruelty, and perversity of the last century in Europe. The overall effect is hypnotic, dizzying, funny, and disturbing. The reader is moved to wonder by all this absurdity: Who are these crazy people? Oh. It’s us.