Programme 2007

Genre: Theatre, Text based but visual

This Budapest Fringe 2006 Best Actor Award show is a journey of the mind. One man, one woman, one chair, explore their perception of self as they jump between reality and fiction. Dealing with the known, the unknown, the safe, the unsafe, fighting to control and hide what others use to exploit about them. Echoing our trapped relationships, and how we manipulate ourselves and others by the roles we create and play.
”Comic, disturbing, verging on madness” - The Scotsman

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English with some Hungarian

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Text based but visual

Amelia, written and directed by Scena Theatre’s Artistic Director Robert McNamara, deals with the life and disappearance of the famed American aviatrix Amelia Earhart on her 1937 around-the-world flight. The play Amelia poses the questions as to her real mission. Was her disappearance due to error? Or was she a spy for the US? Earhart's disappearance is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th Century. No one knows to this day why she disappeared.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: All audiences (contains strong language)

Genre: Physical Theatre with verbal elements

Shocking, provocative and brilliant adaptation of Beckett’s short story. A young tramp meets a prostitute and from a chance meeting first love is born. But can its purity survive the cruelty and perversity of the world around them? Since 1987 First Love has been performed over 700 times and at over 20 festivals around the world, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (4 times!)

„..a true little gem” - Festival Guide, Edinburgh
„a weird vision of love and it leaves you feeling strangely moved” - What’s On, London

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Mime

Mime must go on! Modern mime. White mask. Birth versus tragedy. Expression of an expression. Shy comedy. Fall into imagination. Striptease of surrealism. Rhythm of silence. In spite of a sentence. Delicate emotion. Čechová. Vizváry. Miřenka. Radim. Theatro pantomissimo!

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: Non verbal

Age accessibility: Not only for Adults

Genre: Theatre, text based.

On a visit to a beautiful but tormented place, where the most basic of political struggles is being enacted, the narrator of Wallace Shawn's THE FEVER falls ill. Slumped on the floor of a hotel bathroom, the traveler is visited by cherished memories of a privileged past. But as the night wears on, the bathroom floor becomes a battlefield on which an internal struggle wages.

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults / older children

Genre: Theatre, Text based but visual

Little d-fects bring their ”fresh, easily accessible style” (Hairline, Edinburgh 2003) to the Prague Fringe Festival with ‘Tourist’ - a show about how dreams are shattered or fulfilled in an instant, and how our whole existence can turn on one fraction of a second. Olympic city Beijing is about to see a total eclipse and four people are wondering if their lives really revolve around one moment in this exhilarating and frenetic production.
”Truly exciting theatre” - Plymouth Herald, 2004

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 14 and over

Genre: Dark Comedy, text based but visual

Deep in the freezer, a popsicle caught in stasis is tormented by his own thoughts. His curiosity leaves him searching for a meaning outside the box. With a cartoon ambience, this two-man show has provoked and intrigued audiences with its imaginative genius and outlandish creativity.

Canadian adjudicator Allan Stratton calls this Beckett-esque fancy "a sheer delight"! Winner of six awards including Best Original Script for Theatrical Excellence and Best Show of LOAF 2005.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for General Audiences

Genre: Music

Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear Brazilian music at the Prague Fringe Festival. Join the charismatic American guitarist Peter Griggs for A Day In Prague, A Night In Brazil, and hear Latin jazz, bossa nova, samba and everything from Tom Jobim and The Buena Vista Social Club to Thelonious Monk and the Beatles.
In hundreds of concerts throughout Europe and the USA, Griggs has been recognized as an expressive guitarist with a delicate touch on his instrument.

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: With limited commentary in English

Age accessibility: Suitable for general audience

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

They’ve found a picture. Could this picture spell the destruction of civilized society…? Or is it just the scribblings of a four year old? Who's telling the truth? What is the truth? And does the truth really matter any more? Les Enfants Terribles present their award-winning show… ‘The Infant’
***** - ”Savage satire…” - British Theatre Guide ***** - ”An amazing play…” – Hairline **** - ”Bitingly funny, deeply insightful” – Three Weeks **** - ”as elegant as it’s subversive” – Metro

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only and young adults – not suited to young children

Genre: Theatre – Dance – Storytelling / Text based but visual

Tarantella, Tarantula is a unique, vital and contemporary exploration of dance, music and story telling - exuding a life force that speaks of continuity and passionate age old practices not alien to our modern needs. The performance weaves a delicate and poignant story.

