The Tin Drum
Vojtěch Vondráček, Miloslav König, David Petrželka, Kateřina Císařová, Anna Kameníková, Johana Matoušková, Štěpánka Pencová, Markéta Ptáčníková
A child who refuses to grow up. A child whose singing can shatter reality. A child named Oskar Matzerath – narrator, provocateur, witness, and prosecutor of the twentieth century.
The production of The Tin Drum, dramatized by German director and playwright Armin Petras, is based on Günter Grass's novel, which brutally and grotesquely depicts the absurdity of history from a different perspective. From the perspective of the lowly. From the perspective of the excluded. The production takes place in a now defunct space where Polish, German, Jewish, Hungarian, and other influences meet. On the border between identities and languages, it follows the end of an era through the eyes of a man who has decided not to grow up.
Who is Oskar, really? An ordinary child who rebels against authority? A genius outsider? A psychopath? A symbol of a society that prefers to turn to fantasy rather than face its own responsibilities? A metaphor? Or just an ordinary person like everyone else?