Czech on the path to extinct languages? / Lída Engelová

A humorous evening about our mother tongue through the eyes and ears of a charmingly stubborn director, a surprised actor, and a musician



Czech on the path to extinct languages?

Martin Myšička • Lída Engelová • Zdeněk Zdeněk

dramaturgie Johana Kudláčková scéna Ivo Žídek kostýmy Barbara Horáková Fehérová hudba Zdeněk Zdeněk
directed by Lída Engelová

PREMIERE 29.01.2026
RUNNING TIME 2 hours, including an interval

People speak as their mouth was made to talk. Usually in their mother tongue, which should babble, caress, and thunder – to express thoughts and feelings as vividly and clearly as possible! A handful of obsessed writers, like Karel Čapek or Pavel Eisner, tried to warn against the decline of Czech, with the clear-sighted understanding that language expresses the soul of a nation – it is how even small nations project themselves into the cosmos. And into eternity!
We try to subtly pass on our own passion for the beauty of Czech to you, the audience, in a playful, humorous, and above all concise form – to delight you, and perhaps even make you laugh.