Artship’s idiosyncratic style has been described by critics as being at the nexus of dance, theater, cinema and „zen.” „Actors-dancers bring lost art of physical storytelling to life” - San Francisco Chronical

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Comedy/Physical Theatre/Dance Theatre

Dance madness consisting of two scenes and eight actors. In dance sketches full of the humour, tenderness and dance you might see kleptomaniac, nymphomaniac, phallocentric man, hysterical woman and others.
This project has been inspired by comedy dell‘arte, silent comedy, ballet, folklore, pantomime, jazz, swing, step, Mr. Bean, Monty Python and by the dreams of one’s own.

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: Non verbal

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy, text based

Stephen frost is joined by Richard Vranch, Steve Steen,Andy Smart, all regulars at Londons Comedy Store and all appeared on ”Who’s line is it anyway?”
Fast and furious comedy. You shout it out, they act it out. No safety net. ”These boys rock” - Time Out New York ”Far better than the tv show” - Daily Telegraph

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual with music

A powerful new show full of action, laugher, tears and the live sounds of classic soul and Motown based on the short stories of FX Toole and brought to life with a punch by Bruvvers; this is the story of a Tyneside lass who dreams of becoming a world class boxer.

„Laissez les bon temps rouler” „Let the good times roll” – Bruvvers Theatre Company

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for people over 12 - contains some strong language

Genre: Theatre – solo performance, text based

Drawing on Mary Shelley’s life and her novel, Frankenstein, and employing everything from creation myths to potato heads, this one-woman play explores reproductive technology, the act of creation, and one’s struggle to know who and what one is.
”This is a work of great empathy and invention, a model for monologists” ***** Edmonton Journal, Canada
”Intellectually rigorous, elegantly written and exquisitely performed” **** SEE Magazine, Canada

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility:

Genre: Music and Spoken Word

Bringing together four of Ireland's most exciting musicians and poets, ”The Voice and The Verse” is a montage of poignant lyrics and infectious melodies that promises not to disappoint
”Too damn good to miss” - The Village Voice, New York
”Major forces in the canon of contemporary Irish poetry” - The Galway Advertiser

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, text based

Love is never ordinary. Occasionally it can involve chairs. Join a sadistic, sarcastic, infatuated couple as they traverse the plains of imagination, and plumb the depths of comedy to come to a resolution over their seating arrangements. A hilarious, bizarre, and life-affirming comic escapade that will change they way you look at your furniture forever.

„I, for one, was utterly charmed by these clownish fools whose youthfully bizarre antics lit the stage like thousand-watt bulbs” - Irish Theatre Magazine

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre, little use of language

From the creators of „The Ugly Duchess” and winner of 2 critic's choice awards, „Circus Fire” is a brilliant and daring movement piece chronicling the 1944 Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus fire that claimed 168 lives. Using sheer physicality and music, the cast creates a unique piece of theatrical magic.

„Smartly directed and elegantly produced, Circus Fire is bold, imaginative and terribly clever” - Times Colonist „Worth seeing twice” - Monday Magazine

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all ages

Genre: Physical Theater, Text based but visual

Inspired by The Oresteia, Third Child explores the relationship between one’s responsibility to God, country and self. Orestes is compelled by the oracle at Delphi to return to his homeland and kill his mother. Duty and Destiny bind him to this act, but his allegiance to the god Apollo cannot cleanse his guilt. These forces confound and inspire the creation of this man who thinks he understands the consequences of his actions, fears those consequences, but is powerless to stop.

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults and Children 12 and over

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

Hailed by BLATT as „provacative, fun, intellectual and challenging”, Beautiful Confusion returns to Prague Fringe with Don Nigro’s Necropolis.

