The Lantern

Tickets
Address Malinovského nám. 1, Brno
Venue's website www.ndbrno.cz…
Length 165 min
Director Štěpán Pácl
Release 13. 12. 2019
Author Alois Jirásek

Performing: Petra Lorencová, Tomáš David, Martin Siničák, Jiří Suchý z Tábora, Monika Maláčová, Zuzana Černá, Ivan Dejmal, Vladimír Krátký, Martin Sláma, Pavel Čeněk Vaculík, Roman Blumaier, Tereza Groszmannová, Bedřich Výtisk, Jan Grygar, Petr Bláha, David Kaloč, Jaroslav Kuneš, Elena Trčková, Jiří Pištěk

When one of the characters in the Jára Cimrman Theatre’s The Stand-In, Karel Infeld Prácheňský, finds out about a brand new play to be staged, he obstinately insists that the company instead opt for “one of the old, time-proven” pieces: either The Lantern or Maryša. Indeed, it would be hard to find titles more emblematic for the Czech theatre. The two plays represent the highlights of the Czech drama’s fundamental lines: fairy tales and rural realism. Every generation gets back to these classics, retelling in its own way the story of either of the so different millers: Libor and Vávra. After more than two decades since the staging by Zbyněk Srba, the time has come for the Mahen Theatre to show again this magical story by Alois Jirásek (1851–1930) considered as a ‘Czech myth’.

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