MAIN PROGRAM - Festival Divadlo

MAIN PROGRAM 12. září / 12h September 16:00 Komorní divadlo / Chamber Theatre Karel Václav Rais: KALIBA’S CRIME (directed by J. A. Pitínský); SLOVÁCKÉ DIVADLO / SLOVÁCKO THEATRE, UHERSKÉ HRADIŠTĚ Leading Czech director J. A Pitínský once again stages a Czech classic. The hard-hitng story of a man whose marriage to a much younger, calculatng wife and the subsequent intrigues of his mother-in-law result in tragedy. In Pitnský’s hands this excitng story of family relatonships becomes a dynamic drama with elements of folklore and, remarkably, references to the approaches of traditonal Asian theatre. The actors of the Slovácko Theatre deal remarkably with this difficult challenge. Performance length: 160 min. 19:30 Velké divadlo / Grand Theatre A. P. Čechov: IVANOV (directed by Tamás Ascher); JÓZSEF KATONA THEATRE (HU)

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The József Katona Theatre’s most famous producton of the last decade, and one which has played at many top festvals over several contnents. Tamás Ascher, a director recognised on a European scale, above all for his interpretatons of Chekhov’s plays, makes use of the company’s masterful actng, sensibility and energy, and presents Ivanov as a precise choreography of strong feelings and passions. Performance length: 180 min. 13. září / 13th September 11:00 Divadlo Alfa / Alfa Theatre Shakespeare, Tomáš Jarkovský, Jakub Vašíček: HAMLETEEN (directed by Jakub Vašíček); DIVADLO ALFA / ALFA THEATRE, PILSEN (Host theatre production) Hamlet, rewriten for teenagers. Hamlet’s father used to be fonder of scoutng than his wife Gertrude. Hamlet, as a teenager, oscillates between the worlds of scoutng, punk and emo. Claudius is good-humoured and rotund, Gertrude a jaded sceptc, Laertes is gay and Ophelia forthright… The producton makes use of excerpts from Shakespeare’s tragedy. Performance length: 95 min. 15:00 and 19:00 Komorní divadlo – klub / Chamber Theatre – club Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: ENIGMATIC VARIATIONS (directed by Jan Burian) DIVADLO J. K. TYLA, PLZEŇ / J. K. TYL THEATRE, PILSEN (Host theatre production) The J. K. Tyl Theatre’s clubroom theatre presents an excellent work by a contemporary author, captvatng in its immediacy, mystery and unexpected twists, its sensitve directon and exceptonal performances by both protagonists. Performance length: 80 min. 19:00 Komorní divadlo / Chamber Theatre Zachar Prilepin - Kirill Serebrennikov: OTMOROZKI / SCUMBAGS (directed by Kirill Serebrennikov); THE SEVENTH STUDIO, MOSCOW (RU) „Otmorozhki”, or scumbags, is the term used in the novel by Zakhar Prilepin – one of Russia’s most celebrated contemporary novelists – to designate young people who were born during the collapse of the Soviet Union, grew up in the lawless, criminal 1990s and are now going out into the the streets to fght for justce. They meet for the frst tme with love, betrayal and death. Kirill Serebrennikov’s producton this year won Russia’s highest theatre award, the Golden Mask. Performance length: 120 min. 14. září / 14th September 11:00 and 16:00 Komorní divadlo – klub / Chamber Theatre – club Vít Peřina: BUDULÍNEK (directed by Michaela Homolová); NAIVNÍ DIVADLO LIBEREC / NAIVE THEATRE LIBEREC This well-known cautonary Czech fairy tale is given a somewhat ironic twist: the grandfather and grandmother who urge their grandson Budulínek to be obedient and cautous are old, hard-of-hearing rockers, and in the end their urgent lesson turns against them. The “wooden” people and animals are depicted with artstc elegance, while the grandparents’ puppeteers (Michaela and Filip Homola) show mastery of both their puppets and the music. Performance length: 45 min.

