Played by: Vojtěch Vondráček, Miloslav König, David Petrželka, Kateřina Císařová, Anna Kameníková, Johana Matoušková, Štěpánka Pencová, Markéta Ptáčníková

160 minutes with break

A child who refuses to grow up. A child who can shake reality with his singing. A child named Oskar Matzerath – narrator, provocateur, witness and accuser of the 20th century.

The dramatization of The Tin Drum by German director and playwright Armin Petras is based on Günter Grass’ most famous novel, which takes a brutal and grotesque look at the absurdity of history from a different perspective. From the perspective of ordinary people. From the perspective of the outcast.

The production is set in a space that no longer exists today, where Polish, German, Jewish, Hungarian and other influences collide. On the border between identities and languages, it observes the end of an era through the eyes of a person who has decided not to grow up. Who is Oskar really? An ordinary child who rebels against authority? A brilliant outsider? A psychopath? A symbol of a society that prefers to turn to fantasy rather than face up to its own responsibilities? A metaphor? Or an ordinary person like any other?

The production The Tin Drum was created with the support of the Never againdprogram of the German-Czech Future Fund.