Africa
Directed by Ladislav Smoljak
The fourteenth Cimrman play takes us to the heart of a continent almost untouched by civilization. Czech travelers encounter a strange tribe of cannibals and almost end up on their menu. The members of this tribe are unusual in two ways: their appearance and their extraordinary docility. These characteristics enabled Cimrman to solve linguistic and staging problems with an elegance that other world playwrights can only envy. If, say, G. B. Shaw had tackled such a theme, the audience would have spent 5 to 7 hours in the auditorium. Cimrman managed to do it in just one hour (not counting the introductory scientific seminar). For the first time in the history of the Jára Cimrman Theater, a live animal appears on stage.
Duration
1h 36m
Released
October 5, 2002
Cast7
Part ofThe Divadlo Járy Cimrmana (kolekce)
Includes Lijavec (1997), Posel z Liptákova (1997), Blaník (1997), Czech Heaven (2008), Murder in a Parlor Car Compartment (1997), Long, Broad and Nearsight (2007), The Stand In (1997), 40 let Divadla Járy Cimrmana aneb Ze hry do hry (2007), Dissolved and Effused (1985), Psaní do nebe (2017), Africa (2002), The Nude (1998), Cimrman in the World of Music (2006), The Conquest of the North Pole (1985), Pub in the Glade (1997), Dumb Bobes, or Czech Tarzan (1997), Plum Tree (1997), and Investigation of the Loss of a Class Book (1998).
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