Studio Hrdinů / Jan Horák, Michal Pěchouček – Marbot

Venue: Gong – Hall
Time: 19:30
Length: 70 min
Admission: 200 CZK / 100 CZK (students)

author: Wolfgang Hildesheimer
director: Jan Horák, Michal Pěchouček
scene: Michal Pěchouček, Dominik Hejtmánek
costumes: Tereza Kopecká, Ondřej Kinský
music: Dominik Gajarský
dramaturgy: Jan Horák
cast: Bohdan Bláhovec, Jiří Štrébl, Eva Hacurová, Petra Lustigová

Our adaptation borrows the novel’s main storyline which we interpret rather loosely. Marbot holds a dialogue with an ageing Goethe, the iconic authority of the period. He approaches Goethe as he is the author of a novel about freedom, The Sorrows of Young Werther. Marbot takes this step as a result of his incestuous relationship with his mother, whose fulfilment caused their definitive separation. His internal defence of the loving relationship with his mother is the only possible point of departure for him, albeit ineffective, to get to know European culture, especially literature and the creative arts. He invents a utopian concept of art criticism, based on psychoanalysis, which is mediated for the viewer as a unique solution of the artistic form of our production.