Theatre program in Prague - Highlights

Stoned novel by Boris Vian in the original stage of processing.

“There are only two things: love in all ways for girls and nice music. Everything else should go!” You’d like to fall in love. He would like to fall in love. I would like to fall in love. We would like. Would you want. they would also like. Everyone would like to love and not to work. – Translated by Google Translate

Pavel Liška, Adam Mišík, Sára Sandeva, Jan Komínek, Anna Kadeřávková

The prime impulse behind the origination of this work was the wish to create a feature–length music project for Soňa Červená. From the very outset, it was clear to us that we would focus on the fate of a distinct Czech woman. We soon arrived at the conclusion that we would be hard put to find a more significant, and in its sheer monstrosity more fascinating, theme than the one afforded by the communist show–trial of Dr Milada Horáková. At its beginning there was the endeavour of a totalitarian power to eliminate all non–communist heroes of the anti–fascist resistance; at the end gallows from which four people swung and a countless number of other fates devastated in the openly and spectacularly manipulated trial.

Price: 420 CZK Koupit lístky

“A wonderful, well-balanced piece of work, once again combining dance, theatre and music. Poetic, cinematic and funny” Utopia Parkway

32 rue Vandenbranden takes place in a windy, snow-covered landscape dotted with rundown shacks. These lonely heights are the home of a young couple, a pregnant girl and a wandering woman. Overcome by their fears, they drift around in their own isolation, the boundaries between dream and reality start to fade. We find ourselves in a small isolated community where the inhabitants are confronted with their own loneliness. The focus in this new creation lies on the internal forces that determine which turn the characters will take, their motives are being exposed and stripped of their consciousness. There’s a valley visible in the set, but the protagonists are never quite able to reach it and for one, an even worse fate awaits. Stravinsky, Bellini and Pink Floyd performed by mezzo-soprano Eurudike De Beul bring musical drama that transports you to a strange and intriguing world portrayed in cinematic style. Even if this play is about the psychological baggage that young people carry, humour is never far away and every moment is woven of incredible physical performance.

Seoljin Kim, Hun-Mok Jung, Marie Gyselbrecht, Jos Baker, Sabine Molenaar, Maria Carolina Vieira, Eurudike De Beul

„In The Journey it is hypnotic how Farm in the Cave brings specific emotions and experiences into their music and dance… into an intricate yet at the same time uninhibited picture of those overlooked peoples who live in rapidly vanishing cultures“
Joseph Fahim, Masress

The Journey gives the audience a chance to not only look inside different cultures, but also into the life of the ensemble. The members of Farm in the Cave share with us their 10 years of searching. Through video projections performers on stage encounter the people who gifted them with their stories, songs, rhythms and dance steps and have become part of their lives.

Hana Varadzinová, Eliška Vavříková, Róbert Nižník, Minh Hieu Nguyen, Roman Horák, Vít Halška, Anna Kršiaková, Jun Wan Kim

Saturnin is a known name in the Czech Republic already for several generations. Zdenek Jirotka, wrote this humorous novel during the war, in 1942. Since then, the book has had its release more than a decade, and its charm is becoming a new generation of readers. A young man of good social position and upbringing will, somewhat inadvertently, servant Saturnin. He becomes the de facto master of your employer and causes in his quiet life yet many surprising twists and situations. You would not give Saturnin difficult to master. Not one thing that without it probably never occurred.

Price: CZK 350 - 450 Buy tickets at official website

Vasil Fridrich, Jiří Hána, Jitka Smutná, Zuzana Norisová, Jaroslav Vlach, Vladimír Čech

Bathrooms part II: Beauty is a new performance that follows up on a series of visual-theatre performances in the bathrooms of private homes in the Czech Republic and France from 2009 to 2011. The creators of these experiments have continued to develop the project, performing it in spaces other than bathrooms. The first such attempt was the performance Bathrooms part I: Soap, with themes of private intimacy in the context of theatrical space. In the second part of the Bathrooms project, the Rybařvoucí group sets off to explore new approaches. It leads audiences directly into some of the private Holešovice flats behind the balconies we see around the Alfred ve dvoře Theatre – Alfred in the Courtyard.

Bathrooms are places connected fundamentally with hygiene and with beautification of the body. Thanks to the almost ubiquitous influence of the cosmetics industry the symbols of cleanliness and beauty today have become objects, items, products… For the creators of Bathrooms Part II, the starting point is fascination with this absurd world of illusion and stereotypes. The asthetics of the cosmetics industry are inspiration for a game in which items we use daily are given new meaning, function, or shape. A bathroom is a place for transformations of the body, and so the artistic team works deliberately with masks and costumes. They create a surreal world of unique visual images through the authenticity of real-life bathrooms, where beauty shows herself in many different guises and where the instructions on shampoo containers and packages of cosmetic wipes can be interpreted a thousand different ways.

