BEST Divadlo will bring Theresa Rebeck’s Sunday on the Rocks (1996) to Brno for the first time. The show, a realistic drama covering touching on many important modern discussions related to gender, freedom, and morality, will premiere at 7pm on 5 October at Labyrint (Švermova 19), with two further dates on 12 and 19 October.
Set in the late 90s, four women share an apartment in a story that mainly revolves around Elly, who finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and deals with the news by opening a bottle of scotch. Her flatmates keep her company and what follows is a chaotic day of personal confessions, contemplations on the morality of abortion, and a variety of topics that uncover the tensions between them and Jessica, a rather conservative character that holds a contrary vision of sex.
Natálie Rivolová and Rebeka Hrubšová are co-directing this realistic drama, a product of its time whose complex characters could easily be commenting on the current open discussions about issues like co-living, freedom and womanhood.
After BEST (‘Brno English-Speaking Theatre’) tried unsuccessfully to stage this show twice during the COVID-19 pandemic – first in 2020 and again in 2021 – the show will premiere at 7pm on 5 October in Labyrint (Švermova 19), with two further dates on 12 and 19 October.
