Josef Svoboda – Robert Wilson, Museum Kampa. 14 November – 6 February
The late Prague autumn and winter present a wonderful opportunity to encounter the world of Robert Wilson. This is the time when The Makropulos Case - a new stage work by Wilson - will be running at the Prague National Theatre (Národní Divadlo), or, to be more precise, at its Estates Theatre (Stavovské Divadlo) building, and two shows - Robert Wilson's video portraits and an exhibition that explores the dramatic power of light, visual illusions and corporeity in the works by Robert Wilson and the great Czech set designer Josef Svoboda - will be on show at Museum Kampa and the Jiří Švestka Gallery respectively.
This is the third time that Robert Wilson, an icon of the American avant-garde, is creating his weird and wonderful instantly recognisable world at the National Theatre. His two opera productions of Fate (Osud) and Káťa Kabanová by the great Czech composer Leoš Janáček is now followed by the Maestro's take on Karel Čapek's The Makropulos Case. Incidentally, the philosophically dramatic text of said fantastic comedy was also used by Leoš Janáček as the fundament of an identically titled opera; this time, Wilson is actually working with Čapek's literary material; the musical score was written by Aleš Březina.
Makropulos is a doctor who, on the Emperor's orders, has created a drink that adds 300 years to a man's normal life-span. And there is someone around who has already sampled the elixir - the perfect material for a stage director whose productions always unfold within a temporal dimension of their own, unrelated to the course of time outside the theatre walls. And Robert Wilson has always taken great interest in the things we cannot see.
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