Adapted on stage by Tamara Török based on Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead

Howard Roark and Peter Keating. Two architects, once university classmates, who choose very different paths to success. Roark, with his innovative ideas and eccentric nature, is in constant conflict with his surroundings—both as a person and as an architect—regularly shocking the world. In contrast, the smooth-talking Keating builds an impressive career largely by living off Roark’s ideas. Alongside them, we find a once-renowned star architect now pushed into the background, a well-positioned architecture firm director and his daughter, a powerful journalist, a ruthless media tycoon, and the friends and enemies of power—figures all too familiar from public life. Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel speaks to us most of all about the possibilities of freedom, professional advancement and individual happiness; about opportunism and existential fears; about the struggle between talent and mediocrity; the mechanisms of unchecked power; the phenomenon of unbridled wealth; and the sharp opposition between the individual and society, the creative person and authority.

The performance is not recommended for people under 16.

The performance uses strong sound effects.

The film scenes of the performance were inspired by King Vidor’s movie from 1949 called The Fountainhead.