Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Selfishness, buck-passing, calculating, inability to accept responsibility for one’s own failures or the pain of another. These and many other qualities are associated with the main characters of American novelist David Foster Wallace’s (1962-2008) short story collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.
The 1999 book inspired directors Kristýna Jankovcová and Adam Svozil to make two adaptations of the same name. The first of them, a theatrical one, focusing on the theme of therapy, premiered in 2019 at Divadlo Na zábradlí. In the second one, the authors decided to use the form of a staged radio documentary.
Listen the Drama at the Prix Bohemia Radio festival!
When: Wednesday 12th October 2022 | 14:00 – 15:20
Where: Film hall, Arts Centre UP
Entrance: Free admission with accreditation
Look at the detailed program of the listening session.
Cast: Dokumentarist (Jiří Konvalinka), Anna – Luisa (Barbora Bočková), Kouč (Petr Jeništa), M1 (Lukáš Černoch), M2 (Ivan Lupták), Eric Yang (Miloslav König), Terapeut (Jakub Žáček), Šošana (Kateřina Císařová), Client (Václav Vašák), X1 (Štěpán Lustyk), X2 (Vojtěch Vodochodský), Max (Michal Bednář) and Robert Mikluš and Lucia Čižinská
Dramaturgy: Lenka Veverková
Director: Adam Svozil, Kristýna Jankovcová
Premiere: January 12 2021
