Performance in Profile

100 Wounded Tears

Author: Jozef Fruček & Linda Kapetanea

About the Production: 100 Wounded Tears was created by DOT504 Dance Company and Jozef Fruček and Linda Kapetanea (RootlessRoot Company), successful choreographers recognized in the international physical theatre scene. The Slovak actor and singer Csongor Kassai (whose film Divided We Fall was ... More

director: Jozef Fruček & Linda Kapetanea  |  languages: English  |  length: 70 minutes

A Small Hour Ago

Author: Václav Kuneš

About the Production: A Small Hour Ago is about accepting the crucial events that define the course of our life. There are moments that we try to recall again and again and others that we try very hard to forget. About the Company: The members of the company 420PEOPLE are Václav Kuneš and Nataša ... More

director: Václav Kuneš  |  languages: No language barrier  |  length: 55 minutes

A Tale about Raška

Author: Ota Pavel, Tomáš Syrovátka

About the Production: This performance, based on the themes in Ota Pavel's famous A Tale about Raška, ranks in the category of "experimental performances". The show takes place in an unusual space of a small unroofed arena. The audience should feel as though they are in the stands located around ... More

director: Martin Tichý  |  languages: In English  |  length: 55 minutes

A Unicorn Hunt

Author: Jan Jirků

About the Production: An adventure based upon the true story of Luboš Jednorožec in the 1950s. Though innocent, he was imprisoned, so he decided to escape, and that marked the start of the hunt for the Unicorn, who alone roams the country, overcoming obstacles of destiny and the snares laid out for ... More

director: Jan Jirků  |  languages: The conditions need to be discussed in advance  |  length: 55 minutes

A Wandering in the Branches

Author: Lenka Tretiagová, Ondřej Lipovský

About the Production: The narrative of the novel by Tobie Lolness has the advantage that it is a condensed interpretation of real, serious, exisiting problems in society, and at the same time it is a fairytale in the true sense of the word. The action takes place in a tree, which is a metaphor ... More

director: Lenka Tretiagová, Ondřej Lipovský  |  languages: English  |  length: 90 minutes

Arctic Robinson or the Unbelievable Wanderings of Jan Eskymo Welzl

Author: Vojta Švejda

About the Production: Let's conquer the freezing plains of Siberia and see the Eskimos together with a goldminer, adventurer and story-teller, who saw them in the flesh. In the past many people tried to reach the North Pole and many of them returned from the freezing Arctic frozen. However, 140 years ... More

languages: English  |  length: 60 minutes

B/olero

Author: Ohad Naharin

About the Production: "I saw a synthesizer on the record jacket, behind Bach. For the first time, I discovered that the synthesizer is not an instrument to compose music by using the sounds of existing instruments, but a new instrument or new machine which creates unlimited sound sources." Isao ... More

director: Ohad Naharin  |  length: 9 minutes

Black Hole

Author: Doyle Doubt

About the Production: A black hole could be anything, including a cosmic formation that has detached itself from our outer space and represents a separate world. A production created on the basis of the "directed improvisation" of the cast plays with the abilities and possibilities of human ... More

director: Jiří Havelka  |  languages: Czech, English  |  length: 90 minutes

Brand

Author: Henrik Ibsen

About the Production: The drama Brand, which in our opinion has lost nothing of its currency even one hundred and fifty years on, offers a harsh and sarcastic portrait of the consumer society and the intellectual languor encountered by a young man. The hero rejects the apathy and half-heartedness ... More

director: Štěpán Pácl  |  languages: Czech with English subtitles  |  length: 150 minutes

Brel - Vysockij - Kryl / Solo for Three

About the Production: Three singing poets, three singular artists, three human beings. Three different cultures, personalities, destinies. Although differing in language, musical utterance and the poetry of the lyrics, many more aspects unite them than divide them. The dance theatre piece, subtitled ... More

director: Petr Zuska  |  languages: Songs and the spoken word in Czech, French and Russian (with English subtitles)  |  length: 120 minutes