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“The wonderful romance bewitched me when I was 15 years of age, and its imperceptible heroine would then visit my dreams,” so wrote Vítězslav Nezval about Abbé Prévost’s novel. The heroine’s name was Manon and owing to Nezval’s 1940 d­ramatisation we can now fret, love with passion and infinitely suffer again and again. The singular story of love, both devoted and inconstant, a story abounding in tense twists and the engrossing world of knights, will be brought to the National Theatre for the very first time, yet it has lost none of its forcibility and power.

Premiere 11.2. and 12.2. 2016

Approximate running time – 1 hour 35 minutes, no intermission

Language – In Czech

Venue info

National Theatre

Dress code

Theatre is a cultural institutution. Respect the common principles of appropriate behaviour and clothing.

It is obligatory to wear a face mask or other similar protection of the nose and mouth inside the theatre.
Spectators entrance, stay in the theatre and the subsequent exit is organized by the theatre staff in a special mode so that the visitors of the individual sectors are separated from each other and do not have to meet even in the areas of refreshments, restrooms or cloak rooms.

Thank you for respecting the government regulations and we look forward to seeing you.

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