A multi-genre production based on Szczepan Twardoch’s novel of the same name, portraying a conflicted man caught up in the great events of history.

Konstantin Willemann is a thirty-year-old living in Warsaw in October 1939. A bon vivant with a taste for fine wines, fast cars and his mother’s money, Konstantin loves his Polish wife and son above all else. But Kostya also loves morphine coursing through his veins and the body of Salome, a Jewish prostitute, beneath him. The Black Angel whispers words into his ear that are even more intoxicating and destructive than a syringe filled with liquid happiness.

Konstantin longs for the certainty of an order that once seemed unshakeable. But that order collides with the reality of the first weeks of the Second World War and the occupation of his beloved city, violated by Wehrmacht troops. The son of a German aristocrat and a Polonised Silesian woman fights for Poland in a Nazi uniform; yet in truth, Kostya is neither Polish nor German, neither a resistance fighter nor a traitor. So who is Konstantin Willemann, Kostya, Kostik? Someone, no one. He exists in this world for no other reason than to live. His existence serves nothing but itself.

This ambiguous individual is also reflected in the social challenges and dilemmas of our own time, which disrupt the established order and demand clear answers to questions of identity and the positions we take. Look more closely at the blurred figure of Kostik, and we may also recognise a person tossed about by the frenzy of the 21st century.

Adaptation: Matouš Danzer a Ewa Zembok

Translation of the novel: Michal Alexa

Direction: Ewa Zembok

Dramaturgy: Matouš Danzer

Set and visual design: Jana Hauskrechtová, Alexandra Gnidiak, Jaro Repka

Video art: Lidya Arinna Emir

Music: Mana Dark, Jan Čenich

Performance: Dana Marková, Václav Marhold, Lidya Arinna Emir

Production: Simeon Hudec, Pavlína Košáková

Dates and tickets: Oct 2, 7:30 PM & Oct 3, 7:30 PM

The performance will be presented in Czech.