Mind if I ask you something?
Why are you lying?
Movement, live music, dynamics, energy, exaggeration, and a few words. The movement satire Czech Hero features a woman determined to meet those she does not understand.
The production loosely takes inspiration from the scandal and courage of journalist Ivana Svobodová for the creation of absurd movement characters and situations from a world we have to live in.
Her “mission” takes her to the living room of a pensioner who wanted to save “our little country” and thus became “the first Czech terrorist”: “It’s intriguing that someone’s chopping down trees, planning to derail a train, and pretending to be a muslim.”
Do you also try to comprehend the incomprehensible?
Abstract
"It's such a muddled world. You have to have a firsthand experience of these people, we can’t just tell each other that they’re walking misinformation and write it down or philosophize about it.''
In the show Czech Hero, the political and the intimate, the public and the personal, intertwine. The production is about the bonds we form with each other, no matter how alien we might be. About the relationships in a society of clashing opinions; about what we are willing to do for the world we want to live in.
Dynamic movement, word, live music, energy, exaggeration. As we are accustomed to with Farm in the Cave, the production is more concrete than dance and more abstract than drama.
For those of you who still care. Not just for liberals.
The production Czech Hero was created in co-production with the DOX Center for Contemporary Art and alongside subsequent educational programs it is part of the Online Hero project, which was supported by EEA 2014-2021 funds, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Prague City Hall, the National Recovery Plan and the ČEZ Foundation.
Created by Viliam Dočolomanský, Hana Varadzinová, Andrej Štepita, Michaela Králiková, Sebastian Jacques, Barbora Ješutová, Markéta Hrehorová, Sodja Lotker, Lucia Škandíková
Direction & choreography Viliam Dočolomanský
Assistant directors and choreographers Barbora Ješutová, Kamila Mottlová
Dramaturgy Sodja Lotker, Markéta Hrehorová
Music Štěpán Janoušek
Scenography Lucia Škandíková
Costumes Kateřina Jirmanová
Sound design: Eva Svobodová
Lighting design: Martin Špetlík
Sound Adam Veselý
Lights Vít Škoda, Lukáš Jíra
Production Eliška Seveldová
Production assistant Zuzka Borová
Visual identity of the project Patrik Svoboda
Fundraising Vendula Kodetová, Ania Obolewicz, Anely Jeromin, Ondřej Wald
PR Blue Gekko, Alice Škrlantová, Anna Nádvorníková
Special thanks Erik Bartoš, Lenka Drncová, Hedvika Máchová, Sebastian Jacques, Eliška Vavříková
Performers Hana Varadzinová, Andrej Štepita, Michaela Králiková, Matúš Szegho, David Králík, Štěpán Janoušek, Miloš Klápště
Premiere
26.04.2024
