Too Loud A Solitude

Genevieve Anderson, Director
Commissioned for Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Dreams

Based on the beloved novella by Bohumil Hrabal, and containing all the magic still present in the twisted streets of Old Town Prague, Too Loud A Solitude spins a tale of passion, beauty and high moral stakes in the midst of a crumbling civilization. Hanta, our main character, is a simple, beer-guzzling book crusher who from the outside appears filthy and reclusive. We learn, however, that he is brimming with inspired dreams of beauty, all culled from the magic words found in the books he rescues from destruction. With all his encounters with buxom gypsies and hallucinated visits from famous philosophers, Hanta recounts an idyllic past full of love affairs and tragedies while having to confront an oppressive and soulless present that forces him down into the rat-infested sewers to search for a place where his dreams of beauty might still exist.

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