Plagues and Disgusts

A tragic comedy about the plagues around us and the disgusts inside us.

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PREMIERE: 5th August 2020 8.30p.m. Radničná 1 Bratislava

AUTHOR: Jakub Nvota

STAGE SET AND COSTUMES: Lenka Kadlečíková

MUISIC: A. Kalinka + selection

PRODUCTION: Jana Suraová

A family in their house having a diner. Everyday´s routine to demonstrate a normally functioning family. The father,the mother,the son,the daughter and the granny. They all live together but they know nothing about each other.

Suddenly the masked epidemiologists burst into the house. The unknown epidemic needs extreme action. As for example to establish new border line. Because no-one remembers where the old borders were, the epidemiologists define new ones which lead directly through the house.

It is a very unexpected situation for the family and it brings trouble. The border separates not only the rooms of the house but also the members of the family into two groups without any possibility to cross the border or to walk from the living-room to the kitchen. The absurd situation strips to skin the relations in the family and shows the unknown lives of its members.

No-one ever assumed that granny is a real internet troll or there is a question-who has built a shelter full of food and mineral water under the basement? And there are two other people who come into the situation.

The neighbour – old Mažgut who predicts the future because he sees all that is not going to happen and the Ukrainian Alija who is trapped on her way to join up with her daughter.

So we gradually see that plagues are the plagues but the disgusts are something that is inside us.

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