Montblanc & Salzburg Festival Young Directors Project
Jan Mikulášek • YDP IV • Der diskrete Charme der Bourgeoisie

Guest performance by Divadlo Reduta, Národní Divadlo Brno

In Czech with German surtitles

LEADING TEAM

Jan Mikulášek, Stage Director
Jan Mikulášek, Dora Viceníková, Adaption
Dora Viceníková, Dramaturgy
Marek Cpin, Stage Design and Costumes
Jan Mikulášek, Music Compilation

CAST

With Dita Kaplanová, Zuzana Ščerbová, Petra Bučková, Ondřej Mikulášek, Jiří Vyorálek, Jan Hájek, Petr Jeništa, Jiří Kniha and Jakub Gottwald

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Luis Buñuel’s Oscar-winning film from the 1970s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (screen-play by Jean-Claude Carrière) provides the springboard for this incisive comedy of social manners and contemporary mores. A group of well-heeled individuals gather together to enjoy a luxurious meal but find themselves repeatedly frustrated for a variety of reasons ranging from the bizarre to the mundane. Influenced by slapstick as well as the surreal, director Jan Mikulášek assembles a sequence of remarkable scenes of appetite and desperation, distinguished by bold images and no-holds-barred ensemble acting. 

David Tushingham