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Goose on a String Theatre
„A man took a goose and put it on a cord.
The goose strode out and took
the man for a walk. Come on!“
I.
DIVADLO
HUSA NA PROVÁZKU
Divadlo Husa na provázku („Goose on a String Theatre“)
was founded in 1968 by Eva Tálská, Peter Scherhaufer
and Zdeněk Pospíšil, students of theatre direction at
the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, along
with their teacher, the dramaturge Bořivoj Srba, who
became the company‘s first artistic director. The name
comes from the book of film and theatrical libretti by
Jiří Mahen, from which they drew on ideas as a focus
for their stage work, just as they were inspired by the
works of E. F. Burian and Bertolt Brecht.
The ensemble was initially founded as a generational
‚task force‘, which in addition to its founders also
brought together associated actors, artists, musicians
and writers. In their programme, they placed a strong
emphasis on creating and nurturing a scope for their
free creative quest and experimentation. The main
features were its dramaturgical openness, the search
for themes for theatrical production outside the usual
dramatic texts, the use of new options for the layout
of theatrical space, and an emphasis on the all-round
physical, musical and physical preparedness of the
actors.
In 1972, the theatre turned professional. Members
of the ensemble have included Boleslav Polívka,
Miroslav Donutil, Jiří Pecha, Jiri Bartoška, Dáša
Bláhová, Dagmar Veškrnová-Havlová, Karel Heřmánek,
and later Alena Ambrová and Iva Bittová, all of whom
have become leading Czech actors.
Over the following years, the dramaturge Petr Oslzlý
helped to expand the programme direction of the
theatre to include socially alternative activities,
the development of contacts with the open theatre
movement and the preparation of international
theatre projects. Oslzlý also formulated the broader
concept of a theatre as a movement that had not only
aesthetic but also ethical and social dimensions.
The distinctive writing style of each director lent the
theatre a dynamic plurality.
Eva Tálská impressed the audiences mostly with
her productions involving nonsense texts, such
Morgenstern‘s Gallows Songs, Carroll‘s Alice in
Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass or Edward
Lear‘s The Dong with a Luminous Nose, and also the
staging of poetry – Dante‘s Divine Comedy or Seifert‘s
Píseň o Viktorce (Song of Victoria). The non-verbal
stage production named Cirkus aneb Se mnou smrt
a kůň (Circus, or Death and Horse with Me) then
brought about a synthesis of her expressive practices.
The director Peter Scherhaufer prepared a famous
production of Commedia dell‘arte with Boleslav
Polívka in the role of Harlequin, which was performed
at a long series of major European festivals, including
the Theatre of Nations, at festivals in Nancy, Avignon,
Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Moscow, Milan, Stockholm,
Brussels, Berlin, Cardiff, Wroclaw and others. His
production of Brecht‘s Wedding was a success at
many international festivals. Important productions
by Scherhaufer include Brothers Karamazov (after
Dostoevsky‘s book), Labyrinth of the World and
Lusthouse of the Heart (after Comenius‘s Labyrinth of
the World and Paradise of the Heart), Chameleon or
Josef Fouché (opera nova) or Shakespearomania 1 to 3.
The director Zdeněk Pospíšil‘s successful staged
productions focused namely on works by the
playwright Milan Uhde, such as Balada pro Banditu
(Ballad for a Bandit – also known from its big-screen
version) or Pohádka máje (The Story of a May Day),
both with music by Miloš Štědroň.
One of the most important theatre productions was
Klauniáda (Clowns) by Boleslav Polivka , who was
both director and principal performer. These also
included Am a Ea, Pépe, Pezza versus Čorba, Trosečník
(The Castaway) and Šašek a královna (The Jester and
the Queen – also made into a movie). Polívka went on
to make a number of highly successful European and
American tours with them.
