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La RondeLa Ronde
Drama

La Ronde

Arthur Schnitzler

“A man can only love where he finds purity and truth.”

The Estates Theatre
English surtitles
French surtitles

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    April 2024

    Tuesday 2. 4.
    19:00

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    Saturday 13. 4.
    19:00

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    June 2024

    Monday 3. 6.
    19:00

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    Tuesday 4. 6.
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    Basic information

    Venue

    The Estates Theatre

    Approximate running time

    2 hours 10 minutes, no intermission

    Language

    In Czech, surtitles in English, French

    Premiere

    November 3, 2022

    Ten dialogues about love, life, time and being .

    Cast

    • 2023-2024
    • 2024-2025

    Creatives

    Translation
    Pavel Novotný
    Stage director
    Arthur Nauzyciel
    Dramaturgy
    Marta Ljubková
    Costume design
    Marek Cpin
    Light design
    Scott Zielinski
    Sound design
    Xavier Jacquot
    Choreography
    Phia Ménard
    Assistant choreographer
    Andrea Opavská

    About

    Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) wrote La Ronde at the end of the 19th century, but he did not have the courage to present it to the public at that time. The play was staged only two decades later, in Vienna and Berlin, resulting in a scandal that ended with a fight and charges brough against the theatre management, the author and actors. While such a fuss is hardly conceivable today, Schnitzler’s “ronde” (or whirl) of ten dialogues remains, surprisingly, no less provocative. The set of closed encounters, each involving a sexual intercourse, is mutually interconnected more than might seem at first glance: not only one of the characters in each act appears in the following one, but there are also layered and recurrent motives and topics, of which sex is just one. Indeed, Schnitzler explores primarily social inequality, predetermined scenarios, the inability to abandon established routines, as well as love, loneliness, aging and death. Read superficially, the play is about sex; yet a deeper insight – pursued by the French director Arthur Nauzyciel on the stage of the Estates Theatre – gives an account of the society at the turn of centuries, and time. Everyone seems to be on the run from something that never happened to places that never existed...

    The play of the Austrian dramatist and prose writer was newly translated to Czech by Pavel Novotný (1976), a poet and Germanist and holder of the Magnesia Litera award, who pays special attention to the onomatopoeic qualities of the Czech language. Schnitzler’s La Ronde brings a new director to the NT Drama after a long time – the distinguished French stage director Arthur Nauzyciel, director of the Théâtre National de Bretagne (National Theatre of Brittany – TNB), acknowledged for highly stylised dramatic expression and meticulous work with literary texts. Indeed, the omnipresent emptiness of human relationships, nowadays often reduced to mere satisfaction of erotic and sexual needs, has been a theme he has focused on in several of his previous productions. Nauzyciel’s La Dame aux Camélias was a great theatre event in France before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

    Official photos: Petr Neubert

    WARNING: We use special smoke and olfactory effects and lamp. Suitable for audience from 15 years.

    The production is created in co-production with the Théâtre National de Bretagne (TNB) and is financially supported by the National Theatre Benefactors' Club.

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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 March-August 2024.


    When purchasing online, you can get an e-ticket. You can pick up printed tickets in person at the box offices of the National Theatre.

    What to wear?

    By their appearance, attire and behaviour, the audience is obliged to adhere to the accustomed practice expected from them when attending a theatre performance.

    Parking at the Estates Theatre

    Unfortunately, there is no parking near The Estates Theater. You can use the guarded parking lot in the Kotva shopping center (Revoluční 1/655, Prague 1) and Paladium (Na Poříčí 1079 / 3a, Prague 1).

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