In an unamed city ravaged by war, an American reporter and a local woman share a night of passion. Necropolis is the story of the morning and the fine lines between guilt and innocence, justice and revenge, patriotism and terrorism in a city where life and death walk side by side.

„the plunge into ice water is stunning” – Broadway World

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre/Film, Text based but visual

A man and a woman live and work at a truck stop as prostitutes. Drug addicted and desperate they cling to each other. This play demands that you consider that love can exist outside your own perception. If a flower can grow through a crack in the pavement then maybe love can survive in Tim and Norm’s lean-to.

A dark and mysterious trip down the rabbit hole to the other side A subterranean shuffle under the suburban insane!!

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only/ contains strong language

Genre: Music

”...The performance of the young man on saturday night was like a fire burning in my soul. All of the sudden, out of nowhere, I saw my scarf wrapping around my neck and the windmill being built upon the Hogo-Fogo café's roof. The moves! The looks! The mimicry and the feeling of the composition! What he was saying felt like it was actually real. It was an outburst of the soul.... There is nothing to write about. You just have to see it!...” (J. Litassy)

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English (multilangual)

Age accessibility:

Genre: Theatre, text based

When a wealthy industrialist is murderd hard boiled hard drinking detective for hire Jack Kairo must use his wits and skills (both hopelessly inadequate) to stay one step ahead of a conspiracy that may involve weapons of mass destruction.

„Simon 'Toal is a comic gem” - Irish Times „Think Casablanca meets Police Squad via Monty Python, if you don't go see this show you'll regret it” - Irish Theatre Magazine
Nominated Best Male Performer (Dublin Fringe 2005).

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for age 15 and over

Genre: Physical Theatre, text based but visual

What do acrobatic briefcases, ”Heart of Darkness” and a clitoris named Rosebud have in common? If you answered ”Orson Welles”, then you're primed for The Probe. By age 25 Welles was a Broadway superstar and the hope of American cinema. By age 30 he was finished. So what happened? Told in the film-noir style that Welles pioneered, The Probe is a wickedly funny exploration of Welles' saga using the tools that he understood best: movement, music, magic and mystery.

Contains strange sex

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strange sex

Genre: Drama, text based

The Exception and The Rule details the journey of three men (A merchant, his guide, and his carrier) across a harsh Middle Eastern Desert, and the trial that ensues when the merchant mistakenly kills the carrier.

Will justice be served?

A play about the divisions between the rich and the poor, yet the essential relationship that exists between them, it also examines a world whose motto seems to be „shoot first and ask questions later”.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English/Portions in German and Czech

Age accessibility: Contains adult themes. Suitable for children 13 and up

Genre: Physical Theatre

There is no rest and certainly no peace in the macabre underworld inhabited by the undead until the mysteries of their sinister deaths are resolved. A vibrant underworld comes to life with powerful images, live music and theatrical animation with a contemporary touch. Sell out at Groundwork Festival, London, 2007. “Thought provoking, creative ! A must see“. - Prague Post, 2006: xxx anonymous) “There is nowhere this company is afraid to go... the best thing Ihave seen yet“. - BLATT, 2006: xxx anonymous

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for everybody

Genre: Theatre, text based

Five plays. Five days. All during your lunch hour! Sample the plays of some of the hottest young award-winning American and Czech playwrights in this unique FREE EVENT!

Plays include:

- Little Pitfall (Markéta Bláhová, CR)*
- The Girls‘ Room (Jan Antonín Pitínský, CR)*
- A Short PLay about Globalization, by Dominic Orlando (USA)
- Wallflower, by Deborah Stein (USA)
- Tales of Common Insanity, by Petr Zelenka (CR)*

*All Czech plays will be presented in ENGLISH translation
A FREE EVENT!