The most successful productions in the history of
the theatre also include two productions by the
director Ivo Krobot and the dramaturge Petr Oslzlý
Rozvzpomínání (Remembrance – after I Served the
King of England – a novel by Bohumil Hrabal) and
Babička (Granny – after a novel by B. Němcová).
Divadlo Husa na provázku also participated in many
international theatre projects. These include in
particular Vesna národů (Spring of Nations – together
with the ensemble Teatr 77 Lodz), the Together
project (on the theme of Comenius‘s Labyrinth of
the World) in Copenhagen, the travelling festival Mir
Caravane: Odyssea ʼ89 (from Moscow to Paris) or
the international project Cesta do Delf (The Road
to Delphi). In 2010 there was a continuation in Mir
Caravane, this time from Avignon to Moscow, with the
participation of leading European theatre companies.
The most important projects staged in collaboration
with Czech studio theatres include the generational
civic and artistic manifesto Cesty (křižovatky, jízdní
řády, setkání) – Roads (crossroads, timetables,
encounters) and the journalistic theatre project
Rozrazil, undertaken jointly with the HaDivadlo
theatre.
Vladimír Morávek became the artistic director
of the Divadlo Husa na provázku in 2005. The
theatre‘s artistic programme, which he launched,
is entitled Sedm žlutých praporů na Divadle Husa
na provázku (Seven Yellow Flags on the Divadlo
Husa na provázku). The names of each flag are as
follows: Continuity Flag, Courage Flag, Eccentricity
Flag, Savagery Flag, Admiration Flag, Smile Flag
and Generosity Flag. Under Morávek‘s directorship
there have been several seasons of highly successful
productions such as Uhde‘s Balada pro banditu
(Ballad for a Bandit) and Václav Havel‘s Prase (Hunt
for a Pig). The greatest recognition and appraisal
were then gained by his four-part project of staging
of Dostoevsky‘s major novels Sto roků kobry – One
Hundred Years of Cobra (Crime and Punishment,
The Idiot, The Possessed, The Brothers Karamazov),
also staged in a fascinating 12-hour production
entitled Svlékání z kůže (Shedding of the Skin). Other
important projects overseen by Morávek include
a three-part project covering the changes in Czech
society over the last fifty years entitled Perverze
v Čechách – Perversion in the Czech Lands. In
collaboration with Miloš Forman, Václav Havel and
a whole array of Czech intellectuals associated
around the Czech Vision 2009 project (Ludvík Vaculík,
Eva Jiřičná, Václav Cílek, Olga Sommerová, Jan Sokol,
Marta Kubišová, Rut Kolínská, Jiří Stránský, Tomáš
Halík) the theatre then attempted to formulate
options for the development of Czech society at
the outset of the new millennium. With the project
named Cirkus Havel na cestách (Havel the Travelling
Circus) the theatre was a guest at festivals in Moscow,
Avignon and Villeneuve. Under Morávek‘s leadership
the theatre went on several tours of Austria, Poland,
Russia and France. Currently, two major projects are
in the pipeline: Jirka Kniha hledá autora (Jirka Kniha is
looking for an author – a comprehensive performance
of seven new Czech and Slovak dramas) and Čapek
na Provázku (Čapek on a String – a stage production of
prose texts by Karel Čapek). Alongside with Morávek,
additional leading Czech directors such as J. A.
Pitínský, J. Mikulášek, P. Forman, B. Rychlík have been
involved in this project. Other collaborating directors
include M. Huba and A. Goldflam.
In recent years, the theatre performed its productions
on Czech and foreign stages (New York, Paris,
Budapest, Moscow, Lodz, Avignon and Saint
Petersburg) and participated in many international
theatre festivals. The artistic ensemble received
numerous nominations for the Alfred Radok Award
and has been shortlisted for the Theatre of the Year
on several occasions.
II.
