The Golem Hides in the Shadows (play)

July 1883. Prague groans under the yoke of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the city, newspapers in Czech are banned. German professors teach at the university, and students are expelled for freethinking. The townspeople hate the police, sworn to loyalty to the Habsburgs, but they are not yet ready to rise against tyranny. Everyone remembers how brutally the previous Prague uprising was crushed. Every third person informs on their neighbor in order to take advantage of the chaos and steal someone else’s property. In the suburbs, as usual, they fear pogroms…

In this boiling cauldron, the fates of entire peoples—and individual people—are melted down together: a young pickpocket; an old alchemist; a potter who incites riots; a night porter from a luxurious hotel. A grumpy investigator with his own ideas about justice. And a Russian detective—an outsider—whose destiny brought him to Prague at the most inappropriate moment… or maybe at the most fitting one.

The streets of the city are uneasy: people are being murdered—every time exactly at midnight. In these horrifying crimes, the Golem is suspected—the clay giant from ancient legends. Will Marmeladov manage to stop the monster?

The production involved: Director: Dmitry Kreminsky. Editors: Olga Safonova, Amir Rashidov. Composer: Mikhail Antal. Sound engineers: Oleg Sulimov, Aleksandr Trukhan (studio “Vox Records”).