SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
City Theatre Brno - Mestske Divadlo Brno (Czech Republic)
Opening: 20.01.18
Book and Lyrics by Robert Stigwood & Bill Oakes
Music by The Bee Gees
Director: Stanislav Moša
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
Wild rhythms and rising fevers
... The grandiose stage by German set designer Christoph Weyers is dominated by an exact copy of the pillars of the famous bridge connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan. Nothing is missing. Not even the typical silver disco ball in the Odyssey dance club or the pulsating, colourful dance floor....
Lenka Kolegarová, Brněnský deník, 26.1.2018
This makes people want to dance disco...
...This musical in Brno has some definite strengths and clear messages. This especially includes the successful stage by Christoph Weyers, who framed the scenery with a huge construction of the bridge connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan. It is a junction of two worlds, a transition that symbolises the protagonist’s path to adulthood and at the same time provides a tragic backdrop for his friend’s suicide...
Luboš Mareček, www.mestohudby.cz, 26.1.2018
Saturday Night Fever - a chess dance party
...Christoph Weyers’ stage offers an industrial urban exterior and shows once again how well he knows how to use the staging options at the Brno City Theatre, whether it is the projection of the river reflection with waves, or the symbolism of the bridge piers, which represent a place of safety and fate in the lives of the young people. The flashing disco floor not only entices people to dance, but also represents a chessboard where the young people are challenged to play the tricky game of relationships. Not everyone will win...
Josef Meszáros, www.scena.cz,26.2.2018