BLOOD BOOK

"I want to know how we ended up with that crap running through our veins."

Grandma has legs like a man, geraniums everywhere, and a memory full of holes. Luckily, she doesn’t concern herself with my gender. Mom is constantly cold and tries to piece together the female line of our family tree (all the way back to the 14th century, wow!). My mother tongue is speaking. My father tongue is silence. And my own language is languages and my languages drip, trickle, merge, flow, take root, stream.

But how do you speak this free, self-made language about inherited shame, the source of constant fear and (self-)restriction? How do you overcome the clatter of "binary fascism," throw out all the skeletons in the closet, and escape the haunted garden of your childhood without betraying those closest to you? Less patriarchy and more witches? How do we fill that space inside us and between us? Hardcore stuff…

For their debut novel Blood Book, Kim de l’Horizon received both the German Book Prize and the Swiss Book Prize in 2022. In an ironic yet empathetic flow of speech, images, and rhythm, long-buried family stories collide with a turbulent present, revealing themes of identity, gender, collective and personal trauma, where the right to self-determination meets the need for belonging.

PREMIERE 31 January 2026
THE PERFORMANCE IS 115 minutes LONG.

TRIGGER WARNING
Sex and sexual violence.
The production uses smoke and strobe effects. And dick pics.

DISCUSSION 8 April 2026
Following the performance on 8 April, a discussion titled Nonbinary Czech Culture will take place in collaboration with the queer magazine (https://www.qult.cz/)] Qult .

STARRING Lucie Roznětínská, Vojtěch Hrabák, Hynek Chmelař, Matěj Šíma

TRANSLATION Jana van Luxemburg
ADAPTATION Štěpán Gajdoš, Ondřej Novotný
DIRECTION Štěpán Gajdoš
DRAMATURGY Ondřej Novotný
SET & COSTUMES Natálie Rajnišová
LIVE MUSIC Vojta Líba
ANIMATION Natálie Portíková
MOVEMENT SUPERVISION Peter Šavel
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Tereza Farkašová
ASSISTANT DRAMATURG Roberta Chrťanská
PHOTO Patrik Borecký