Event listing: 1914 | Estates Theatre (Stavovské divadlo) | Wed 30 Apr 2014 at 19:00

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Estates Theatre (Stavovské divadlo)Železná, Staré Město, Prague, Central Bohemian Region, 110 00, Czech Republic

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Programme

1914

Performers

Robert Wilson	Director, Set Designer
Václav Postránecký	Actor	Optimist
Vladimír Javorský	Actor	Pessimist
Soňa Červená	Mezzo-soprano	Time

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Březina's 1914: “It's worse than it ever has been"

Frank Kuznik, 30th April

In the preface to his monumental 1919 play The Last Days of Mankind, Austrian satirist Karl Kraus said that it would take 10 evenings to stage and was “intended for a theater on Mars”. The National Theatre in Prague has got the running time down to slightly under two hours. Otherwise, that's not a bad description of what premiered on Wednesday night under the title 1914.

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