Endemité: Stories of Disappearance

Endemité: Stories of Disappearance is a magical-realist sci-fi tragicomedy produced by A studio Rubín, which premiered on October 5, 2024. The text was created in an authorial dialogue between Dagmar Fričová and German author Matthias Naumann (art collective Futur II Konjunktiv) and has been adapted in both Czech and German versions. The production is directed by Lucie Ferenzová, with Jana Kozubková, Tereza Hof, and Halka Třešňáková on stage. The main narrative follows a twelve-year-old girl who flees her home into the forest for ecological-activist reasons. Through a peculiar conversation with her future grandchild, she discovers a radical way to force her parents to make real change. On the shore of a lake, a naked man emerges claiming to have calculated climate change two hundred years ago; a family goes skiing despite there being no snow; a tramp has a dialogue with a fish in German. An important layer is the intergenerational dialogue, where ancestors meet grandchildren and today's young people speak with their future descendants. The production uses live camera, video (Michal Kindernay), lighting design, and music by Gerard Lebik, ending with an installation without actors. Warning: the performance contains nudity. Tickets are unreserved (free seating). The box office is open only during the performance from 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM and accepts cash only.