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, Text based but visual

This Budapest Fringe 2006 Best Actor Award show is a journey of the mind. One man, one woman, one chair, explore their perception of self as they jump between reality and fiction. Dealing with the known, the unknown, the safe, the unsafe, fighting to control and hide what others use to exploit about them. Echoing our trapped relationships, and how we manipulate ourselves and others by the roles we create and play.
”Comic, disturbing, verging on madness” - The Scotsman

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English with some Hungarian

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Text based but visual

Amelia, written and directed by Scena Theatre’s Artistic Director Robert McNamara, deals with the life and disappearance of the famed American aviatrix Amelia Earhart on her 1937 around-the-world flight. The play Amelia poses the questions as to her real mission. Was her disappearance due to error? Or was she a spy for the US? Earhart's disappearance is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th Century. No one knows to this day why she disappeared.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: All audiences (contains strong language)

Genre: Physical Theatre with verbal elements

Shocking, provocative and brilliant adaptation of Beckett’s short story. A young tramp meets a prostitute and from a chance meeting first love is born. But can its purity survive the cruelty and perversity of the world around them? Since 1987 First Love has been performed over 700 times and at over 20 festivals around the world, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (4 times!)

„..a true little gem” - Festival Guide, Edinburgh
„a weird vision of love and it leaves you feeling strangely moved” - What’s On, London

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Mime

Mime must go on! Modern mime. White mask. Birth versus tragedy. Expression of an expression. Shy comedy. Fall into imagination. Striptease of surrealism. Rhythm of silence. In spite of a sentence. Delicate emotion. Čechová. Vizváry. Miřenka. Radim. Theatro pantomissimo!

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: Non verbal

Age accessibility: Not only for Adults

Genre: Theatre, text based.

On a visit to a beautiful but tormented place, where the most basic of political struggles is being enacted, the narrator of Wallace Shawn's THE FEVER falls ill. Slumped on the floor of a hotel bathroom, the traveler is visited by cherished memories of a privileged past. But as the night wears on, the bathroom floor becomes a battlefield on which an internal struggle wages.

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults / older children

Genre: Theatre, Text based but visual

Little d-fects bring their ”fresh, easily accessible style” (Hairline, Edinburgh 2003) to the Prague Fringe Festival with ‘Tourist’ - a show about how dreams are shattered or fulfilled in an instant, and how our whole existence can turn on one fraction of a second. Olympic city Beijing is about to see a total eclipse and four people are wondering if their lives really revolve around one moment in this exhilarating and frenetic production.
”Truly exciting theatre” - Plymouth Herald, 2004

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 14 and over

Genre: Dark Comedy, text based but visual

Deep in the freezer, a popsicle caught in stasis is tormented by his own thoughts. His curiosity leaves him searching for a meaning outside the box. With a cartoon ambience, this two-man show has provoked and intrigued audiences with its imaginative genius and outlandish creativity.

Canadian adjudicator Allan Stratton calls this Beckett-esque fancy "a sheer delight"! Winner of six awards including Best Original Script for Theatrical Excellence and Best Show of LOAF 2005.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for General Audiences

Genre: Music

Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear Brazilian music at the Prague Fringe Festival. Join the charismatic American guitarist Peter Griggs for A Day In Prague, A Night In Brazil, and hear Latin jazz, bossa nova, samba and everything from Tom Jobim and The Buena Vista Social Club to Thelonious Monk and the Beatles.
In hundreds of concerts throughout Europe and the USA, Griggs has been recognized as an expressive guitarist with a delicate touch on his instrument.

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: With limited commentary in English

Age accessibility: Suitable for general audience

Genre: Theatre – Dance – Storytelling / Text based but visual

Tarantella, Tarantula is a unique, vital and contemporary exploration of dance, music and story telling - exuding a life force that speaks of continuity and passionate age old practices not alien to our modern needs. The performance weaves a delicate and poignant story.