SELECTED PROJECTS
2004-2011
Sto roků kobry
– One Hundred Years
of Cobra
A unique project of the Divadlo Husa na provázku and
Vladimír Morávek, who subjected the four masterworks
by F. M. Dostoevsky to theatrical metamorphosis, from
which four outstanding stage pieces emerged:
RASKOLNIKOV – HIS CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Premièred on 19 December 2003
PRINCE MYSHKIN IS AN IDIOT
Premièred on 12 January 2004
STAVROGIN IS THE DEVIL!
Premièred on 23 October 2004
KARAMAZOV BROTHERS RELOADED
Premièred on 10 February 2006
This extensive stage tetralogy is based on innovative
dramatizations of novels, centred on their main
heroes; over three years of hard work, the acting
ensemble soaked up the fates of the lost beings
from Dostoevsky‘s novels and whipped themselves
up to produce bewitching performances. This dive
into the inner worlds of Dostoevsky‘s heroes is
conceived as a Calvary of images: Crime – Fall – Death
– Resurrection.
The One Hundred Years of Cobra project was
a fateful meeting at the boundary between a frantic
adrenaline-filled experience and a bloody Holy Mass.
Svlékání z kůže – Bestiář podle Dostojevského
– Shedding of the skin – A Bestiary according
to Dostoevsky
Once every 100 days the Divadlo Husa na provázku
shed its skin and performed the theatrical fresco
A Bestiary according to Dostoevsky in a single day.
Over eleven hours, all the characters from each
part of Dostoevsky‘s tetralogy met on the stage and
accompanied the audience through the Calvary of
a torn soul yearning for resurrection.
All the parts of the tetralogy were highly praised by
critics and the public alike. The production of Prince
Myshkin is an Idiot was awarded the Divadelní noviny
(Theatre Journal) prize and, along with the production
of Stavrogin is the Devil! , it was nominated for the
most prestigious Czech theatre critics‘ prize – the
Alfred Radok Award in the category of Production of
the Year 2004. Petr Jeništa was nominated Best Male
Actor of the Year and Talent of 2003 for his portrayal
of Raskolnikov. One year later, Jan Budař in the role of
Stavrogin and Pavel Liška in the role of Prince Myshkin
were nominated for the same award. In 2004, Eva
Vrbková was nominated for the Best Actress award for
her portrayal of Nastasya Filippovna. Petr Hromádka
won the Alfred Radok 2004 Award for his prodigious
incidental music to the entire One Hundred Years
of Cobra project. Jan Štěpánek‘s stage design was
nominated for Stage Design of the Year 2004. The
Divadlo Husa na provázku was shortlisted for the
Theatre of the Year 2004 award.
Perverze v Čechách
– Perversion in the
Czech Lands
A three-year theatre project by DHNP
The theatre project Perversion in the Czech Lands
considers the crisis of Czech identity and the ‚Czech fate‘
between the years 1968–1989; the main part of the
project consists of three theatre productions:
Miloš Forman, Jaroslav Papoušek, Ivan Passer
Lásky jedné plavovlásky – Loves of a Blonde
– a story from the 1960s
Premièred on 17 November 2007
Václav Havel, Vladimír Morávek, Petr Oslzlý
Cirkus Havel aneb My všichni jsme Láďa
– Circus Havel, or We‘re all Láďa
Premièred on 7 November 2008
David Drábek, Vladimír Morávek
České moře v Czech Sea
Premièred on 7 November 2009
From the outset the theatre‘s dramaturgy has involved
the collective performance of Perversion in the Czech
Lands in the space of one day - on the date of the
twentieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on
17 November 2009. Over the space of three years
the Divadlo Husa na provázku thus developed an
outstanding theatrical fresco mapping the life and
development of Czech society over the past 50 years.
All three productions met with great acclaim from
the general public and critics alike, and provide
clear proof of the high artistic quality of the director
and the entire DHNP ensemble. Vladimír Morávek
reaffirmed his reputation as a director of major
concepts, whilst at the same time with this work his
individual method of assembly reached its apogee.
