.boredom in Cambridge

.this day was special. I was for the first time in Narodni divadlo (national theatre) in Prague. Yes, that's true, after 6 years of study in this magnificent city I still haven't visited one of the most famous buildings.

The play was supposed to be interesting... It is named Rock'n'Roll and is talking about Prague's history during normalisation period (1968-1990). It was divided into many small fragments situated in turns in Prague and Cambridge. Yet it was not funny enough to be a comedy, nor thrilling enough to be a drama... And it was looooong (>3h). Probably the main problem was that author is British and that means, that he hasn't lived through any of these events (not that I had, to be honest, I was too young when "velvet revolution" took part to be a part of it). And in this case not even very decent performance by actors can uplift such piece into a quality production...
I think we should talk about this dark period of our history, but maybe satire and shallow dialogues about communism is not the best we can do. This way the people younger than me didn't understand at all what was going on on the stage, people much older probably thought it to be too provoking and attacking. I was quite disappointed by the chance that was not made use of...

Footnote: the music was good ;), all the rock giants from these times (Velvet Underground, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, etc.)...