Reseñas (1)
Everything that is wrong about it is best proved by a long part in the middle of the performance (before the break), when during the sounds of Ryba music more than a dozen characters slowly roam the stage with candles in their hands, where they pretend to have a non-existent activity, and gradually step up to the apron to recite some completely empty phrases "like a Christmas touching memory of childhood" from the department "childhood and Christmas". Which is supposed to symbolize how Ryba´s work affects them. The teacher Ryba, performed by Lněnička, walks around them in a "serious manner" and he has nothing to do all the time, so he casts overwhelmingly understanding glances. All of this is topped by the character of Ryba´s father who briefly summarizes this torture (for sure the worst ever staging of theaters in Pardubice, complete waste of time) to the already mostly asleep audience. We must admit that the whole performance is not like that. But there are more such stating "great wisdom" scenes, or that mosaic of scenes from the undeniably interesting and contradictory life of Ryba built around them does not balance them. It is even more obvious when even these scenes are too (and unnecessarily) literal. What is over the edge is when the recording of the performance directed in a way that completely ignores the good old rule "if you direct the broadcast of the performance on a large stage, then, unlike a small stage, do not take focus on the details of actors", because it requires a different kind of acting and it looks amateur.
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