Puppet Theatre Czechoslovakia
June 12, 2009
We invite you to a satirical performance by the Puppet Theatre Czechoslovakia. It will take place in the Montmartre Gallery (Řetězová Street 7, Prague 1) on the 12th June at 19:00.
The performance lasts about an hour. Entrance fee is CZK 80.
This theatre was founded in 2003. From its beginnings, it has been connected with the faces of the Brno cultural scene. It was founded as a casual association of actors of the Brno HaTheatre and their friends, but gradually became a phenomenon of many Czech and Slovakian events.
This is a very atypical puppet theatre for adults, building on the scattered traditions of Czech folklore which it uses slightly incorrectly. A particularly valued quality of the group is the connection of distinct scenic elements with marginal and as yet unused objects, such as garbage. These unusual procedures are combined with the use of theatrical techniques, such as playing with optical illusions, etc. The theatrical production is strongly linked to the reaction of the audience, which is drawn into the play without coercion, rather voluntarily. So far, the staged performances have always been connected by a strong updating motivation, comments on historical as well as current political relationships and events, inconspicuously remoulded into absurd slapstick. The poetics are based on the tradition of the modernist musical compositions of E. F. Burian, mis-en-scenes are highlighted by human actors and animals, e.g. beavers.
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Letters to Olga – essays written in prison, letter
„Once you’re here, however, whether you want to or not, you have to ask the question: does all of this have a meaning, and if so, what?… Ultimately, I can only find an answer – a positive answer – within myself, in my general faith in the meaning of things, in my hope. What, in fact, is man responsible to? What does he relate to? What is the final horizon of his actions, the absolute vanishing point of everything he does, the undeceivable “memory of Being”, the conscience of the world and the final “court of appeal”? What is the decisive standard of measurement, the background or the field of each of his existential experiences? And likewise, what is the most important witness or the secret sharer in his daily conversations with himself, the thing that – regardless of what situation he has been thrown into – he incessantly inquires after, depends upon, and toward which his actions are directed, the thing that, in its omniscience and incorruptibility, both haunts and saves him, the only thing he can trust in and strive for? “
Václav Havel:
Letters to Olga – essays written in prison, letter
August 7, 1980
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