Can we believe in beasts today? HaDivadlo processes French prose about the relationship between man and nature

Autobiography of a French anthropologist Nastassja Martin with name Believe in beasts will see its theatrical adaptation in Brno HaTheater. Staging team headed by a Slovak alternative theater director Júlia Rázusová and dramaturg Anna Prstková will present themes of the gap between the wild landscape and Western civilization as well as coping with personal trauma in the context of the current geopolitical situation. The premiere will take place on Tuesday May 7, 2024.

August 2015. Kamchatka. Anthropologist Nastassja Martin is attacked by a bear during a research trip. He survives the attack with a severe jaw injury. The injured bear, which she hit with the ax, runs back into the wild. Actresses from the HaDivadl ensemble will be seen in the production Believe in Beasts Magdalena Kuntová, Magdalena Strakova and Simona Pekova and actors Jáchym Sůra and Jiří Miroslav Valůšek. “Nastassja, played by Magdalena Straková and Magdalena Kuntová, not only goes through the healing process of the wound she received from the fight with the bear. He also copes with the contradictions within himself and negotiates with the surrounding world about his position in it,” explains the dramaturg Anna Prstková.