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Drama

Nightwork

Jáchym Topol

A history of a country where everything is possible…

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English surtitles

Basic information

Venue

Online

Approximate running time

2 hours, no intermission

Language

In Czech, surtitles in English

Premiere

February 14, 2019

Nightwork
Film recording of a theatrical production
Nightwork
We have recorded the last production for you and you can watch it for free on this page.

The theatre adaptation of the third novel by Jáchym Topol (b. 1962), Nightwork, evokes the gloomy atmosphere in a Czech border village at the time of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies – a turning point in our history.

Cast

  • 2023-2024
  • 2024-2025

About

Two brothers, Ondra and Kamil, have been “tucked away” there by their father, who pursues an unidentified secret mission and cannot take care of his sons. Consequently, the boys become the village’s “property”, and serve as the channel through which the exacerbated collective memory flows.

Within several August days, depicted by Topol in his singular imaginative style, we seem to find ourselves in the vicinity of all the major events that a typical Czech village might have experienced – war, displacement, collectivisation, but also witch hunts, pogroms, carnival orgies.

In Topol’s novel, history and timelessness intersect in an alarming, nerve-wrecking dance. The task of transferring this dance to the stage was quite a challenge for the director Jan Mikulášek.

Official photos: Martin Špelda

WARNING: We use tobacco products and firearms during the performance.

With English subtitles based on Marek Tomin’s translation of Jáchym Topol’s novel Nightwork, published by Portobello Books in 2014.

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