A Winter Funeral

Chanoch Levin

A Winter Funeral

Drama

Magical comedy about unconventional wedding preparations

The new SND building, Studio

Schedule of performances

Thursday 31. 10. 2024
19:00 h 21:30 h
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Sunday 24. 11. 2024
19:00 h 21:30 h
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Sunday 19. 1. 2025
19:00 h 21:30 h
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Poetic farce by the iconic Israeli writer Chanoch Levin has the most rewarding vantage point. A family is planning a wedding and a funeral. Yet the two cannot be held simultaneously. Four hundred guests are invited to the wedding, where eight hundred chickens are to be served. Should the wedding be cancelled just because an aunt died and her son promised her, on her death bed, that the entire family would come to part with her? Thus, colourful and accidental pedestrians or rather runners – intellectuals start emerging in the colourful story. For we all are more interconnected than we think: with each other and with miracles that are beyond us. Hence, the second part of the fantasy farce takes us flying over the Himalayas. Along with minute ordinary people we meet the angels of life and death. Wedding and funeral are metaphorical milestones of our pilgrimages, no matter how much we keep on resisting them. Nonetheless, at least one of them is impossible to sidestep. Yet even that doesn’t necessarily have to happen without laughter.

Chanoch Levin was a brilliant poet, writer, journalist. Nonetheless, first and foremost he was unique and inimitable as playwright and theatre maker.

By the time his condition catapulted him (in 1999) from his small world, he managed to write sixty-three plays. Sixty-three bitter comedies or funny tragedies that prided themselves with all colours of laughter – from a sad smile to roaring laughter of spectators worldwide.

The copyright of the play is protected.
 
The holder of the rights is The Institute of Israeli Drama. The rights for the SND production are represented by Aura- Pont s.r.o., Czech Republic

Running time: 2 hrs 30 mins with one interval

Première March 29, 2019
 
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Production Team

Translation Silvia Singerová
Stage Director Ondrej Spišák
Stage Design František Lipták
Costumes Design Katarína Hollá

Cast

Lachek Bobichek Ľuboš Kostelný
Alte, his mother Zuzana Kocúriková
Shratsia, Bobichek’s Aunt Gabriela Dzuríková
Rashes, her husband Jozef Vajda
Popochenko, their son - groom Adam Jančina (as a guest)
Velvecia, their daughter-in-law AnnaMária Janeková (as a guest) Mária Schumerová (as a guest)
Tsitskeva, the groom’s mother Jana Oľhová
Baraguntsele, her husband Ivan Vojtek
Professor Kipernay, bachelor Martin Huba
Rosenzweig, ageing jogger Vít Bednárik (as a guest)
Lichtenstein, ageing jogger Štefan Bučko
Angel Samuelov, the Angel of Death Ján Gallovič
Šachmandrina, Buddhist monk Jakub Rybárik
Pšošicia, pretty, smiling girl Sára Polyáková (as a guest) Anna Dysko (as a guest) Ivana Kološová (Student, Academy of Performing Arts)
Wedding guests, waiters, gravediggers, monks Erik Žibek (as a guest) Peter Kiss (as a guest) Martin Zachar (as a guest)