Amberville – Plush Gangsters

A family plush production

Mollisan Town is a city of plush toys. Plush babies are delivered to plush parents by Deliverers according to the List of Offspring; everyone attends the cathedral and plush representatives govern the city so that it cannot be more plush. But in the Amberville district there is the Monokowski Casino, owned by gangster Pigeon – and he discovers that his name is on the List of Death.

Pigeon wants to be crossed off. He entrusts this task to a former gang member, a plush Bear, who is threatened with the elimination of his beloved Bunny if he fails. Bear summons the old gang: Does the List of Death exist? Who writes it? Can a name be erased from it? Who else is written there? Time is running out – and Bear also has a twin, a bear named Teddy.

The production is based on the famous Swedish novel Amberville (2007, Czech edition 2012), whose author writes under a pseudonym and whose film adaptation is in preparation. The story is dark – plush toys act cruelly and cunningly, but they are also full of love, not plush love, but human love, because they think of themselves as people. One sometimes gets lost in this: is it a story of plush toys who act like humans, or humans who look like plush toys?