Don Quixote. The Waste Land
With this site-specific project, the SKUTR directorial tandem returns to creative metaphorical theatre – a theatre of poetry.
All dates
Saturday
5/10/2025
7:00 PM
The State Opera Prague
Praha
690 CZK
Wednesday
5/21/2025
7:00 PM
The State Opera Prague
Praha
690 CZK
Thursday
5/22/2025
7:00 PM
The State Opera Prague
Praha
690 CZK
Friday
6/13/2025
7:00 PM
The State Opera Prague
Praha
690 CZK
Wednesday
6/18/2025
7:00 PM
The State Opera Prague
Praha
690 CZK
Description
ABOUT
Thomas S. Eliot wrote his poem – an opus magnum of the 20th century – as a reflection of the horrors of WWI and situated it in a landscape woven from the historical consciousness of humanity and voices of European literature. Through this open barren land, where town meets sea and desert and the state has collapsed, rambles Don Quixote, the wandering knight who upholds the values of chivalry and never loses his faith in the power of love. Is he obsolete, foolish? While Don Quixote’s acts are incomprehensible by reason, our hearts root for him. The production searches for the fundamental values in a country swept by the war. It is also a tribute to the naive adoration of Dulcinea del Toboso and to the thousands of heroes conceived by human imagination, the great spirits shining as a fulcrum in the moving world.
With this site-specific project, the SKUTR directorial tandem returns to creative metaphorical theatre – a theatre of poetry. On a journey through the land... Like the voices of the Waste Land. On a journey... Like Don Quixote, Faust, or Hamlet. The experimental production will take the audience on a journey, too – through the premises of the State Opera. The NT Drama thus wishes to attract the public interest in the building itself, which will thus again become a point of interest and inspiration for the production, like in Marian Amsler’s Mephisto.
For the Czech version, the creative team has chosen the modern and award-winning translation of The Waste Land by Petr Onufer, prepared in 2022 for the centennial of the first publication of the poem. At the same time, 2025 marks the 60th anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s death.
Czech premieres: 30 April and 6 May 2025 at the State Opera
WARNING: The performance is not suitable for disabled viewers with limited mobility or using wheelchairs. The auditorium is situated on the revolving stage.
Cast
Denisa Barešová
Pavla Beretová
Magdaléna Borová
Marie Poulová
Marek Daniel
Vladimír Javorský
Ondřej Pavelka
David Prachař
Petr Vančura
Creators
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, Thomas S. Eliot, SKUTR (Martin Kukučka a Lukáš Trpišovský)
Překlad Pusté země
Petr Onufer
Režie
SKUTR (Martin Kukučka a Lukáš Trpišovský)
Dramaturgie
Róbert Štefančík
Scéna
Martin Chocholoušek
Kostýmy
Simona Rybáková
Hudba
Petr Kaláb
Světelný design
Karel Šimek
Pohybová spolupráce
Jan Kodet