May 11th Thu, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM | Moravské divadlo
Yuri Andrukhovych THE MOSCOVIAD Divadlo X10 Prague
A phantasmagorical journey through the decaying metropolis of the collapsed Eastern empire. Images from Moscow as a freakish “Tolkienesque Mordor populated by blind drunk orcs” – at times when “Russian imperial pride spilled like sewage all over the former Soviet Union”. A scary anabasis by the Ukrainian poet mapped by the director Dušan D. Pařízek.
26th Flora Theatre Festival opening.
Ticket price: 60–390 Kč
It is clear from the first minutes that if Pařízek was looking for a text that would reveal to a local audience the historical and cultural sources of Russian aggression in Ukraine, and that did so in a way that was both engaging and entertaining, he could hardly have chosen a better one. (…) Deliriousness, fractious grandiosity and cruelty alternating with self-pity – the way Andrukhovych described the atmosphere of the ending empire in the early 1990s – is still true today.
Marta Martinová, A2, 1/2023
With this production, Pařízek responds to the war in current Ukraine, which he views as a Kafkaesque or Bulgakovian swarm of ghostliness and darkness in which the individual is alienated from all events, even from himself. The concentrated, non-exhibitive acting, the subtle work with lights and sound, and above all the theme of the individual drowning in the irremovable mud of history and the present, which are intertwined, make the production a supreme – timeless yet topical – work of art.
Divadelní noviny (1/2023, Success of the month section)
The perpetually drunken hero finds himself in situations that may be burlesque and exaggerated, but are ruthlessly accurate in relation to reality, capturing the essence of Russian reality and mentality. (…) The characters are constantly haunted by their oversized silhouettes, shadows reflected mainly on the back wall of the stage. Everyone seems to have a double in the back. Or a cop. Or the spectre of bloody history.
Marie Reslová, Aktuálně.cz, 5 January 2023
dramatization, stage design and directed by Dušan David Pařízek
translation Miroslav Tomek, Alexej Sevruk
dramaturgy Ondřej Novotný
dramaturgic cooperation Ralf Fiedler
music Peter Fasching
costume design Kamila Polívková
poster Terezie Chlíbcová
assistant director Jan Doležel
assistant to stage design and costume design Magdaléna Vrábová
cast
Gabriela Míčová, Stanislav Majer, Václav Marhold, Martin Pechlát
premiere 18 December 2022
The production was created in dramaturgical collaboration with Ralf Fiedler, dramaturge of Deutsches SchauSpielHaus Hamburg and with the financial support of Česko-německý fond budoucnosti.
Dušan David Pařízek (1971) ranks among the most successful Czech theatre directors at home and abroad. He was the founder of the Pražské komorní divadlo (Prague Chamber Theatre), which under his direction (2002–2012) became the most progressive and profiled theatre scene in the Czech Republic. Its dramaturgy was based on demanding texts by authors such as Schwab, Bernhard, Jelineková and Handke, whose texts Pařížek revisited last year with a production of Zdeněk Adamec. Self-Accussation in a production by Divadlo Na zábradlí (presented by Flora 2022).
At the beginning of the millennium, Pařízek established himself on the most important German-language stages throughout Europe. Pařízek is a multiple winner of the Nestroy Theatre Prize and the Critics' Prize of Theater heute magazine. He is currently directing mainly on the German-language stages of Deutsches Theater Berlin, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and Schauspielhaus Bochum.
His work can be seen as a study of the relationships within Central European countries and national identities, which despite their common history are very diverse and whose national myths need to be revised. This was, for example, the theme of the recent title The Glory and Fall of King Otakar at the Volkstheater with Karel Dobrý in the lead role, or the co-production project of Studio Hrdinů and Theater Bremen, The Case Schweik (at Flora 2017).
Pařízek's production of Ridiculous Darkness at Vienna's Burgtheater won the prestigious Theater heute survey and was the German-language production of the 2014/2015 season. His adaptations at the local Volkstheater – The Old Masters (Bernhard) and Self-Accusation (Handke) – have also been highly acclaimed. All three Austrian titles were exclusively shown by the 20. Flora Theatre Festival in the section Directed by: Dušan D. Pařízek.
Prague's Divadlo X10 theatre is an open platform for contemporary theatre and other types of live art. Since its founding in 2013, it has undergone a tumultuous evolution from an alternative stage hosting at the Strašnice theatre to a respected, experimentally based production house located in DUP39 (Dům uměleckého průmyslu).
Divadlo X10 was founded by current director Lenka Havlíková, in-house director Ewa Zembok and actress Anna Císařovská. The artistic management consists of two more Ondřejs – the dramaturg and playwright Novotný and the director Štefaňák, who is also the artistic director of X10. Apart from drama, the stage also develops the art-performative project Y events and creates projects in the virtual space Tribuna X10 and Play Havel.
Divadlo X10 also initiates the creation of new plays. Regular collaborators include directors Štěpán Gajdoš and Tomáš Loužný. Jan Frič, Barbara Herz and Dušan D. Pařízek, Michal Hába's Lachende Bestien and the dance collective Dočasná Company are also its regular guests. The last premiere of this year's tenth anniversary season is Kamila Polívková's Exile – the final part of Feuchtwanger's novel trilogy The Waiting Room.
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Interview with Dušan D. Pařízek (in Czech)
-https://denikn.cz/…n-d-parizek/
-https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/…oval-8901624
-https://denikn.cz/…n-d-parizek/
-https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/…oval-8901624
Interview with Yuri Andrukhovych at his visit in Olomouc 2020 (in Czech)
https://olomouc.rozhlas.cz/…ouci-8136354
https://olomouc.rozhlas.cz/…ouci-8136354
Discussion with Yuri Andrukhovych at the occasion of visitin the Moscoviad production (in Czech)
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Reportage about Ukrainian autrohos reflection on the Russian aggression (in Czech)
photo Patrik Borecký
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