Lanterns, restless feet, a boy with a glowing face.
Roland Schimmelpfennig: Road lanterns, children's singing… can you hear it too? Parents, a teacher, siblings, and children are standing by the church. A boy with a radiant expression on his face. Do you hear it? Like the sound of a car… driving through the city, it’s approaching. Some are kissing, some see a tropical rainforest. Some no longer see anything at all. That child is flying through the air. There is complete silence. Liberec audiences know one of the most performed contemporary German authors, Roland Schimmelpfennig (*1967), from the magical production of Arabian Night. His plays are distinguished by their uniquely poetic language. The Flying Child (2012) is the story of a profane accident caused by inattention and, at the same time, a great tragedy of antique proportions. The greatest misfortunes arrive unexpectedly, without knocking, just like that. Meanwhile, the lights of life, time, and the world flicker past our windows at breakneck speed without stopping, disappearing irretrievably into the distance. The intergenerational gap is currently widening so deeply that twenty-year-olds from "Generation Z" already find it difficult to understand today's thirty-year-olds, the so-called millennials. Furious technical progress accelerates the changes in the world and our perception. Eliáš Gaydečka is entering his final year of directing and dramaturgy studies at DAMU this year. Liberec audiences could see his adaptation of Jaroslav Rudiš's National Avenue at the WTF?! festival. His interest in film brought him to the theater: he has worked as a screenwriter, assistant director, and storyboard artist. His one-minute film was part of the film mosaic My Freedom for the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. He plays the piano, tunes into jazz, loves trips into nature, and leads summer camps for children. A theatrical start-up project by Bušení for emerging creative teams. This production is not suitable for audiences under thirteen years of age. It contains themes of the death of a child, profanity, sex, and cigarette smoking.