Artship’s idiosyncratic style has been described by critics as being at the nexus of dance, theater, cinema and „zen.” „Actors-dancers bring lost art of physical storytelling to life” - San Francisco Chronical

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

They’ve found a picture. Could this picture spell the destruction of civilized society…? Or is it just the scribblings of a four year old? Who's telling the truth? What is the truth? And does the truth really matter any more? Les Enfants Terribles present their award-winning show… ‘The Infant’
***** - ”Savage satire…” - British Theatre Guide ***** - ”An amazing play…” – Hairline **** - ”Bitingly funny, deeply insightful” – Three Weeks **** - ”as elegant as it’s subversive” – Metro

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only and young adults – not suited to young children

Genre: Comedy/Physical Theatre/Dance Theatre

Dance madness consisting of two scenes and eight actors. In dance sketches full of the humour, tenderness and dance you might see kleptomaniac, nymphomaniac, phallocentric man, hysterical woman and others.
This project has been inspired by comedy dell‘arte, silent comedy, ballet, folklore, pantomime, jazz, swing, step, Mr. Bean, Monty Python and by the dreams of one’s own.

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: Non verbal

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy, text based

Stephen frost is joined by Richard Vranch, Steve Steen,Andy Smart, all regulars at Londons Comedy Store and all appeared on ”Who’s line is it anyway?”
Fast and furious comedy. You shout it out, they act it out. No safety net. ”These boys rock” - Time Out New York ”Far better than the tv show” - Daily Telegraph

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual with music

A powerful new show full of action, laugher, tears and the live sounds of classic soul and Motown based on the short stories of FX Toole and brought to life with a punch by Bruvvers; this is the story of a Tyneside lass who dreams of becoming a world class boxer.

„Laissez les bon temps rouler” „Let the good times roll” – Bruvvers Theatre Company

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for people over 12 - contains some strong language

Genre: Theatre – solo performance, text based

Drawing on Mary Shelley’s life and her novel, Frankenstein, and employing everything from creation myths to potato heads, this one-woman play explores reproductive technology, the act of creation, and one’s struggle to know who and what one is.
”This is a work of great empathy and invention, a model for monologists” ***** Edmonton Journal, Canada
”Intellectually rigorous, elegantly written and exquisitely performed” **** SEE Magazine, Canada

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility:

Genre: Music and Spoken Word

Bringing together four of Ireland's most exciting musicians and poets, ”The Voice and The Verse” is a montage of poignant lyrics and infectious melodies that promises not to disappoint
”Too damn good to miss” - The Village Voice, New York
”Major forces in the canon of contemporary Irish poetry” - The Galway Advertiser

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, text based

Love is never ordinary. Occasionally it can involve chairs. Join a sadistic, sarcastic, infatuated couple as they traverse the plains of imagination, and plumb the depths of comedy to come to a resolution over their seating arrangements. A hilarious, bizarre, and life-affirming comic escapade that will change they way you look at your furniture forever.

„I, for one, was utterly charmed by these clownish fools whose youthfully bizarre antics lit the stage like thousand-watt bulbs” - Irish Theatre Magazine

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre, little use of language

From the creators of „The Ugly Duchess” and winner of 2 critic's choice awards, „Circus Fire” is a brilliant and daring movement piece chronicling the 1944 Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus fire that claimed 168 lives. Using sheer physicality and music, the cast creates a unique piece of theatrical magic.

„Smartly directed and elegantly produced, Circus Fire is bold, imaginative and terribly clever” - Times Colonist „Worth seeing twice” - Monday Magazine

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all ages

Genre: Comedy, Text based

”Brilliantly outrageous” - Scotsman ”Dangerous” - The Guardian ”Rude, crude and out of line” ”Hilarious and endearing” - Prague Post ”Sleeker and wittier than ever before...there can be few comics who make an art of insulting their audience while simultaneously seducing them. A MUST SEE!” - The Stage
Really just a small town psychopath with a handgun and a few grudges to settle, further accolades for Capurro include: ”He's evil and should be forced to leave the country” - The Daily Mirror

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Physical Theater, Text based but visual

Inspired by The Oresteia, Third Child explores the relationship between one’s responsibility to God, country and self. Orestes is compelled by the oracle at Delphi to return to his homeland and kill his mother. Duty and Destiny bind him to this act, but his allegiance to the god Apollo cannot cleanse his guilt. These forces confound and inspire the creation of this man who thinks he understands the consequences of his actions, fears those consequences, but is powerless to stop.

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults and Children 12 and over

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

Hailed by BLATT as „provacative, fun, intellectual and challenging”, Beautiful Confusion returns to Prague Fringe with Don Nigro’s Necropolis.

