Můra: A Little Light Still Remains

Where does darkness come from? From shadows? Does it creep silently from the forests toward human dwellings? Where does evil come from? Also from shadows? Does it, like darkness, steal from there toward human dwellings?

The production is based on true stories of three young people who grew up in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. It was created as a message from members of the theatre collective NIE, which has worked together for 25 years – at the time of the premiere of their first production The Long Way Home in August 2001, some of the current ensemble members had not yet been born.

In three stories, the collective draws on humour, alienation, character-driven acting, and live music as tools for opening up difficult topics.

The word "můra" has ancient roots: Slavs believed that Mory (later Můra) was a nocturnal creature – the spirit of the dead who found no rest and would sit on the chests of sleeping people at night to warn them of danger. The name itself comes from the Indo-European root mer- ("to press", "to rub"), which also appears in the English mare (hence nightmare) or Norwegian mareritt. In more recent interpretations, based on the Norse Saga of the Ynglings, it is women who first warned of danger and helped the community move toward a better future.

For viewers aged 14 and up.