Do something different while in Prague
Go see a movement performance, a deep story, and poetry full of images that can heal the world. And if not the world, at least it can give us a gentle stroke...
Inspired by the ballad by the Czech poet František Hrubín
Watch a preview of the performance
The moving story with its beautiful language and the poetry full of images may work as a cure against the world obsessed with production and serve as a reminder of the human dimension in each one of us. The performance impresses with the power of simplicity and humanity emerging from the poetry of Hrubín. Text full of emotions with its rich and intense ancient story, text relating to the pre-Christian and Christian roots of the European culture at the moment of their retrieval and need for their remembering.
“Josef Padevět and his wife Marie have been walking. Marie does not want to surrender the bundle made of a quilt and covered with a coat that she has been holding in her arms. In it, blood is running through the darkness of the little body that, with every beat of its heart, has been approaching the moment when it realizes itself and becomes enchanted by the immense and amazing life with the horrors of wars, dreams, and love, …“
František Hrubín, The Lešany Crib
Credits:
Lenka Vagnerová - concept, choreography, direction
Vladimír Javorský - concept, dramaturgy
Ivan Acher - music
Performing:
Matilde Giacomelli/Monika Částková
Fanny Bašista
Leo Terris/Lukas Lizama Garrido
Léonard Vo Tan
Adam Sojka
Anna Vránová, Lenka Vagnerová, Vladimír Javorský - scenography
Michal Heriban, Andrea Vagnerová - costumes
Music performed by:
Jana Vébrová - accordion, helicon, vocals
Lenka Dusilová - vocals
Karolína Baranová - voice
Vladan Maliniak - violin, viola
Ivan Acher - vocals, helicon, sampler, preparpiano
Vladimír Javorský - voice
Michal Kříž - light design
Eva Hamouzová - sound design
Lenka Vagnerová & Company - producer
Important:
- No intermission
- Theatre is a cultural institution; please respect the common principles of appropriate behaviour and clothing
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