Václav Havel: OPENING - PREMIERE

Michal and Viera invited their quiet and unassuming friend Fridrich over to show him their home, to demonstrate everything they had managed to acquire and buy, and to reveal the things they had surrounded themselves with. They demonstrate to him how they live, while at the same time pointing out how wrongly he himself has chosen to live by distancing himself from mainstream society and refusing to conform. This confrontation gives rise to no shortage of grotesque and even absurd moments and situations.

Václav Havel’s one-act play was written in the mid-1970s as part of the so-called “Vaňkovky,” a series featuring the same main character—a sort of alter ego of the author himself. At that time, Havel was a dissident, a man on the margins, out of the game. From this position, the main character of *Vernisáž* also confronts the society of the time, engages with it, and holds up a mirror to it.

NOTICE: THIS PERFORMANCE IS SUITABLE FOR AUDIENCES AGE 15 AND UP.

Venue: National Theater / Small Stage