The Farewell Party

ABOUT PERFORMANCE

Traditions. How to live, keep and pass them on, or rather abandon them in the name of the new world. This is the main theme of the new play by a young playwright Eliška Říhová, which will be performed in the world premiere at the New Stage. The theme presents multiple layers, from the viewpoint of the old and younger generations. One of them opens a seemingly simple situation. A group of young people sharing a flat find a goose in the freezer and discuss what to do with it. They cannot even imagine preparing it as a traditional Sunday roast.

The question is, what do you do with a goose when being vegan is becoming the new normal? Is the tradition of Sunday as a festive day tenable? Is it ok to throw away the grandma’s armchair, and do we have the right to insist that our offspring carry on our rubbish? Is it possible to reinvent traditions anew, from the scratch?

Approximate running time: 1 hour 30 minutes

This performance is in Czech language.

CAST AND CREATIVES

Father: Pavel Batěk
Mother: Martina Preissová
Petr: Petr Vančura
Bára: Veronika Lazorčáková
Štěpán: Štěpán Lustyk
Agáta: Anna Fialová
Descendants and ancestors: Alois Švehlík, Jindřiška Dudziaková, Matyáš Řezníček, Tomáš Čapek, Jana Pidrmanová, Jakub Müller, Matěj Šíma, Alena Štréblová, Tereza Vilišová, Václav Němec

Stage director: Eliška Říhová
Dramaturgy: Marta Ljubková
Sets: Dragan Stojčevski
Costumes: Linda Boráros
Music and Sound Design: Jan Burian ml.
Lighting design: František Fabián
Sets assistant: Marianna Bouřilová