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14. září / 14th September 14:00 and 18:00 – nádraží Plzeň Jižní předměstí / Moving Staton Venedikt Jerofejev: MOSCOW → PETUSHKI ( directed by Tomáš Jirman); NÁRODNÍ DIVADLO MORAVSKOSLEZSKÉ, OSTRAVA / NATIONAL MORAVIAN-SILESIAN THEATRE, OSTRAVA The Russian “alcoholic’s bible” in which leading actors from Ostrava’s “Natonal” theatre evoke a delirious whirlwind in a supremely relaxed manner. In additon to being heavily dependent on alcohol, the characters also nurse dreams that they will unfortunately never be able to realise. Performance length: 95 min. 16:30 Komorní divadlo / Chamber Theatre Irvine Welsh: A BLOCKAGE IN THE SYSTEM (directed by Michal Vajdička); DEJVICKÉ DIVADLO, PRAHA / DEJVICE THEATRE, PRAGUE A pub story full of vulgarisms, slang, swagger and garblings, which explain, among other things, why God sits on the bench. It features excellent team playing by the Dejvice Theatre, superb directon by talented Slovak director Vajdička and irrepressible humour – black, cynical and brutal, maybe, but how else do you describe, in truthful terms, real life which takes no prisoners? Performance length: 150 min. 20:00 Velké divadlo / Grand Theatre Jeroen Brouwers: SUNKEN RED (directed by Guy Cassiers), with Dirk Roofthooft; Produced by TONEELHUIS (BE) & RO THEATER (NL) Guy Cassiers discovers new theatrical paths in a combinaton of several types of special project, which in the monodrama Sunken Red form the background to Dirk Roofthooft’s superb performance. The script is based on Jeroen Brouwers’ famous Dutch novel, in which the hero remembers how he and his mother were interned during the war in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. Performance length: 110 min. 15. září / 15th September 11:00 Velké divadlo / Grand Theatre Philip Glass: IN THE PENAL COLONY (directed by Viktorie Čermáková, conductor: Petr Kofroň); DIVADLO J. K. TYLA, PLZEŇ / J. K. TYL THEATRE, PILSEN (Host theatre production) Philip Glass's chamber opera explores the circumstances of a condemned man awaitng executon. The Officer believes in upholding the old methods of torture and killing; the Visitor is appalled by what he sees but unable to intervene as the inevitable occurs. Libreto writen by Rudolph Wurlitzer based on short story by Franz Kafka. In The Penal Colony is writen for two singers and a string quintet. Performance length: 80 min. 14:00 and 20:00 Sál Peklo / Peklo Hall Ingmar Bergman: CRIES AND WHISPERS (directed by Andrei Şerban); THE HUNGARIAN THEATRE OF CLUJ (RO) Famous Romanian director Andrei Ṣerban, inspired by Bergman’s flm, stages a producton in which he tries to capture the relatonship between theatre, flm and reality, as well as the mystery of the creaton of one of the key works of twenteth century flm history. In doing so he leaves intact the subtlety and dramatc force of the story of four women – the dying Agnes, her sisters Karin and Marie and the maid Anna. Performance length: 120 min. Audience members must be aged 18 and over. 17:00 Světovar / Světovar Brewery Simona Petrů, Petr Jan Kryštof: QUIET TARZAN (directed by Anna Petrželková); DIVADLO HUSA NA PROVÁZKU, BRNO / GOOSE ON A STRING THEATRE, BRNO This producton, by a representatve of the youngest generaton of Czech directors, is inspired by the story of photographer Miroslav Tichý. Tichý, whose surname means “quiet” in Czech, was often seen by the world around him as a madman, voyeur and alcoholic, but in the last few years of his life he became a sought-after superstar and media darling. This exceptonally compelling scenic collage brings to the stage something of the poetry of Tichý’s underlit, obscure photographs. Performance length: 95 min. 21:00 Velké divadlo / Grand Theatre Martin Čičvák: KUKURA (directed by Rastslav Ballek); DIVADLO ARÉNA / ARENA THEATRE, BRATISLAVA (SK) A scandalous testmony to the state of culture in Slovakia (and elsewhere). The play, directly inspired by the work, attudes and personality of Juraj Kukura, looks in a highly theatrical way at what is threatening and destroying theatre today. Performance length: 100 min.


