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Hra je součástí volného historického cyklu dramaturga a dramatika Tomáše Vůjtka - prvním dílem byla hra S nadějí, i bez ní, dalším je Smíření, které bude mít v Aréně premiéru v příští sezoně. Hlavní postavou Slyšení je bývalý nacistický pohlavár Adolf Eichmann, úřednický perfekcionista, který své schopnosti věnoval „konečnému řešení židovské otázky“.
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Hearing – The production won three Theatre Critics’ Awards (production, text, best actor) in 2015. The play forms part of a loose historical cycle by dramaturg and dramatist Tomáš Vůjtek, the first being the play With and Without Hope and the next Conciliation, which will be premiered in the Arena next season. The main character in Hearing is the former Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, a bureaucratic perfectionist who devoted his abilities to the “final solution to the Jewish question.” In Hearing Eichmann tries to defend himself and asks for a hearing in front of God – who does not seem to be coming. The career of a Nazi criminal who wants to tell God himself his own version of events is confronted with the fates of the Jews who were taken in 1939 to the camp at Nisko on the San, the destination of Eichmann’s first transports. The very first transport left Moravská Ostrava on 18 October 1939. As in the play With and Without Hope, Vůjtek uses black humour to reflect on this Nazi career, coming from the fact that the figures talk about their fates using an authentic lexicon that is in dramatic, and often sarcastically heightened, contrast with the terrible reality of the historical events. The author himself says: “I cannot imagine my writing without humour; these great themes, in particular, require it. Otherwise there is a threat that the testimony will slide into sentimental pathos. We can be moved by the suffering of the victims, but I believe it is more beneficial if we can manage to make fun of the evil that caused it. We may not save our world in doing so, but at least we will get to know it better. This cognitive function of humour I find essential.”
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