Dežo Ursiny, Jakub Ursiny, Martina Kinská
directed by Anna Davidová
ursiny stereo
Father is dying, son is growing up. And Raven wasn't taken out again. Outside the windows of the apartment on Fedáková street in Bratislava, time passes. The quiet household pulsates with big beat, conflicts and questions that are difficult to talk about and a little easier... perhaps... to write about. How far can it be from a room to a room? From man to boy and from boy to man? And how to bridge this distance when time is short and the water is rising?
The letters that the forty-eight-year-old cult Slovak musician and documentary filmmaker Dežo Ursiny (1947-1995) and his seventeen-year-old son Jakub (1977) sent to each other across the corridor of their apartment, after Jakub moved in with his father, are an attempt to get along and find harmony in their coexistence, to be even despite being aware of Dežo's terminal illness. With the courage to open up personal and painful topics and the desire to remain honest and truthful, both writers confess their fears, addictions and hopes, reveal their vulnerability and ability to hurt, experience each other's own finiteness and Infinity.
The Provázek production mixes the correspondence published under the title "Ahoj Tato - Milý Kubo" (Hi Dad - Dear Kuba) with Dežo's notes and live songs without choruses, in which the "John Lennon of Bratislava" unmistakably declaimed lyrics full of mundanity, sadness and a desire for freedom. It echoes the harshly fragile world of male intimacy and invites us to listen to the (dis)harmonies of relationships with those closest to us.
Anna Davidová (1984) is one of the most outstanding directing talents of the young generation thanks to her dreamy directorial poetics and spirited imagination. As a freelance director and, from 2019 to 2021, artistic director, who fundamentally contributed to the current shape of the theater at Zelný trh, she created a number of productions at the Husa na provázku theatre that were enthusiastically received by the professional public and the audience. She won the Theatre Critics Award in the Talent of the Year category.
