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The strange and daring merger of the diaries of the “accursed” playwright, writer and recidivist Jean Genet, in which he describes his uniquely self-destructive philosophy of crime and beauty, and the outstanding Czech poetic composition “What God? Man?” by the Baroque author Bedřich Bridel, offers a provoking mixture of topics and their unexpected connections. The narcissist and ruthlessly childish diary full of pleasure, fear and resistance to authority winds elegantly to reach Bridel’s severe and passionate confession and enthusiasm, who lies at his God’s feet the same way Genet lies at the feet of any of his lovers. Both texts abound in similar desire and calling, similar fever of a body that wants to belong. To merge. To find Paradise. Extreme tension between body and soul, their dispute in Baroque, which has been described many times is fulfilled in actions and relations experienced by Genet. Experiencing one’s lowness as the consciously accepted state draws nearer to Bridel’s sweet humiliation, who rhymes as a child, in a regular rhythm, without embellishment. Baroque singing alters with intimate, yet down-to-earth reports of a prostitute and a thief.
About the company
Masopust is an independent theatre with original staging poetics, based in Eliade’s Library at the Theatre on the Balustrade. Masopust in interested in drama made of words. The words of “action” and “play”. It focuses on “dramatic archeology” in contemporary directing.
The repertoire of the theatre covers productions based on challenging literature and poetry, as well as classic dramatic texts (Lenka Lagronová, Virginie Woolf, Josef Topol, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Knut Hamsun, Bedřich Bridel, Jean Genet). Music plays an essential role with most plays, it is often composed live on the stage.
genres
Drama
THEATRE / COMPANY
Carnival / Masopust
CZECH TITLE
Deník zloděje
AUTHOR
Jean Genet, Bedřich Bridel, Martin Dohnal, Miloslav König
DIRECTION
Jan Nebeský
MUSIC
Bedřich Bridel, Martin Dohnal
DRAMATURGY
Tereza Marečková
STAGE DESIGN
Jan Nebeský
COSTUME DESIGN
Petra Vlachynská
LENGTH OF THE PERFORMANCE
80 minutes
STAGE AREA
Small
NUMBER OF TRAVELLING PERSONS
5
LANGUAGE
Czech
AUDIENCE
Adult
AWARDS
• Performance of the year in Theatre Critics’ Awards • Performance of the year according to respondents of Theatre Newspaper • Miloslav König’s performance was acknowledged in the Theatre Newspaper survey (season 2016/2017) and Theatre Critics’ Awards survey • Martin Dohnal received Theatre Critics’ Award for music • The Thief’s Journal received The Grenouille Award for the best Czech performance of the francophone original in 2017
contact
Zdeňka Valečková+420 734 110 936
