Ondrej Šoth, Michael Kocáb: MILADA HORÁKOVÁ

Milada Horáková was unjustly convicted and executed in the largest of the fabricated political trials that took place in the 1950s in communist Czechoslovakia. The aim of the so-called monster trials was to discourage people from any criticism of the state regime. Part of the big process, also known as "the process of leading a malicious conspiracy against the republic with the group of Dr. Milady Horáková", there were dozens of smaller trials all over the country. Requests for mercy were in vain. Despite the insistence of world personalities such as Einstein, Churchill, Cardinal Griffin, Russel and many others, the then communist president Klement Gottwald confirmed the death penalty for Milada Horáková with his signature on June 24. In total, they decided on 10 death sentences, almost 50 life sentences and other prison sentences totaling more than 7,800 years. Thanks to her steadfastness and courage, Horáková became a symbol of resistance to totalitarian power.

With deep respect, the creators dedicate the production to Mrs. Jane Kánská, the daughter of Milady Horáková, to whom the letter written on death row for her then sixteen-year-old daughter reached an incredible forty years later.

Place : National Theater / Malá scéna