Baron Münchhausen

The multimedia production Baron Münchhausen combines film projections with a comic and large-scale puppets. Live music is an essential component of the production as background to the artists’ performance.

In the near future, somewhere in the middle of Europe, there is a land where not only lies, but all things imagined are forbidden under strict penalty, including fables and imagination. Because they challenge the given, measurable facts verifiable by reason, undermine the ruling power and, in an apparent paradox, point too clearly to the very essence of things, the truth. Such audacity must be punished.

And still, in this land was born a boy whom history would know as Baron Münchhausen; to this land he has returned from his long travels, and here he opens a trunk full of books where writes about his adventures. Though – or perhaps thanks to – not uttering a word, he narrates his stories and fables in evocative images, whether he dances the tango with an angry bull, rescues a flying ray from intrusive fishermen, sails alone the unfathomable ocean depths, or engages in a silent dialogue with his loyal friend the raven. 

The Baron’s captivating stories catch the attention of a little girl, who seems to understand him far better than adults. Few accept the Baron and appreciate their friendship. To make matters worse, the girl’s mother, worried, brings the Baron to court. He is called to defend his stories and prove their accuracy before a strict chamber where the mother sits as a judge. But how can one defend their case before a court unwilling to listen? And how is fantasy to be judged in the first place? 

• Theme, script, stage direction: Miřenka Čechová, Petr Boháč
• Approximate running time: 1 hour 55 minutes, 1 intermission (20 minutes)
• Language: In Czech, surtitles in English
• Recommended age: 7+

Premiere: April 9, 2026

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