16. září / 16th September 14:00 Komorní divadlo / Chamber Theatre Dennis Kelly: LOVE AND MONEY (directed by Jan Mikulášek); DIVADLO V DLOUHÉ, PRAHA / THEATRE IN DLOUHÁ, PRAGUE This cruel comedy by contemporary Britsh author Dennis Kelly deals with love in its many forms. It consists of several stories which intertwine in a sophistcated way. The world of Kelly’s play is full of confused and wounded people, pretending not terribly convincingly that everything is absolutely fne. The more doggedly they try to be normal, the madder they become. This producton, by Jan Mikulášek, one of the best young Czech directors, makes efectve use of microphones, video cameras and projectons to create an impression of the world as a reality show from which there is no escape. Performance length: 90 min. 17:00 Sál Peklo / Peklo Hall Rainer Werner Fassbinder: GARBAGE, THE CITY AND DEATH (directed by Dušan Pařízek); PRAŽSKÉ KOMORNÍ DIVADLO – DIVADLO KOMEDIE / PRAGUE CHAMBER THEATRE – COMEDY THEATRE, PRAGUE A creatve, slightly updated producton of German enfant terrible Fassbinder’s scandalous and politcally-incorrect play (its premiere did not take place untl 1985, ten years after it was writen). The decadent environment of a café – both on stage and in the auditorium – gradually introduces a pleiad of sick and socially-dangerous characters, types who we unfortunately meet more and more often in real life. Performance length: 105 min. 20:00 Velké divadlo / Grand Theatre Slavnostní zakončení hlavní části festivalu Patrik Ouředník: EUROPEANA (directed by Jan Mikulášek); NÁRODNÍ DIVADLO BRNO – REDUTA / NATIONAL THEATRE - REDUTA, BRNO Twenteth-century European history described with detachment, humour and caustc irony. A rivetng staged commentary, by director Jan Mikulášek, on a century in which important roles were played by war, the discovery of the bra and of perforated toilet paper. This original combinaton of humour, mystfcaton and historical fact is a bizarre testmony to the world of the twenteth century. Performance length: 120 min.

OFF PROGRAM 12. září / 12h September 19:00 Divadlo Alfa / Alfa Theatre FIRE (writen and directed by Jiří Adámek); BOCA LOCA LAB An audio chronicle of European society at the turn of the 19 th and 20th centuries. Breakfast outdoors, the launch of a hot air balloon, the frst car ride. Progress, technology, politcs, love and history expressed in precisely-measured-out words, tones, gestures and movements – a further original theatrical compositon by Jiří Adámek. Performance length: 70 min. 21:00 Světovar / Světovar Brewery Jiří Havelka and team: I, HERO (directed by Jiří Havelka); KATEDRA ALTERNATIVNÍHO A LOUTKOVÉHO DIVADLA, DAMU, PRAHA / DEPARTMENT OF ALTERNATIVE AND PUPPET THEATRE, DAMU, PRAGUE No theatre, just bare reconstructon. This auteur project is a reconstructon of the deeds of the Mašín brothers, providing a maximally objectve environment for solving the simple but acute queston: MURDERER or HERO? Nothing but the facts. Make your mind up. And then change it. Performance length: 90 min. 14. září / 14h September 19:00 Divadlo Alfa / Alfa Theatre CLOUDS (producton authors: Švábová, Procházka, Hybler, Smolík, Dörner); HANDA GOTE A further excursion into “small history” by Handa Gote research&development. This tme they turn to their own private archives. Veronika Švábová scours her family history for the important moments and apparent trivialites that have been preserved in the memory of family members untl the present day, shaping the character of the family community. Music, dance, singing, photography, video, clouds. Performance length: 70 min.


16. září / 16h September 15:00 a 18:00 Komorní divadlo – klub / Chamber Theatre – club BACK TO BULLERBYN (directed by Jakub Vašíček and team); ŠPORTNIKI (CZ) in co-producton with LG MARIBOR (SLO) Very freely based on motfs from Astrid Lindgren’s book “The Children of Bullerby Farm.” What happens to Bullerby when you grow up? Who is in love with whom, who is jealous of whom, who is with whom and who is without whom…” Everything you wanted to know about Bullerby and were too scared to ask… the frst Czecho-Slovene puppet soap opera. Performance length: 60 min. 21:00 Světovar / Světovar Brewery SPRINGMAN (writen and directed by Jiří Havelka); VOSTO5 The ttular hero of the producton is a mythical Czech superhero from the Second World War who, following the example of comic-book heros, used to bounce playfully down Prague streets thanks to the springs on his feet and defeat the fascist occupiers. The inspiratonal tale of Springman is not just playing with history, however. It is a real theatre spectacle, combining elements of martal arts and extreme sports with the poetry of auteur theatre and typical verbal humour. Performance length: 90 min.

Information (and tickets) regarding OFF PROGRAM and accompanying events will be provided when you register upon your arrival.