In the end, the result of this enormous creative
effort was the long-planned twelve-hour theatrical
marathon which includes, in addition to these three
shows, also a number of accompanying events,
concerts, stage sketches and staying together.
The première of this collective performance took
place on 17 November 2009 in the Great Hall and in
other areas of the DHNP – on the day of the twentieth
anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.
This unique project was one of the reasons why the
Divadlo Husa na provázku was nominated by theatre
critics as Theatre of the Year 2009.
Cirkus Havel
na cestách – Havel
the Travelling Circus
This collaboration with the person of Václav Havel is
one of the flagships of the Divadlo Husa na provázku.
Havel the Travelling Circus is an original theatrical
programme, which was put together specifically for the
needs of Czech and international theatre festivals and
events:
PRASE or VÁCLAV HAVEL‘S HUNT FOR A PIG
Direction and editing: Vladimír Morávek
Gala Première on 12 June 2010 in the Large
Courtyard of Špilberk Castle
The staging of this unknown short play by Václav Havel was
one of the dramaturgical discoveries of the 2010 season
– an anecdote about an unsuccessful pig slaughter, which
a well-known dissident attempts to arrange for his friends
was, under the direction of Vladimír Morávek, a sarcastic
joke on the Czech national character. This innovative
combination of sharp dramatic scenes of Havel‘s type, with
songs from the most famous Czech opera The Bartered
Bride by Bedřich Smetana, proved to be highly fortuitous
and gave rise to an original production which attracted both
critics and general public alike. In addition to the fact that
the production was chosen as the opening performance
of the first International Theatrical World Festival in Brno,
it scored an additional success on its international tours in
France, Belgium and Russia and was selected as the main
programme at the prestigious international theatre festival
DIVADLO in Plzeň (Pilsen). The inventiveness and originality
of this unassuming text is attested to in the fact that the
play was nominated for the Alfred Radok Award for the best
original Czech drama of 2010.
PIŽĎUCHOVÉ
Director: Vladimír Morávek
Premièred on 4 July 2010 as part of the Villeneuve en
Scène international festival
The only fairy tale that Václav Havel has ever written. This
peculiar grotesque performance came about partially for
the International Theatrical World Festival in Brno, whose
first season was dedicated to the life and work of Václav
Havel, and was also listed among the titles that the theatre
offers year-round to children‘s audiences. The production
was an essential part of Havel the Travelling Circus project
and the international touring festival Mir Caravane 2010,
with which it travelled to France, Belgium and Russia in the
summer of that year.
PĚT TET – FIVE AUNTS
Director: Vladimír Morávek
Premièred on 13 June 2010 in the property storage
room
This theatrical sketch was also written mainly for the
International Theatrical World Festival in Brno, to which
the Divadlo Husa na provázku devoted much of its energy
and creativity. At the theatre‘s request, Václav Havel wrote
a one-act play, which builds on his Vernisáž (Exhibition
Opening) of 1975. The staging of the sketch came about in
collaboration with the Klicperovo divadlo in Hradec Králové
and as well as being staged at the Brno festival this short
play also appeared at the prestigious Theatre European
Regions international festival in Hradec Králové, where it
met with great audience acclaim.
Over the years, the Divadlo Husa na provázku has
almost become Václav Havel‘s ‚core‘ theatre, exporting
his works repeatedly to festivals and tours at home and
abroad. In recent years we could mention for example the
international Mir Caravane 2010 tour, Theatre European
Regions international theatre festival in Hradec Králové,
a series of performances at the Divadlo Archa in Prague,
the International Theatre Festival DIVADLO 2010 in Plzeň
(Pilsen) and a journey to the festival in Warsaw scheduled
for October 2011.
Mir Caravane 2010
An international theatrical tour of 2010
Mir Caravane 1989
An international theatrical tour of 1989
A European theatrical event, so far the largest of its
kind, which the Divadlo Husa na provázku implemented
together with eight alternative European groups:
Compagnie du Hasard from Blois, France; the AngloFrench Footsbarn Travelling Theatre; the ArgentineItalian company Teatro Nucleo, the Dutch visual
action group Dog Troep and the Academy of Hustle
from Warsaw (neither of the latter two was allowed to
perform in Prague) and others.