The Rybařvoucí Group was founded in 2009. Its members are predominantly set designers who have decided to use collective devised creation in their work, with a focus on visual elements, work with material, performance and stylization of the resulting shape of their performances. The flagship performance of the Rybařvoucí group is the Bathrooms project in the Czech Republic and France.
Currently the group also runs a festival of alternative music called Listopadové kozelce (Praha – Litomyšl), and a symposium on music and land art by the railroad tracks called Lokálka (Vysoké Mýto – Litomyšl).
This performance is developed in Alfred ve Dvore within their residency program 2013. Supported also by Botanicus, Melitrade and Jika Bathrooms.

Barbora Šimková, Tereza Koníčková, Sofia Adamová, Aňa Šebelková, Anežka Kalivodová, Lucie Wildtová

The plot consists of a series of episodes, which combines high British policy environment with all the backstage intrigues and maneuvers. The situation, characters and relationships are so typical that the Czech audience can not omit the comic aspects of “so close to reality,” the Czech political scene. Perhaps that explains the significant success of the title already in the form of television, which brokered the Czech version of our master dubbing performed by Viktor Preiss and Francis Germans. Comedy Yes Minister was the directorial debut of Martin Stropnického who took the opportunity to combine my theatrical experience with ten years experience in diplomatic practice. – Translated by Google Translate

Price: CZK 240 - 390 Koupit lístky

Evening under the slogan “You can walk, you can dance” performed by the group of white doves Ostrava and Prague group Freedom4.

White Dove - Music and movement collage of human feelings and dreams, our struggles, of awe, humility, love for life and gratitude.

Angels among us - Angels are indeed among us sometimes occur … only to find them. Mosaic moods, feelings, situations that are commonly encountered. Each of us is somehow preserves, but in the end we find that in every piece of the good finds … bit of an angel … – Translated by Google Translate

Price: CZK 150 Koupit lístky

Son and father, vitality and time-tested physicality, transfer intimacy closest relationship to the stage. Telling the two bodies that represent reciprocity in its past and future. Life history of both performers and theater abstraction but are not limited mercy insidious disease. The project stems from a desire to understand the insurmountable limits as a new way of living, where even seemingly unimportant moments represent a major victory. The work was awarded Diorathe Dance Prize at the Netherlands Dansdagen 2012 in Maastricht.
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Price: CZK 190 – 290 Koupit lístky

An absurd comedy about Hugo getter fry Václav Havel wrote half a century ago. It was first mentioned in 1963 in the Theatre on the Balustrade, staged by two giants of Czech theater Otomar Krejča and John Grossmann. A year later he started his journey on the world’s stages. To this day remained current, live dangerously.

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Martin Pechlát, Alois Švehlík, Eva Salzmannová, Roman Zach, Johanna Tesařová, Petra Špalková, Jan Bidlas, Vladimír Javorský

Ostensibly a comic, but definitely grotesque and humorous story about how the writer namistrovaný Mojmir gradually forfeited the value chain, his wife, the second tens, or how Cinderella turns into a wolf and what women mean when women pisses standing. Playing a comic collision of two life-styles and ideas about how to look like a normal contemporary life. – Translated by Google Translate

Price: 390 - 490 CZK Koupit lístky

Filip Čapka, Petra Hřebíčková, Kristýna Frejová, Tomáš Pavelka, Gustav Řezníček, Réka Derzsi

Performers on stage embody forgotten experiences, which are themselves becoming. But what is the essence of memories at the moment of oblivion? Dance duet men and women deals with treachery memories, whose “truth” depends on the perspective view of the participants. Gentle dance tells the story of two lovers, ethereal beings spun from ancient longings of our dreams. Copyright music and audiovisual set complement and dance together to create complex artistic experience that a wide variety of contemporary aesthetics offers. – Translated by Google Translate

The two basic elements of the work – the ubiquitous music from the mixer and torn, wrinkled body dancer – are combined into one unit to create industrial space to work full direct light and darkness. Physicality in this project is presented as a robotic mechanism (not) responding to stimuli sonic waves. Endless struggle to acquire the balance of the body is a symbol of the human spirit urge not to bring down. Try to get up. And again. Until the end. Light and minimalist set design is an integral part of this experimental work, which attempts to limit conceivable forms of processing. – Translated by Google Translate

Duet for two dancers explores human behavior in different contexts and points to the vastness of requirements imposed on us by profession and place. Uncertainty caused by variations in social values ​​then constantly makes us doubt about the meaning of their own everyday life. On the one hand, we are motivated by the desire to achieve prestige, on the other hand limits us the fear of losing their own integrity. What does it mean to be a dancer? And I have it even when all the strength and skills disappear? Duet for Two Dancers was selected on the priority list of top 20 works of young choreographers in the European network Aerowaves for 2012. – Translated by Google Translate

Archa Theatre artistic team, headed by director Jane Svoboda prepared in Kostelec nad Orlicí original production Promised Land, which plugs into the creative process of city residents. The scene alongside professional artists will meet representatives of the local community – Czech denizens, Roma and asylum seekers from a refugee camp.

Kostelec nad Orlicí, a small town in eastern Bohemia, the filmmakers have not chosen accidentally production. This city can be seen as an intersection, bringing together people of different nationalities, religions and cultures. In addition to local denizens that there is a large Roma community and the people in the refugee camps that are a few years waiting for asylum.

