Ladislav Fuks – Miloš Horanský
MR THEODOR MUNDSTOCK
Studio Hrdinů Prague

TUE 16 May — 4.30 pm S-klub

Is it worth it to revolt against one's fate or is it better to accept it humbly?
Miloš Horanský poses this question in his variation of a famous psychological
novel and therefore engages in polemics with Fuks' original text. Compared
to the novel, Horanský's character of Mundstock refuses the emptiness
and defeatist attitude and his way of thinking does not lack the quality of
a revolt, revolt against the destiny. Mundstock, very delicately performed
Profil: Studio Hrdinů by Vojtěch Dyk, is more the symbol of the wandering Jew enduring all the wrongs rather than a single individual trying to cope with the Holocaust through “a training of how to hold a dialogue with death”. Horanský's production is philosophizing poetry, it strives to rehabilitate tragedy as a genre
and provide it with additional “aftertaste” of today's validity. It speaks about
the transformation of humanity in extreme life conditions.

directed by Miloš Horanský
stage design Michal Pěchouček
costumes Tereza Hrzánová
music Ivan Acher
dramaturgy Jan Horák
movement coach Halka Třešňáková
assistant director Lucie Křápková, Anna Mášová

premiere 25 May 2016

cast
Vojtěch Dyk, Gabriela Míčová, Dana Poláková


Stern family is like a gate to the civilian world of fear and anxiety, their
character is aptly depicted by Pěchouček's stage design as well as the
schizophrenic performance of Dana Poláková. The fear of the real
threats remains in the background. The core of the production lies in
the age-old debate with God, love, and death. The question of “What
would Theodor Mundstock tell us about our present?” remains. It is
quite obvious that he would have a lot to say...
Jiří Mareček, A2, 8 June 2016

Poet, theatre and radio production director Miloš Horanský (1932)
was born in Bytča in Slovakia but moved to Kroměříž with his family
in 1939. He studied directing at both theatre academies of DAMU
in Prague and JAMU in Brno. In 1968 he co-founded an anti-regime
club – Klub angažovaných nestraníků (Club of committed non-party
men) and at the beginning of the 1970s he was at the establishing of
the experimental Bílé divadlo.
He has spent his rich artistic life in ensembles of various theatres
all around the Czech Republic; he also focused on Poetic Theatre
(Reduta in Prague, Divadlo Na zábradlí).
Since 1991 he has been teaching at the DAMU academy, which
he directed as a dean from 1994 to 1997; in 1997 he gained the official
title of professor. In recent years he has worked mainly at Divadlo
Viola: The Emöke Legend (2009), Neumím jinak než láskou (2013),
Sváteční Shakespearova pošta (2015). He is author of several poetry
collections (Lunovrat, Textamenty, Grafické básně aneb Autoportrét
psacího stroje), also his poetry for children is rooted in his respect for
word and play with its meaning.