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For centuries, we have been trying to make the world predictable and orderly, but in the times of climate change it is becoming more and more clear that life cannot be planned, controlled, or tamed. Moles are runing well-maintained golf courses, bark beetles are devouring monotonous spruce plantations, weeds are returning to the cracks of pavements, molds are sabotaging development projects, and orcas are attacking motorboats.
Rock mole cyanide is a theater performance created in collaboration between students of Alternative and Puppet theatre department of DAMU and the ResisTerra research team at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University.
The unpredictability, rebelliousness, and untamedness of non-human beings emerge in moments when things begin to unfold differently than humans originally intended. In the performance rock mole cyanide, we explore various forms of resistance by non-human beings who rebel against the anthropocentric system.
Based on our ethnographic research and texts by other anthropologists, we bring to the stage stories about a world in which safety, care, and the future are not exclusively human rights. We invite the audience to sit with the discomfort—to listen to voices other than human's and to imagine a world with greater solidarity between species.
Premiere 17 October 2025
Duration: 80 minutes
director, dramaturgy, set design: Tobiáš Nevřiva, Tereza Dostálová, Karol Filo
music: Lenka Adamcová
production: Sofie Šmídová
promotion: Anna Reisigová
photography and graphic design: Peter Podolský
illustrations: Dora Brázdovičová
cast: Vojtěch Bárta, Tereza Dostálová, Karol Filo, Sára Hájková, Anna Hradilková, Anna Mírková, Tobiáš Nevřiva, Petra Nováková, Robert Repka, Nela Štěpánková
Project was supported by AMU Environmental Panel.
