Prince Mishkin is an Idiot: Resurrection

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
directed by Vladimír Morávek

the legendary production of a brilliant novel - the second part of the tetralogy One Hundred Years of the Cobra

The story of Prince Mishkin as a modern-day Don Quixote who comes to St Petersburg to…save it? The pure and naive aristocrat soon faces the challenge of bringing equality to a society which has long since lost its purity and naivety and has nothing but ridicule for the fragility of such a man. This society, though, is itself dangerously fragmenting and falling apart.

This expressive version of Dostoyevsky’s novel, which borders on insanity, was the second part in the legendary tetralogy One Hundred Years of the Cobra. Even today, in this renewed premiere it still offers a powerful and concentrated experience of the alchemy of human passions.

The play won “Production of the Year 2004” in a survey by Divadelní noviny.

stage production team

  • director: Vladimír Morávek
  • project dramaturg: Petr Oslzlý
  • dramatization: Josef Kovalčuk
  • translation: Tereza Silbernáglová
  • layout: René von Ludowitz
  • music: Petr Hromádka
  • scenography: Jan Štěpánek
  • costume designer: Sylva Zimula Hanáková
  • dramaturge: Lucie Němečková
  • assistant director: Zdeněk Kocián
  • choreography cooperation: Alena Ambrová
  • stage manager: Hana Senková
  • photographer: Jakub Jíra and Magdalena Minolová

persons and cast

  • Kníže Myškin Dominik Teleky
  • Pavel Liška
  • Nastasja Filipovna Eva Vrbková
  • Andrea Buršová
  • Parfen Rogožin Tomáš Milostný
  • Generálová Jepančinová Ivana Hloužková
  • a její dcery Alexandra Růžena Dvořáková
  • Adelaida Simona Hába Zmrzlá
  • Kateřina Jebavá
  • Aglája Vendula Ježková
  • Kateřina Jebavá
  • Generál Ivolgin Pavel Zatloukal
  • Generálová Ivolginová Naděžda Kovářová j.h.
  • Gaňa, její syn Jan Mansfeld
  • Varja, jejich dcera Pavlína Vaňková
  • Kněžna Bělokonská Nicole Maláčová
  • Tockij, hrabě Petr Oslzlý
  • Vladimír Morávek
  • Lebeděv Milan Holenda
  • Ippolit Tomáš Žilinský
  • Ferdyščenko Vladimír Hauser
  • Čtenář; Pticyn Jaroslav Tomáš
  • Družičky Libuše Reinerová
  • Viktorie Pelková

premiere

Jan 12, 2004 - provázek.sál

time

160 minutes, with an intermission