Samanta Schweblin: Fever Dream

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"And now I have something extra in my body, something new is turning on or off, something sharp and bright."

Dusty roads, a broken fence, empty horse paddocks, scorching heat, and lush green horizons planted with soybeans. "We're in the countryside here, Amanda. Every now and then someone drops out, and even if they make it, they're still weird afterward." An Argentine province a few hundred kilometers from the capital is the setting for the first meeting between Amanda, who is fleeing the city with her daughter to the tranquility of the suburbs, and Carla, a quirky and beautiful woman, mother of the strange and mysterious David. A boy who plays strange games in the garden, who constantly repeats his "It's not important," and who now stands too close to Amanda, lying on the verge of exhaustion, trying to help her. Or is he?

In her 2014 novella Out of Reach, Samanta Schweblin uses uncompromising storytelling to delve into the exhausting and often destructive relationship between mother and child. The constant transformation of fear into joy and vice versa, the anxious measuring of the safe distance that must be quickly overcome if something goes wrong, or the simple burden of not understanding one's own child are themes that the author serves up against the backdrop of a barren and remote landscape. A landscape so exhausted that the bonds between people and the bonds with nature cease to function. The safety distance, as the original title of the text suggests, is also a metaphor for the thread that barely holds the world as we know it together.

Samanta Schweblin: Fever Dream 

translation: Dita Aguilera Grubnerová
dramatization: Tomáš Soldán and Tomáš Loužný
director: Tomáš Loužný
dramaturgy: Tomáš Soldán
music: MD:RD
scene and costumes: Klára Lustyk
lightdesign: Miriam Čandíková
production: Magda Juránková
photos: Andrea Černá 

cast: Gabriela Pyšná, Dana Marková, Anežka Šťastná

Opening: 14 April 2026 in MeetFactory Theatre 

April performances are in Czech only, without English subtitles. 

Admission:
350 CZK
250 CZK for students and permanent residents of Prague 5

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