In an unamed city ravaged by war, an American reporter and a local woman share a night of passion. Necropolis is the story of the morning and the fine lines between guilt and innocence, justice and revenge, patriotism and terrorism in a city where life and death walk side by side.

„the plunge into ice water is stunning” – Broadway World

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre/Film, Text based but visual

A man and a woman live and work at a truck stop as prostitutes. Drug addicted and desperate they cling to each other. This play demands that you consider that love can exist outside your own perception. If a flower can grow through a crack in the pavement then maybe love can survive in Tim and Norm’s lean-to.

A dark and mysterious trip down the rabbit hole to the other side A subterranean shuffle under the suburban insane!!

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only/ contains strong language

Genre: Music

”...The performance of the young man on saturday night was like a fire burning in my soul. All of the sudden, out of nowhere, I saw my scarf wrapping around my neck and the windmill being built upon the Hogo-Fogo café's roof. The moves! The looks! The mimicry and the feeling of the composition! What he was saying felt like it was actually real. It was an outburst of the soul.... There is nothing to write about. You just have to see it!...” (J. Litassy)

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English (multilangual)

Age accessibility:

Genre: Theatre, text based

When a wealthy industrialist is murderd hard boiled hard drinking detective for hire Jack Kairo must use his wits and skills (both hopelessly inadequate) to stay one step ahead of a conspiracy that may involve weapons of mass destruction.

„Simon 'Toal is a comic gem” - Irish Times „Think Casablanca meets Police Squad via Monty Python, if you don't go see this show you'll regret it” - Irish Theatre Magazine
Nominated Best Male Performer (Dublin Fringe 2005).

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for age 15 and over

Genre: Physical Theatre, text based but visual

What do acrobatic briefcases, ”Heart of Darkness” and a clitoris named Rosebud have in common? If you answered ”Orson Welles”, then you're primed for The Probe. By age 25 Welles was a Broadway superstar and the hope of American cinema. By age 30 he was finished. So what happened? Told in the film-noir style that Welles pioneered, The Probe is a wickedly funny exploration of Welles' saga using the tools that he understood best: movement, music, magic and mystery.

Contains strange sex

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strange sex

Genre: Drama, text based

The Exception and The Rule details the journey of three men (A merchant, his guide, and his carrier) across a harsh Middle Eastern Desert, and the trial that ensues when the merchant mistakenly kills the carrier.

Will justice be served?

A play about the divisions between the rich and the poor, yet the essential relationship that exists between them, it also examines a world whose motto seems to be „shoot first and ask questions later”.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English/Portions in German and Czech

Age accessibility: Contains adult themes. Suitable for children 13 and up

Genre: Physical Theatre

There is no rest and certainly no peace in the macabre underworld inhabited by the undead until the mysteries of their sinister deaths are resolved. A vibrant underworld comes to life with powerful images, live music and theatrical animation with a contemporary touch. Sell out at Groundwork Festival, London, 2007. “Thought provoking, creative ! A must see“. - Prague Post, 2006: xxx anonymous) “There is nowhere this company is afraid to go... the best thing Ihave seen yet“. - BLATT, 2006: xxx anonymous

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for everybody

Genre: Theatre, text based

Five plays. Five days. All during your lunch hour! Sample the plays of some of the hottest young award-winning American and Czech playwrights in this unique FREE EVENT!

Plays include:

- Little Pitfall (Markéta Bláhová, CR)*
- The Girls‘ Room (Jan Antonín Pitínský, CR)*
- A Short PLay about Globalization, by Dominic Orlando (USA)
- Wallflower, by Deborah Stein (USA)
- Tales of Common Insanity, by Petr Zelenka (CR)*

*All Czech plays will be presented in ENGLISH translation
A FREE EVENT!

