An initiative of the
22.11.2009–16.02.2010
Žilina , Prag, Hamburg, Berlin, BrnoSvoboda! Svoboda? Freedom! Freedom?
Theatre
As part of the project “68/89 – Art.Contemporary.History”, four theatre productions took a look at the upheaval of 1989 and its repercussions under the motto of “Svoboda! Svoboda?”:
CHANCE 1989 or WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY
Premiere 16.09.2009, Archa Theatre, Prague
”Window of opportunity” is a term used by NASA to describe the complex constellation of conditions under which it is possible to launch a rocket into space. In common parlance it means a chance that needs to be taken now, because it may first present itself again in some far-off future. Have we taken the chance presented by the window of opportunity that was 1989? – The piece is a kind of documentary theatre that connects drama with expert discussions. A fictive radio show on the station RADIO 89 FM functions as the framework for the evening, where the story of Kurt and Kvĕta, a German-Czechoslovakian married couple, is told.
Stage and direction: Jana Svobodová
Dramaturgy: Ondřej Hrab, Tomáš Vrba
Lighting: Lukáš Brinda, Pavla Beranová
Music and sound design: Jan Středa
Production: Helena Rousová
With: Eva Hromníková, Philipp Schenker
Host of the fictive radio station: Jaroslav Rudiš
A theatre project by the author collective Jana Svobodová, Anna Grusková, Tomáš Vrba and Ondřej Hrab, a Divadlo Archa (Archa Theatre, Prague) production as part of the Zipp project “68/89 Art.Contemporary.History”
THE LAST HISTORICAL ROLE OF THE YOUNG GENERATION
Premiere 22.11.2009, Stanica Theatre, Žilina
What happens when you find out during a party that they’ve beaten up someone and the revolution has begun? Sure, there’s been Perestroika for the last four years, the regimes in Eastern Europe are collapsing one after the other, the first tourists are making off with a part of the Berlin Wall and there’s definitely something in the air in Czechoslovakia. But that’s politics, and life runs through different channels, stories of students who were on the margins of events.
Director: Ján Šimko
Dramaturgy: Fedor Blaščák, Zuzana Ferenczová
Music: Matúš Homola
Stage and custome: Jerguš Opršal
With: Marian Balážik, Ľubomír Bukový, Juraj Igonda
A production by Stanica Žilina-Záriečie (Stanica Theatre in Žilina) as part of the Zipp project “68/89 – Art.Contemporary,History”.
THE GOTT VARIETY SHOW or DO WE LIVE IN GOTTLAND?
Premiere 22.11.2009, Stanica Theatre, Žilina
The production by the Brno company “Goose on the Line” is a grotesque theatrical snapshot devoted to the phenomenon of Karel Gott – an icon of pop culture in the Czech Republic and Germany alike and at the same time a controversial today down to the present day due to his ties to the communist regime.
Director: Jiří Jelínek
Text: Jiří Jelínek, Barbara Vrbová and Pavel Trtílek
Dramaturgy: Barbara Vrbová
Music selection and arrangement: DVA
Costume: Marie Mukařovská and Marcela Ulrichová
Make-up: Sylva Zimula Hanáková
With: Jiří Jelínek and Martina Krátká
A production by Divadlo Husa na provázku (The Goose on the Line Theatre, Brno) as part of the Zipp project “68/89 – Art.Contemporary.History”.
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