Appearances Are Deceptive

In a monologue on the craving for absolute artistic perfection the directors have primarily accentuated the strong and almost autobiographical line, in which the leading role is given to an artist driven by circumstances into a personal and artistic cul-de-sac. He wages a self-destructive fight with loneliness and is paralysed by the unattainable perfectionism which he despotically demands from his surroundings. In their interpretation of Bernhard’s play Horák and Pěchouček intentionally entrusted the roles of two elderly brothers – an actor and an acrobat – to a single actor. The other actor in the performance is a symbolic character representing the female element and arriving from the world of physical theatre.

In a sense, all actors are fools
Even the greatest ones
Even the most celebrated ones
They run away from their mediocrity
But mediocrity will catch up with them
All without exception

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