"These three groups of people together but not too communicate. Therefore, we felt the desire to allow these communities met and we decided to do our theatrical means, "explains director Jana Svobodová.

If you think you can combine Czech and Iranian emigrant girl? How much different dreams Roma grandmothers and young refugees? And if the Czech Republic for Belarusians Promised Land? – Translated by Google Translate

Price: CZK 60 - 120 Koupit lístky

Dejvice Theatre Ucpanej system was based on the works of the famous Scottish writer Irvine Welsh’s Acid House. The abstract to the Czech edition of the book in 2008, stated that: “It is a Welshovu second book, full of pictures of social life scum, in which the author does not remain live up to its reputation, his lyrics again exploring the dark corners of the world and the soul. Narrator is representative Edinburgh street, whose speech is scary, full vulgarisms, siláckých sayings, slang phrases, distortions and patvarů, but definitely not dull and boring.'s because the humor contained in it, although a lot of black, cynical and brutal, but how else truthfully describe real life, which also does not belong to anyone? then the rule that no story does not end happy ending and that's never been so bad that it can not be worse. ” – Translated by Google Translate

Ivan Trojan, Václav Neužil, Miroslav Krobot, Martin Myšička, Martin Pechlát, Jaroslav Plesl, Hynek Čermák, Petr Vršek, Jana Holcová, Klára Melíšková, Lenka Krobotová

The presentation of the author and “Caveman defense,” he wrote on the stage itself says Rob Becker, is a humorous reflection on the differences between men and women and how these differences often cause misunderstandings. Performance for one actor fills to capacity audience of many theaters in the U.S. and Canada. – Translated by Google Translate

Price: CZK 200 - 390 Buy tickets at Ticketpro.cz

Jakub Slach

In the besieged city girl Iman Jesus cares for the cat, which a foreign soldier broke his paw when he jumped on the tank. Around explode bombs fall and houses, but no longer cares. Death is too mundane a word as God’s own or added as a term of abuse. – Translated by Google Translate

Price: 100 - 160 CZK Koupit lístky

Name autobiographical works Desh in Bengali means “homeland”. Body Akram Khan – subtle, but extremely charismatic dancer and choreographer – is becoming a place on the stage, where they will meet meanings of terms such as land, nation, resistance or fusion. Akram was based on the experiences and memories of trips between England and Bangladesh, countries that their differences to provoke a surreal experience. Intimate and epic at the same time so Desh presents the fragility of a man in the face of strength determination of the human spirit, which is often attempted in a rhythm of work, dreams, desire for renewal and survival. A brilliant artist sensitively and wisely exceeds his life story. The work clearly reflects the problems of the contemporary world that still desperately looking for understanding the phenomenon of transnationalism and identity as a global citizen. The full-length solo Akram joined their creative skills with visual artist Tim Yipee (Oscar winner for his film design), lighting designer Michael Hulls (Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist), writer and poet Karthika Nair and composer Jocelyn Pook. The actual work Desh was in 2012 awarded the prize Laurence Olivier – Best New Dance Production. – Translated by Google Translate

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Love story of a young man bored dullness and beautiful place to terrorists on the run from police families, but also from life. Quest show is conceived as an old film studio, which is dominated by car using rear projection. – Translated by Google Translate

Price: CZK 350 Koupit lístky

Tatiana Vilhelmová, Vojtěch Dyk

At the beginning it was a great friendship. A effort to refute the argument that female comic duo can not exist. The very essence of female nature does not allow a person to accept the fair sex, that would be stupid, deft or perhaps even uglier than the other. During testing, it was confirmed that this macho argument applies. For this reason, stopped along the main characters interact, forming a rather non-verbal performance about friendship, not only for its light, but also drawbacks to the dark side. In addition, 2D animation offers and ground acrobatics, dance, postýlkovou scene, crying, screaming, singing. These are the Belle of the Intercontinental. Arte et Marte.

Anna Polívková and Martha Issová: two actresses from different theatrical environment and close friends since childhood. The stage is encountered in several joint improvisations, which is inspired by the cooperation of a stronger form of theater, he founded the original performance Intercontinental Beauty. Animation film director and animator Michaela Pavlátová hold all the stage design and performance are the protagonists on stage active partner. Costumes created another duo friends-artists Anna Tušková and Radka Sirková, studio Chatty, with the aim of combining contemporary theater with contemporary fashion scene. – Translated by Google Translate

Balance of life. As it happens – bleak. Life in the dust. Endless interviews with parents, sisters, with myself. What is the meaning of life? What I lost on the way, what I came, took my others? Why is this so? What did I do wrong? Nothing and everything. What do I have left? Loneliness. And love. The memory of her. Painful, large, singular. Lost in the dust of stars.

Jana Boušková, Taťjana Medvecká, Petra Špalková, Jana Preissová, Jan Hartl

After a sold out season in Sydney, Australia, Opera House, where performance in just 8 days earned admission to an incredible $ 3,000,000, and the subsequent tour of the crowded halls, Australia, Asia and the Americas, bringing JV Agency this spectacular live magic show to the Czech Republic, which becomes one of the stops of the tour, which kicks off this summer in London. Meet The Illusionists! – Translated by Google Translate