MADONA S DIEŤAŤOM - RADOŠINSKÉ NAIVNÉ DIVADLO 17 Oct 2023

MADONNA WITH CHILD

A bitter comedy about people from the house next to the highway

The current family of the Hrdličkovs in Štepka's new bitter comedy Madonna with Child is, I guess, a family like any other in our country: there is a lot of nice things in its life, but also some that are not so nice, in a word, it is a normal family, as if one of many. The Hrdliček family live in a house not far from the highway, so the sound of cars often reaches them. The Hrdlička couple don't even have an ideal life for each other, rather the opposite, but they have two adult beautiful daughters and, moreover, a funny, at first glance deaf grandfather Karol, the father of Kamil Hrdlička, who lives his life with a dog and happy memories in the nearby summer kitchen. Grandpa Karol has a long-standing and futile dispute with the county, which owes him money for expropriated land under the highway, and the beautiful daughters of the landlord Kamil Hrdlička are in turn the focus of men's interest.
During the family celebration of Kamil Hrdlička's fiftieth birthday, a strange situation occurs: Mr. Hrdlička's daughters Pavla and Šarlot unexpectedly renounce their family inheritance in front of their parents for only one reason: both unexpectedly desire to inherit only one thing in the house - a picture that has been hanging on the wall of the Hrdlička family for years - Madonna and Child by Mikuláš Galanda, the founder of Slovak modern art.
Both adamant daughters suddenly want to own Madonna, so the dispute looks like a big family disaster from the first moment. However, the author wants us to follow the heated characters and human relationships with the typical poetic lens of pleasure-seekers and with humor, and at the same time intimately invites the audience to explore with humor and irony not only the varied family circumstances and relationships, but also perhaps to look for some kind of solution to the deadlock situation that has arisen. All of this, of course, - as we are used to in the entertainment industry - in the presence of irony, humor and melodious songs.

Performers: Stanislav Štepka, Maruška Nedomová, Viktória Spišáková or Bronislava Kováčiková, Martina Slobodová or Jana Labajová, Mojmír Caban, Jozef Adamčík or René Štúr, Peter Ondrejička or Michal Spielmann and Ladislav Hubáček.

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