Get ready for a stage experience like no other — an intense, immersive retelling of A Clockwork Orange is coming to Prague this June.

It will be performed at Rock Café on June 13 and 15 at 19:00, this adaptation blends ballet, opera, and physical theatre with the dark, dystopian world of Anthony Burgess’s cult classic.

The result is an artistic collision between beauty and violence, refinement and raw brutality.

At the center of the story is Alex, a teenage gang leader whose descent into crime, incarceration, and state-sponsored reform forces the audience to confront uncomfortable questions about power, control, free will, and redemption.

This version of A Clockwork Orange isn’t just theatre — it’s a sensory assault. Expect Beethoven, “a bit of the old ultra-violence,” and a jarring mix of classical and contemporary forms, all brought to life by an international creative team.

Directed by Christopher Adamson, co-founder and artistic director of D’Prompt Theatre, the show features choreography by Jade Becker of the First International Ballet School in Prague, with vocal coaching by Sav Bea, founder of Sav Bea Academy.

The production is led by Gordon L. Schmitz and his collective, The Mad and Merry Men.

Schmitz believes the story’s relevance has never been greater.

“There’s a strange absence of political counterculture today — either it’s been mainstreamed or replaced with the idolisation of corporate power. But then something shocking happens — a CEO is assassinated in New York and the killer is hailed as a folk hero. We’re closer to this dystopia than we think,” he says.

First published in 1962, A Clockwork Orange has left a lasting mark on literature, cinema, and music.

Its themes — the fight between the individual and the state, the moral cost of control, and the question of whether true reform is possible — remain as relevant now as they were over 60 years ago.

Tickets available here

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