Figaro gets divorced

"The comedy Figaro Gets Divorced begins a few years after Beaumarchais' Marriage of Figaro. Nevertheless, I have taken the liberty of setting the play in our time, because the problems of revolution and emigration are, firstly, timeless and, secondly, particularly topical in our time. The revolution that takes place in this comedy simply means any revolution, because every violent upheaval can be reduced to the same denominator in its relationship to the concept that we respect and disregard as humanity."

This is how Horváth himself describes his play, which premiered in 1937, about geographical and human wanderings and the timeless question of what "the" revolution actually is. The internationally sought-after, award-winning Croatian director Anica Tomić, in collaboration with the author Jelena Kovačić, specializes in rewrites and reworkings of classic works. Based on Horváth's text and the central figure of Figaro, the two artists reflect on whether we are not all part of a revolution and don't even want to admit it? Does it always have to be the case that "servants" want to become "masters" and others cling in vain to old greatness and traditions? Do the world and the human mind need revolutions for change to happen? In Horváth's rarely performed play about solidarity and its human facets in a breaking world, all the characters are in search of places they will never reach. And this is how it could begin: Once upon a time in a forest in Europe ..