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, Text based but visual

This Budapest Fringe 2006 Best Actor Award show is a journey of the mind. One man, one woman, one chair, explore their perception of self as they jump between reality and fiction. Dealing with the known, the unknown, the safe, the unsafe, fighting to control and hide what others use to exploit about them. Echoing our trapped relationships, and how we manipulate ourselves and others by the roles we create and play.
”Comic, disturbing, verging on madness” - The Scotsman

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English with some Hungarian

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Text based but visual

Amelia, written and directed by Scena Theatre’s Artistic Director Robert McNamara, deals with the life and disappearance of the famed American aviatrix Amelia Earhart on her 1937 around-the-world flight. The play Amelia poses the questions as to her real mission. Was her disappearance due to error? Or was she a spy for the US? Earhart's disappearance is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th Century. No one knows to this day why she disappeared.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: All audiences (contains strong language)

Genre: Physical Theatre with verbal elements

Shocking, provocative and brilliant adaptation of Beckett’s short story. A young tramp meets a prostitute and from a chance meeting first love is born. But can its purity survive the cruelty and perversity of the world around them? Since 1987 First Love has been performed over 700 times and at over 20 festivals around the world, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (4 times!)

„..a true little gem” - Festival Guide, Edinburgh
„a weird vision of love and it leaves you feeling strangely moved” - What’s On, London

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Mime

Mime must go on! Modern mime. White mask. Birth versus tragedy. Expression of an expression. Shy comedy. Fall into imagination. Striptease of surrealism. Rhythm of silence. In spite of a sentence. Delicate emotion. Čechová. Vizváry. Miřenka. Radim. Theatro pantomissimo!

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: Non verbal

Age accessibility: Not only for Adults

Genre: Theatre, text based.

On a visit to a beautiful but tormented place, where the most basic of political struggles is being enacted, the narrator of Wallace Shawn's THE FEVER falls ill. Slumped on the floor of a hotel bathroom, the traveler is visited by cherished memories of a privileged past. But as the night wears on, the bathroom floor becomes a battlefield on which an internal struggle wages.

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults / older children

Genre: Theatre, Text based but visual

Little d-fects bring their ”fresh, easily accessible style” (Hairline, Edinburgh 2003) to the Prague Fringe Festival with ‘Tourist’ - a show about how dreams are shattered or fulfilled in an instant, and how our whole existence can turn on one fraction of a second. Olympic city Beijing is about to see a total eclipse and four people are wondering if their lives really revolve around one moment in this exhilarating and frenetic production.
”Truly exciting theatre” - Plymouth Herald, 2004

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 14 and over

Genre: Dark Comedy, text based but visual

Deep in the freezer, a popsicle caught in stasis is tormented by his own thoughts. His curiosity leaves him searching for a meaning outside the box. With a cartoon ambience, this two-man show has provoked and intrigued audiences with its imaginative genius and outlandish creativity.

Canadian adjudicator Allan Stratton calls this Beckett-esque fancy "a sheer delight"! Winner of six awards including Best Original Script for Theatrical Excellence and Best Show of LOAF 2005.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for General Audiences

Genre: Music

Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear Brazilian music at the Prague Fringe Festival. Join the charismatic American guitarist Peter Griggs for A Day In Prague, A Night In Brazil, and hear Latin jazz, bossa nova, samba and everything from Tom Jobim and The Buena Vista Social Club to Thelonious Monk and the Beatles.
In hundreds of concerts throughout Europe and the USA, Griggs has been recognized as an expressive guitarist with a delicate touch on his instrument.

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: With limited commentary in English

Age accessibility: Suitable for general audience

Genre: Theatre – Dance – Storytelling / Text based but visual

Tarantella, Tarantula is a unique, vital and contemporary exploration of dance, music and story telling - exuding a life force that speaks of continuity and passionate age old practices not alien to our modern needs. The performance weaves a delicate and poignant story.

