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Uncompromising battles of thought expressed through physical poetry. The play Outcast, by the theatre collective Slzy Janka Borodáča, is based on Stefan Zweig’s memoir The World of Yesterday, in which Zweig portrays the image of old Europe and raises the crucial topic of pacifism, an issue still faced by today’s Europeans.

In the performance, actresses Gabriela Marcinková and Anna Jakab Rakovská create a diary of contemporary European women through their personal stories, which intertwine with Zweig’s historical testimony. The play opens themes such as generational legacy, clinical depression, reconciling with parenthood, judicial corruption after the loss of a loved one, considerations of emigration, and more.

The autobiographical material from Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday carries an important message for today’s world. As an Austrian, a Jew, a writer, a humanist, and a pacifist, Zweig lived through the violent upheavals of two world wars, and offers a testimony to what he described as “barbarism with a conscious and programmatic dogma of anti-humanism.”



“We consider it important to pay attention to his ideas and work, which name the specific circumstances that led humanity into such a terrifying loss of dignity and transformation of morality. If a person—or a nation—does not remember their past, they have no identity. This is one of the goals of our theatrical adaptation and staging of Zweig’s message, with which we want to preserve his ideas in the most intense physical-textual theatrical form and bring them closer to the audience.”
 

Author: J. Rázusová and collaborators, based on Stefan Zweig’s memoir The World of Yesterday
Dramaturgy: Dáša Čiripová, Marek Turošík
Director: Júlia Rázusová
Set and Costume Design: Diana Strauszová
Music: Martin Husovský
Choreographic Collaboration: Andrej Petrovič
Lighting Design: Lukáš Katuščák
Production: Linda Durkáčová

Cast: Gabriela Marcinková, Anna Jakab Rakovská

The Outcast production uses LP records containing personal, authentic voice recordings made by actress Anna Jakab Rakovská on a phone dictaphone during the years 2021–2022, when she was experiencing clinical depression. Portions of these recordings are featured in the performance. 

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