Endemites: Stories of Disappearance

Endemites: Stories of Disappearance is a theatrical production directed by Lucie Ferenzová, which premiered on 5 October 2024 at A Studio Rubín. The text was written jointly by Dagmar Fričová and German author Matthias Naumann (artistic group Futur II Konjunktiv) — two distinct staging versions were created, a Czech one in Prague and a German one at Berlin's Theater unterm Dach. The production draws on stories of endemic animals and plants, organisms bound to a single place, and transfers this principle to people and their ways of life: a vanishing cable-car operator, a tramp, a girl fleeing into the forest. On the shore of a lake emerges a naked man claiming he calculated climate change two hundred years ago; a family goes skiing despite there being no snow; a tramp conducts a dialogue with a fish in German. The production emphasizes intergenerational dialogue with a magical dimension — great-grandparents meet grandchildren, and today's youth speak with future descendants. Starring Jana Kozubková, Tereza Hof and Halka Třešňáková. The production was created as a co-production of A Studio Rubín, Kolonie z.s. and Futur II Konjunktiv with support from the Czech-German Fund for the Future, the State Fund for Culture and the Goethe-Institut. Note: the performance contains nudity; photography and recording are not permitted.