Divadlo Husa na provázku - Karel Čapek: Hordubal (ah, table, chair, light and column)
9/4/2010 20:00 - A ballad about love, sin and guilt, about a return home and a search for a lost heart. A bit of a detective story. One of the master works of Karel Čapek in a production by J. A. Pitínský. PRAGUE PREMIERE !
What is the real truth about Hordubal and Polana? What is the truth about Štěpán Many? People are too complicated to have only one face. The first part in the Čapek project by Divadlo Husa na provázku. Featuring Vladimír Hauser, Eva Vrbková or Andrea Buršová, Robert Mikluš, Jiří Pecha, Josef Králík and other members of the company.
Notes on the creation of Hordubal
Karel Čapek wrote Hordubal in 1932, inspired by a court case in the Lidový noviny newspaper based on a true story which took place in Sub-Carpathian Rus (then a part of Czechoslovakia), involving a returnee from America called Juraj Hardubej, who became the victim of a murder. Čapek, however, was interested in more than telling a story from the crime pages. Karel Čapek discussed his approach in the introduction to the novel trilogy Hordubal, Meteor and An Ordinary Life: “The story is always different depending on who tells it; everyone puts themselves in it… Whatever we look at is at the same time that thing and something from ourselves, something our own and personal; our knowledge of the world and of people is somewhat like a confession.” That is why we can assume that Čapek put so much of his own pain and suffering into the character and story of Juraj Hordubal. According to Čapek, Hordubal is an “extraordinarily gentle and contemplative man” and F. X. Šalda in his review observed that he is a “meditative creature, a dreamer, a poet or a philosopher in a rudimentary state." Many readers and experts consider the trilogy of Hordubal, Meteor and An Ordinary Life, which have attributes of the noetic, for they ask questions about the “possibility to know humans”, as the crowning achievement of Čapek’s work. The renowned expert on the works of the Čapek brothers, Jiří Opelík, had this to say about the creation of the trilogy: “It seems that the plan for the trilogy, that is, for the development of Hordubal, matured in Čapek’s mind only after he had finished Hordubal or at most during its creation, that he certainly did not exist before work began on Hordubal.”
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Dramatization: Josef Kovalčuk
Director: Jan Antonín Pitínský
Dramaturgy: Miroslav Oščatka, Josef Kovalčuk
Sets: Jan Štěpánek
Costumes: Jana Preková
Music: Petr Hromádka
Choreography: DHNP
Music supervisor: Martin Jakubíček
Stage manager: Daniela Cádrová
Trainees: Jakub Šmíd (FAMU) and Marta Stosio (JAMU)
Czech premiere March 6 and 8, 2010 in the big theatre of the Divadlo Husa na provázku.
Hordubal Vladimír Hauser
Polana Eva Vrbková or Andrea Buršová
Hafie, their daughter Martina Krátká
Štěpán Manya Robert Mikluš
Vasil Gerič, Mayor of Kriva Josef Králík
Andrej Pjosa, called Husár Michal Dalecký
Berkovič, innkeeper Michal Bumbálek
Gejza Fedeleš Tomáš Sýkora
Marta Fedelešová Kateřina Jebavá
Juliana Varvarinová Anežka Kubátová
Marja Jánoš Ivana Hloužková
Cikánka Ivana Hloužková
Notary Milan Holenda
Gelnaj, old chief of police Pavel Zatloukal
Biegl, young police officer Jiří Hajdyla
Doctor Milan Holenda
Judge Michal Bumbálek
State prosecutor Gabriela Ježková
Lawyer Michal Dalecký
Mechajl Hordubal Vladimír Hauser
Oxeňa, his wife Eva Vrbková or Andrea Buršová
Míša, a shepherd Jiří Pecha
IN CZECH
TICKETS: CZK 290
student/senior CZK 190
Archa.klub discount 30%.
Numbered seating
Tickets available from Archa Theatre Box Office and TICKETPRO outlets (subject to additional booking fee)
Photo: Viktor Kronbauer
