An Hour of Ugliness

one of them will die.
one of them will die, and they will eat her.
one of them will die, and they will eat her because
one of them will die, and they will eat her because they were hungry, because so that
there is no other way

A scenic actualisation of collective memory. The sacred bastard that controls our lives is purely hereditary and traditional. An Hour of Ugliness is a strongly visual and associative composition — a movement theatre piece that works with text as a physical material.

The production is based on selected passages from The Satyricon, Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, Borges’s The Lottery in Babylon, and texts by Jiří Kolář and Pavel Kohout. Against the background of verbal sediment, words and performers alike become part of a chain of physical transmission of a message they co-create.

Found objects and folk speech are intertwined within a single network. An hour that brings into presence the memory of objects left behind by customs and superstitions.