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Drama

100 Songs

Roland Schimmelpfennig

Premieres: 30 and 31 October 2024 at the New Stage

The New Stage
Premiere production
English surtitles

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  • January 2025
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    January 2025

    Friday 10. 1.
    20:00

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    20:00

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    March 2025

    Tuesday 18. 3.
    20:00

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    April 2025

    Tuesday 22. 4.
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    Wednesday 23. 4.
    20:00

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    English surtitles

    Basic information

    Venue

    The New Stage

    Approximate running time

    1 hour 40 minutes, no intermission

    Language

    In Czech, surtitles in English

    Premiere

    Czech premieres: 30 and 31 October 2024 at the New Stage

    A busy yet beautiful September morning, 8.52 a.m. A platform at a railway station, the departure signal is to ring in two minutes. A man reflects on an argument with his wife, a young couple discusses the structure of a romantic comedy, a hungover policeman looks out of the window at a woman running in vain to catch a speeding train...

    Cast

    • 2024-2025

    Creatives

    Translation
    Jana Slouková
    Stage director
    Štěpán Gajdoš
    Movement coach
    Tereza Ondrová
    Translation of English surtitles
    Alžběta Soperová
    Rehearsal accompanist
    Jana Vychodilová

    About

    Each of the travellers carries their own story, chases their own dream, bears their own worries. And each of them plays their particular song in their head. A man watering flowers and Sally, a café waitress humming her favourite song “Bette Davis Eyes” along with the radio, observe the buzzing train from their windows. Then the world stops. At 8.55 a.m., Sally drops her coffee cup. The train explodes right in front of her eyes...

    How to describe the indescribable? And how to describe the minutes just before? Roland Schimmelpfennig remains true to his peculiar features in this play: his specific poetics, post-dramatic structure of the text, repeated lines, and variable casting of the characters. The author narrates the story backwards, minute by minute, revealing the thoughts, desires, passions, and dreams of the unsuspecting people whose fates meet and disappear in the minute of explosion. While the author refers to the 2004 terrorist attack in Madrid as his inspiration, actually all his recent dramas touch on a sudden apocalypse that can be reversed, in one way or another, in the wormhole of time. The December shooting at the Prague Faculty of Arts unfortunately makes this play painfully relevant for the Czech audience.

    Yet, an undercurrent of a strong hope and the urge not to give up flows through the text. Indeed, the events could have unfolded differently had Sally met the man with the sports bag, and you can always stop time with a bit of luck. Or at least catch a falling cup.

    Official photos: Martin Špelda

    WARNING: We use tobacco products and strobe light during the performance. We also use special sounds that may cause discomfort to sensitive audiences and audiences with compensatory hearing aids.

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    Where to buy tickets

    The National Theatre sells tickets up to 6 months in advance. We are currently selling tickets for performances of Drama, Ballet, Opera and Laterna magika taking place in November 2024 – April 2025.


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