The Father Watches Over the Daughter
Do children have responsibility for their parents?
Basic information
The New Stage
Approximate running time1 hour 30 minutes, no intermission
LanguageIn Czech
PremiereFebruary 17, 2022
A seemingly banal situation in the life of a father in the 21st century – taking his daughter to a playground – served for the dramatist Ondřej Novotný as a springboard for his humorous, ironic, yet also serious, essay on the theme of fatherhood and manhood in today’s turbulent times.
Cast
- 2022-2023
Creatives
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By means of depicting his encounters with his wife, father, friends and passers-by, the author paints a plastic picture of the mental landscape of a man who bears a host of autobiographical traits, yet may be identified with by everyone who is or plans to be a father.
Besides trivial, often comical parenting situations and conflicts at the children’s playground, the play deals with weighty topics with a social overreach, such as fear of the future, the contradiction between freedom and safety, as well as the issue of elderly people’s loneliness.
Novotný created his play within the New Drama Studio, which the National Theatre Drama company has run since the beginning of 2019.
Official photos: Patrik Borecký
WARNING: The performance involves the use of beer, smoke, vulgarisms, and light and fire effects. Please feel free to leave if you are uncomfortable. The staff will help you to find the way out or back.
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