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Can we be who we want to be?

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To shine in the spotlight, or muddle along? To set your own course, or talk someone else’s talk? To live your dream, or face daily reality? And where does reality start and where does it end? 

Five characters of this intimate story try to form the world around them and find their own unmistakable spots in it. An author is trying to write a perfect play, a bargirl wants to become a singer and an artist longs for recognition and fame.

One Must Live is an expression of resistance but also hope that we are able to control our destiny. Where can the struggle to live our own story get us?

 

One Must Live is inspired by leitmotifs from the works of Karel Čapek and Daniel Kehlmann. It is set against the stage design of a small town by the immersive theatre company Pomezí. This fictional environment is greatly enhanced by visual effects that open the illusion of a world on the borderland (“pomezí”) where a border between tangible space and fiction crumbles. The project thus stands on the border between theatre and film.