At the beginning of May, a Divadlo Husa na provázku
convoy consisting of ten Škoda 1203 vehicles
departed from Brno. The festival was launched the
same month in Moscow and then travelled until
September through Leningrad, Warsaw, Prague, West
Berlin, Copenhagen, Basel, Lausanne and Blois to
Paris.
During their three-day stop in Prague in early July –
which was historically the first international festival
of alternative theatre to be held in the capital city
– the western groups, inspired by a special letter
sent by Charter 77 and other independent initiatives
addressed to all the theatres participating in Mir
Caravane advocated, to roars of approval from the
crowd, solidarity with persecuted Czech artists. The
secret police were powerless against the unity and
conformity of the theatre audiences. Mir Caravane‘s
stop in Prague became a great celebration of theatre
and the society longing for freedom and in a way
foreshadowed the events of November..
In the summer of 2010, the Divadlo Husa na provázku
participated in this major international travelling
theatre festival, which tied in with the important MIR
CARAVANE European theatre event which had taken
place in 1989. A total of ten independent groups and
theatres from across Europe participated in the current
form of the Mir Caravan 2010 project:
• Teatro Nucleo di Ferrara (Italy)
• Antagon TheatrAKTion (Germany)
• Ton und Kirschen Wandertheater (Germany)
• Teatr Ósmego dnia (Poland)
• Compagnie du Hasard (France)
• Divadlo Husa na provázku (Czech Republic)
• Les Baladins du Minout (Belgium)
• Slava Polunin – Slava‘s Snowshow (Russia)
• Buchinger‘s Boot Marionettes (France)
• Lartmada (France)
The main stops on this grand European theatre
summer tour were:
• International Theatre Festival in Villeneuve lez
Avignon (3–23 July)
• Belgian university town of Namur (6–15 August)
• Theatre festival in Moscow (1–6 September)
The tour included the rehearsal and joint production
of a special performance entitled Europe, the basis
of which was an internationally understandable story
about a girl who decided to flee in the search for
hope from her native African village torn shaken by
unbearable living conditions to Europe.
The project won support from the European Union
as part of the Institution Building Partnership
Programme and a grant from the Ministry of Culture.
This international theatrical project was also openly
supported by Václav Havel and was held under the
patronage of the Belgian Presidency of the European
Union and the Franco-Russian year 2010.
Čapek na Provázku
– Čapek on a String
A multiple-year theatre project, which aims to bring
the work of one of the greatest Czech writers and
convincing advocate of democracy, Karel Čapek, to the
present day. The project does not stem from his plays,
but systematically focuses on the staging of his prose,
which offers significant opportunities for distinctive
staging and design. The common theme is the interest
in the inner world of man with all of its richness and
metaphysical anxiety.
The theatre invited leading Czech theatre directors
to cooperate – Jan Antonín Pitinský (Hordubal,
a ballad), Jan Mikulášek (book of short stories Boží
muka (Calvary) and Trapné povídky (Awkward Stories))
and Vladimír Morávek (unfinished short story Život
a dílo skladatele Foltýna – The Life and Work of
the Composer Foltyn). From the very outset of the
project it can be seen that the ideas and artistic
methods of Karel Čapek are still alive and that
engaging imagination and choosing an appropriate
interpretative key, fascinating and exciting theatrical
productions may arise.
Josef Králík and other members of the ensemble in
the leading roles.
Vladimír Hauser was nominated for the prestigious
Alfred Radok Award for Best Male Actor 2010 for his
role of Hordubal.
