The Unveiling

Theatre | In English | Doors open 19:30h | Duration: 65 mins

Tickets 18€

At the door 20€

This particular play offers a disquieting answer to the question: How will we use our newfound freedom once it is granted?

The answer, unfortunately, mirrors the troubling reality faced by those who resort to acquiring material goods in an attempt to fill the ideological or spiritual void left by the oppressive regime they once endured.

In Unveiling, we encounter the weary Vanek, who has just been released from prison, still wearing his tattered clothes. He visits the apartment of his closest friends, Vera and Michael, for the first time as a free man. While one might expect the couple to ask about Vanek’s time in prison or his mental state, they are too absorbed in bragging about their newly renovated apartment and dictating what Vanek should do and acquire. In this dynamic, Vanek can barely manage to speak.

Thus, Unveiling starkly exposes the bleak reality of life devoid of purpose or principle, reduced to mere self-indulgence. It also illustrates the toll that both artists and dissidents pay for critically examining such a life, where society demands that the creative individual abandon their core values to fit in.

By Václav Havel, Translated by Jan Novak

Adapted and Directed by Beata Pilch

Featuring Samuel Allan, Aldo D'Ibaños, Dermot Flanagan and Lena Sakalla