Irvine Welsh: Marabou Stork Nightmares

Roy Strang is in a coma. With no means to communicate with the outside world, he sinks deeper and deeper down inside himself. His dreams are as adventurous as hunting wild game in Africa and as uneasy as the life of an innocent boy in the jungle of an Edinburgh suburb. Above all the surreal visions, however, the reality of the disturbing events of his recent past, full of violence, frustration, bullying and, above all, deep guilt, emerges more and more clearly.

Marabou Stork Nightmares, one of Irvin Welsh's lesser-known and yet darkest and most complex works, raises both disturbing and tricky questions through his typically rough but exploratory language. What forms can the carousel of cruelty take in a world whose main law is the law of might makes right, where passionate brutality is the only source of excitement and there is no place for such things as humanity or forgiveness.

The Marabou stork is an ugly, insidious and monstrous bird of prey, feeding mainly on flamingos. It does not hesitate to devour eggs or chicks, and resorts to unimaginably bestial tactics in its hunting and treatment of its prey. And humans? What can be said of them?

Irvine Welsh: Marabou Stork Nightmares

Adapted by Lenka Veverkova
Directed by Tomáš Ráliš
Set design: Jakub Peruth
Costumes: Anna Havelková
Video Projection: Zuzana Štěpančíková
Music: Tomáš Dalecký and Tomáš Ráliš
Dramaturgy: Matěj Samec
Production: Magda Juránková

Cast: Michal Lurie, Jan Hájek, Dan Kranich, Romana Widenková

Andrea Černá
Opening night: 26 October 2024 at the MeetFactory Theatre

By arrangement with The Random House Group Limited, a Penguin Random House company

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