SPITFIRE COMPANY, Prague (CZ)
Wednesday | 2 October 2024 | 18:00
Academy of Arts, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, 95 Horná Street
Adults
A multi-genre production about the power of the powerless influenced by reading the books of the Belarusian writer, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, Svetlana Alexievich.
Two Russian artists who have long been working and living in Prague reveal the cruelty of Russian life with an incredible amount of dark humour. The chilling jokes, the absurdity of the situations and the attempt to trivialise them are the main features of the production composed of the memories and statements of war memorials, the Chernobyl disaster and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The staging stylisation is performed as live cinema using puppet animation, in which food plays the main role.
Concept and director: Petr Boháč
Technical support: Martin Tvrdý
Project manager: Barbora Repická
Production and booking: Aneta Fodorová, Veronika Ilíková
Coproduction: Palác Akropolis, festival Příští vlna/Next wave
Cast:
Inga Zotova Mikshina
Roman Zotov Mikshin
Supported by: The capital city of Prague, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the State Cultural Fund of the Czech Republic, the Czech-German Future Fund.
At the Fringe festival in Edinburgh the production won one of the main prizes, the First Award and earned four-star reviews British newspapers and magazines such as The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Scotsman, The List, Daily Mail.
https://www.spitfirecompany.cz/predstaveni/end-of-man-news-report-from-the-kitchen/?lang=en
Q&A led by Marián Pecko after the performance. More information about discussions here
