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Franz Kafka: DER PROCESS (The Trial)

A contemporary ballet in two acts based on Franz Kafka’s novel “The Trial” and his personal life

Premiere
Lenght of Performance
105 minutes with break
Place of Performance
Historická budova

FRANZ KAFKA, “THE TRIAL” is a strange and disturbing story of Josef K, who is a banker and single man, who wakes up one morning in his room to find himself under arrest for unknown reasons. From that point his life is never going to be the same again. Through the story he meets many people, trying to find answers to his trial, why was he arrested, questions about the system, the law and his guilt. Josef K's quest for personal justice brings him up against the very complicated hierarchy of the judicial process. In Kafka’s “The Trial” we enter the confusing world of state law, where one can wait years for an uncertain outcome without ever knowing why.

Music byAlfred Schnittke, Wim Henderickx, Hanns Eisler/Heiner Goebbels, Arvo Pärt, Alva Noto (Ryuichi Sakamoto/Carsten Nicolai), Elliott Sharp, Walter Fähndrich, Anton Arensky, Caroline Shaw, Pteri Sirviö, židovské ľudové piesne
Musical arrangement:Jiří Bubeníček a Koen Kessels
Choreography:Jiří Bubeníček
Concept and dramaturgy:Jiří Bubeníček with Nadina Cojocaru
Stage design:Otto Bubeníček
Costume design:Nadina Cojocaru
Light design:Martin Ondrejka a Jiří Bubeníček

 

Jozef K:Gennaro Sorbino / Davide Covone
Leni:Suu Tanaka / Tetiana Lubska 
Fräulein Bürstner:Klaudia Skopintsev / Františka Vargová
Frau Grubach:Shoko Yamada / Lyudmyla Kolimečkov Vasylyeva
Woman in the Court:Silvia Borsetti / Alessandra Improta
Herr Huld, the Lawyer:Dmitro Chebotar / Davide Covone / Maksym Sklyar
Wipper:Dmitro Chebotar / Peter Rolik / Marek Šarišský / Dalibor Fabián
Titorelli's girls:Iryna Ivaniv, Anne Marie Greve Myrhvold, Yevgenia Nikitina / Klaudia Skopintsev, Kei Hirozane, Terézia Fortunová / Vlada Shevchenko, Suu Tanaka
Titorelli, painter:Mariano Covone / Viktor Mikulišin
Father:Petri sirvio a.h., Tomáš Hodermarský a.h.
Prison chaplain Prisco:Mariano Covone / Martin Bányai
Student Bertold:Lukáš Nastišin / Viktor Mikulišin
Uncle Albert Karl:Igor Pashko / Sergii Iegorov / Maksym Sklyar, Viktor Mikulišin / Lukáš Nastišin, Ervin Szelepcsenyi / Martin Bányai, Kostiantin Lubko / Dmitro Chebotar 
Franz and Willem:Davide Covone, Peter Rolík / Igor Pashko, Serhii Harkavyi / Marcell Medvecz, Oleksii Potomkin
Block, the Merchant:Lukáš Nastišin / Kostiantyn Lubko
6 murderers:Davide Covone, Marcell Medvecz / Igor Pashko, Kostiantyn Lubko, Lukáš Nastišin, Viktor Mikulišin, Ervín Szelepcsényi, Peter Rolík, Mariano Covone, Martin Bányai
Mother and two sisters:Anastasiia Kravtsova, Suu Tanaka, Iryna Ivaniv / Veronika Vaňková, Terézia Fortunová, Kei Hirozane
Špy:Davide Covone / Peter Rolík
Bank:Viktor Mikulišin, Ervín Szelepcsényi, Lukáš Nastišin / Kostyantin Lubko, Igor Pashko, Anne Marie Greve Myhrvold, Anastasiia Kravtsová, Alessandra Improta / Kristina Zemanová, Sofia Arriaga-Heald / Igor Pashko, Kostiantyn Lubko, Martin Bányai / Peter Rolík, Marcell Medvecz / Iryna Ivaniv, Terézia Fortunová, Yevgenia Nikitina / Miyu Kitabatake / Diana Zinchenko, Elise Smith / Františka Vargová, Klaudia Skopintsev / Serhii Harikavyi / Dalibor Fábián, Veronika Vaňková / Kristina Deinega, Dmitro Chebotar / Šimon Stariňák, Mariano Covone, Kei Hirozane /Silvia Borsetti
Court room:

Ervín Szelepcsényi / Dmitro Chebotar, Mariano Covone, Martin Bányai / Kostyantin Lubko, Viktor Mikulišin / Lukáš Nastišin, Iryna Ivaniv

/Františka Vargová, Miyu Kitabatake, Sofia Arriaga-Heald, Davide Covone /

Vlada Shevchenko / Klaudia Skopintsev,

Suu Tanaka / Kristína Zemanová,

Terézia Fortunová / Sabina Masáriková / Sofia Arriaga-Heald

Anne Marie Grave Myhrvold / Anastasiia Kravtsova

Kostiantyn Lubko / Šimon Stariňák / Diana Zinchenko

Marcell Medvecz / Igor Pashko,

Tetiana Lubska / Miyu Kitabatake / Klaudia Skopintsev,

Kei Hirozane / Miyu Kitabatake,

Yevgenia Nikitina / Sofia Arriaga-Heald,

Veronika Vaňková / Anastasiia Kravtsova,

Alessandra Improta / Diana Zinchenko, Kristína Zemanová,

Elise Smith / Kristina Deinega

Group of shouting men:Marek Šarišský, Aleksandr Skopintsev, Šimon Stariňák, Peter Rolík, Dalibor Fábián, Martin Tujvel a.h., Peter Guzan a.h.,, Roland Kromka a.h., Juraj Jurko a.h., Vladimir Gladič a.h., Oleksii Potomkin a.h., Peter Raši a.h., Tomáš Hodermarský a.h.
Office under the roof:Viktor Mikulišin / Lukáš Nastišin, Marcell Medvecz / Aleksandr Skopintsev, Martin Bányai / Marcell Medvecz, Elise Smith / Veronika Vaňková / Yevgenia Nikitina, Ervín Szelepcsényi / Dalibor Fabián, Kostiantyn Lubko /Dalibor Fabián, Terézia Fortunová / Alessandra Improta / Iryna Ivaniv, Kei Hirozane / Miyu Kitabatake / Anne Marie Greve Myhrvold / Dmitro Chebotar