PROGRAM CHANGE: The Absolute (A Cabaret about the End of the World)

Karel Čapek, Egon Tobiáš and others

DEJVICE THEATRE, Prague, CZE
Direction
Anna Davidová

Set and costume design
Eva Jiřikovská

Music
Ivan Acher

Dramaturgy
Tereza Marečková

Performing
Lukáš Příkazký, Václav Neužil, Jaroslav Plesl, Anna Schmidtmajerová, Simona Babčáková, Lenka Krobotová, Tomáš Jeřábek

Premiere
5 December 2018

News has recently appeared in the media about a strange, yet unidentified force that leads the citizens of Prague into unlikely situations. Some sing in supermarket checkout queues, others preach, and some allegedly even levitate (!); drivers give way to each other so vehemently that all traffic comes to a halt. What is behind all this is not quite clear. Many claim that it is the Absolute. So is there common good in store for us, or is it all a sham? We don’t know. The search continues. All that’s clear so far is that the trail leads to Dejvice...