With Pydl at Your Back

A simple folk trickster character who gets entangled in a power game becomes the vehicle for Josef Dvořák to perform a series of clown acts.

"...This constant effort to pretend, always playing the role demanded in the moment, extracting something for oneself from every situation, that unprincipled opportunism, the drive to create an illusion of idyll even amid ruins at any cost... isn't all this rather familiar to us?"