Erhart

Erhart, with his head of curly hair, enjoys playing the drums and prefers a grey-black grunge look. Now, however, the young man has to take care of his seemingly confused mother and help her fight against an order, delivered in line with the dictates of the new objectivity of the era, that she be evicted from her now dilapidated house. Meanwhile, industrialist Novotny, a candidate for the Senate, lives in far more magnificent settings. What does he have to do with Erhart's father, who first was sent to prison and later disappeared? Jan Březina narrates a detective story full of menacing visions, one which furthermore asks questions of the founding myths of today's Czech Republic. What really happened in the 1990s, during the transition from dictatorship to democracy, in this symbolic provincial town, with its steelworks that saw the literal merging of secrets both big and small.

Text: Kira Taszman
English: Peter Rickerby

Kammerbühne: original version with English subtitles + German simultaneous translation