The Father Watches Over the Daughter

ABOUT PERFORMANCE

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.

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.

CAST AND CREATIVE

Pavla Beretová
Jindřiška Dudziaková
Veronika Lazorčáková
Taťjana Medvecká
Ondřej Pavelka
Šimon Krupa
Matyáš Řezníček
Radúz Mácha

and more.

Stage director - Jan Frič
Dramaturgy - Jan Tošovský