Trapná muka – AWKWARD ordeal
Directed and dramatized by: Jan Mikulášek
Premièred on 1 and 2 April 2011
The second part of the Čapek on a String project. Only
when man meets a mystery, does he realize his own
soul. Awkward Stories and Calvary – two distinctive
worlds, in which the stories of desire for a miracle
with the painful humdrum of human destiny come
together. Stories on an edge, Čapek on the crossroads
of the world today. The traffic lights are off again.
The best time to follow different tracks. Small prints
of mystery, the shuffling of their own shadows,
reflections of time and the fall of souls.
Parts of the project implemented to date:
Hordubal (ACH, STŮL, ŽIDLE, SVĚTLO A SLOUP
– OH, TABLE, CHAIR, LIGHT AND COLUMN)
Director: J. A. Pitínský
Premièred on 6 and 8 March 2010
„... It is often non-verbalized, abstract, grotesque, dark,
free from Čapek‘s later mannerisms. It is a peculiar
image of a small Czech town, in timelessness, poetic,
simple, eerie ...“
The first part of the Čapek on a String project.
A ballad-like tale of love, sin and guilt, of returning
home and finding one‘s lost heart. And a little bit of
a crime story. One of Karel Čapek‘s most important
works in a production by J. A. Pitínský. What is the real
truth behind Hordubal and Polana and what is the
truth about Štěpán Manya? Man is too complicated to
have a single face. With Vladimír Hauser, Eva Vrbková
or Andrea Buršová, Robert Mikluš, Jiří Pecha,
Planned parts of the project:
Život a dílo skladatele Foltýna
– Life and Work of the Composer Foltyn
Director: Vladimír Morávek
Première scheduled for 2012
Jan Mikulášek
Epilogue: DášeŇka
Director: Jakub Krofta
Première scheduled for 2013
Kde Shakespeare
můj – Where is my
Shakespeare?
Seven contemporary Czech texts
directed by seven leading Czech directors
At the end of 2010 the theatre announced the
Konstantin Treplev Award – a competition for best
original dramatic text of the year. A total of thirty-nine
so-far unperformed original dramatic texts by thirtyfour authors were entered into the competition, from
which the artistic directors of the theatre chose seven
finalists. The top three places were taken by texts by
Ondřej Novotný (To léto – That Summer), Ján Mikuš
(Ryba horí – A Fish Burning) and Pavel Trtílek
(Večer umělců – An Evening of Artists).
We subsequently approached seven leading Czech
directors, under whose leadership a total of seven
premières of this original project took place
between 4 March and 14 May 2011:
Jirka Kniha hledá autora
– Jirka Kniha is looking for an Author:
PART THREE
Daniela Fischerová
12 způsobů mizení – 12 Ways to Disappear
(3rd place in the Alfred Radok Award)
Director: Barbara Herz
Premièred on 16 April 2011
PART FOUR
Ondřej Novotný
To léto – ThAT summer
(1st place in the Konstantin Treplev Award)
Director: Jan Mikulášek
Premièred on 23 April 2011
PART FIVE
David Drábek
Vykřičené domy – Houses of Disrepute
(to date this radio play has not been performed
in theatres) Director: Petr Forman
Premièred on 30 April 2011
PART SIX
Karel Steigerwald
Hraj komedii – Play Comedy
(Not yet performed)
Director: Břetislav Rychlík
Premièred on 7 May 2011
part one
Ján Mikuš
Ryba horí – A Fish Burning
(2nd place in the Konstantin Treplev Award)
Director: Ján Mikuš
Premièred on 4 March 2011
PART SEVEN
Petr Maška
Žároviště – FURNACE
(Not yet performed, one of the finalists in the
Konstantin Treplev Award)
Director: Anna Petrželková
Premièred on 14 May 2011
PART TWO
Pavel Trtílek
Večer umělců – AN Evening of Artists
(3rd place in the Konstantin Treplev Award)
Director: Vladimír Morávek
Premièred on 12 March 2011
Collective twelve-hour performance of the
extraordinary Divadlo Husa na provázku project in the
space of a single day entitled KDE SHAKESPEARE MŮJ
– WHERE IS MY SHAKESPEARE, which took place on
29 May 2011 at the International Theatre World Brno
Festival 2011.
