Russian author Maxim Gorki wrote ‘Children of the Sun’ in 1905, the year of the first Russian revolution. The threat of political chaos is a palpable theme in his unexpectedly funny look at intellectuals who are isolated from the wider world.
The story follows a brilliant but out-of-touch scientist obsessed with discovering the ‘new man’ who will populate his imagined utopia.
With the help of his wife and their friends, he spends hours discussing this better world while the real world outside falls apart. While a cholera epidemic fans the flames of rebellion, these intellectuals close their eyes to grim reality… until it explodes.
Ivo van Hove’s direction of top actors from Toneelgroup Amsterdam and NTGent works as a reflection on the responsibility of intellectuals in contemporary society, demonstrating that the questions posed by Gorki are as relevant today as they ever were.
(Mark Smith, stage editor Time Out Amsterdam)
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