Balada pro banditu
– Ballad for a Bandit
Remake of the legendary musical drama. Eva Vrbková
and Jan Zadražil love each other with a bloody
passion.
„Never bathe twice in the same river.“
This famous musical drama of great love and even greater
betrayal, about men who are consumed by anger and
about women who are able to bring these men out of their
terrible anger with kissing, biting and hugging. It is a fun and
exciting performance. The Divadlo Husa na provázku shows
itself to be in great shape!
III.
SELECTED PRODUCTIONS
FROM THE CURRENT REPERTOIRE
Director: Vladimír Morávek
Libretto: Milan Uhde
Text editing: Vladimír Morávek, Barbara Vrbová
Dramaturgy: Barbara Vrbová
Stage design: Martin Chocholoušek
Costumes: Sylvie Zimula Hanáková
Music: Milos Štědroň
Arrangement: Petr Hromádka
Accompanists: Karel Albrecht / Martin Jakubíček
Choreography: Leon Qaša Kvasnicová
Puppets : Antonín Maloň
Fights: Václav Luks
Premièred on 17 November 2005
The charms of this stylization include the span between
ferocity, childhood playfulness and tenderness, most
concentrated in the fatal and high-spirited Eržika by Eva
Vrbková.“
Kateřina Bartošová, Lidové noviny (24 November 2005)
Leoš aneb Tvá
nejvěrnější
– Leoš or the Most
Faithfully Yours
„It is always extremely difficult to find yourself somewhere
near a legend. And when it happens, you need to either escape
or accept it as your fate. „
The master and his life and music and Death or How
a work from a remote Moravian village conquered the
world – the three Janáček characters (as a boy, as a young
man, as a mature man) and six women on laid out in the
form of stories of very laughable loves, reveal their hearts,
desires and disappointments. The impetus for the new
Divadlo Husa na provázku project was the personality of
the renowned music and opera composer Leoš Janáček,
who spent a large part of his creative life in Brno. In
collaboration with the music scholar and composer Milos
Štědroň, a year-round cycle of discussions with leading
experts on the works of Janáček entitled ‚Kabinet Janáček‘
(Janáček‘s Study) was implemented. The culmination of the
project will be the staging of the play inspired by Janáček‘s
life story and his work in particular. The production is
directed by Vladimír Morávek.
Everything is wild and untamed: the women more so than
men, the imprecating song of the birds, dance and clatter.
This stylish shift of Morávek‘s production can firmly rely on
music re-arranged by Petr Hromádka, now inspired by ethnic
motives. Here women are witches, real or at least potential,
including the excellent singer and „quinton“ (five-string violin)
player Gabriela Vermelho and cellist Eva Horáková.
Author: Milan Uhde
Director: Vladimír Morávek
Dramaturgy: Miroslav Oščatka
Stage design: Ladislav Vlna
Costumes: Eva Morávková
Music: Milos Štědroň
Premièred on 11 November 2011
Vladimir Morávek, director
Centre for experimental theatre, allowance organization
Director CED Petr Oslzlý
THEATRE GOOSE ON A STRING, the theatre with wiiings
Artistic director: Vladimír Morávek
Zelný trh 9, 602 00 Brno, www.ced-brno.cz, www.provazek.cz, e-mail: [email protected]
Text: Miroslav Oščatka, Josef Kovalčuk, Eva Yildizová
Graphic design and illustrations: Martin Kaiser
Photos: Viktor Kronbauer, Jakub Jíra, Eva Yildizová, Jan Plešák, Martin Zeman a Roman Franc
www.provazek.cz
Statutory city of Brno finance
Centre for experimental theatre, allowance organization.
Ministry of Culture Czech Republlic finance acitivity of CED.