Artship’s idiosyncratic style has been described by critics as being at the nexus of dance, theater, cinema and „zen.” „Actors-dancers bring lost art of physical storytelling to life” - San Francisco Chronical

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

They’ve found a picture. Could this picture spell the destruction of civilized society…? Or is it just the scribblings of a four year old? Who's telling the truth? What is the truth? And does the truth really matter any more? Les Enfants Terribles present their award-winning show… ‘The Infant’
***** - ”Savage satire…” - British Theatre Guide ***** - ”An amazing play…” – Hairline **** - ”Bitingly funny, deeply insightful” – Three Weeks **** - ”as elegant as it’s subversive” – Metro

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only and young adults – not suited to young children

Genre: Comedy/Physical Theatre/Dance Theatre

Dance madness consisting of two scenes and eight actors. In dance sketches full of the humour, tenderness and dance you might see kleptomaniac, nymphomaniac, phallocentric man, hysterical woman and others.
This project has been inspired by comedy dell‘arte, silent comedy, ballet, folklore, pantomime, jazz, swing, step, Mr. Bean, Monty Python and by the dreams of one’s own.

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: Non verbal

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy, text based

Stephen frost is joined by Richard Vranch, Steve Steen,Andy Smart, all regulars at Londons Comedy Store and all appeared on ”Who’s line is it anyway?”
Fast and furious comedy. You shout it out, they act it out. No safety net. ”These boys rock” - Time Out New York ”Far better than the tv show” - Daily Telegraph

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual with music

A powerful new show full of action, laugher, tears and the live sounds of classic soul and Motown based on the short stories of FX Toole and brought to life with a punch by Bruvvers; this is the story of a Tyneside lass who dreams of becoming a world class boxer.

„Laissez les bon temps rouler” „Let the good times roll” – Bruvvers Theatre Company

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for people over 12 - contains some strong language

Genre: Music

Jazz/cabaret chanteuse Maria Tecce returns to Prague after a sold-out run at last year's Fringe Festiva Praha. Sensuous, smoldering, and elegant, this Italian-American combines jazz and the theatrical spice of cabaret with style, glamor, and magnetic allure....

„Kill for tickets if you have to” – The Prague Post

Theatre: Baráčnická rychta

Language: In English

Age accessibility:

Genre: Theatre – solo performance, text based

Drawing on Mary Shelley’s life and her novel, Frankenstein, and employing everything from creation myths to potato heads, this one-woman play explores reproductive technology, the act of creation, and one’s struggle to know who and what one is.
”This is a work of great empathy and invention, a model for monologists” ***** Edmonton Journal, Canada
”Intellectually rigorous, elegantly written and exquisitely performed” **** SEE Magazine, Canada

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility:

Genre: Music and Spoken Word

Bringing together four of Ireland's most exciting musicians and poets, ”The Voice and The Verse” is a montage of poignant lyrics and infectious melodies that promises not to disappoint
”Too damn good to miss” - The Village Voice, New York
”Major forces in the canon of contemporary Irish poetry” - The Galway Advertiser

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, text based

Love is never ordinary. Occasionally it can involve chairs. Join a sadistic, sarcastic, infatuated couple as they traverse the plains of imagination, and plumb the depths of comedy to come to a resolution over their seating arrangements. A hilarious, bizarre, and life-affirming comic escapade that will change they way you look at your furniture forever.

„I, for one, was utterly charmed by these clownish fools whose youthfully bizarre antics lit the stage like thousand-watt bulbs” - Irish Theatre Magazine

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre, little use of language

From the creators of „The Ugly Duchess” and winner of 2 critic's choice awards, „Circus Fire” is a brilliant and daring movement piece chronicling the 1944 Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus fire that claimed 168 lives. Using sheer physicality and music, the cast creates a unique piece of theatrical magic.

„Smartly directed and elegantly produced, Circus Fire is bold, imaginative and terribly clever” - Times Colonist „Worth seeing twice” - Monday Magazine

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all ages

Genre: Comedy/Theatre, text based

Hilarious and moving, Little Johnny is the tale of one Scot on a wild quest to find love! He’s become so desperate that he’s on his very own Confessions tour (just like his idol Madonna) travelling across Europe to the Prague Festival Fringe to forget Mr Chilli-Con-Carne, Mr Quality and Mr First Time. Join him as he looks for Mr Right Now!
”Charming… genuinely funny… left the audience cheering” - The Scotsman ”A little ray of light that shimmers” - The Herald

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only – contains strong language

Genre: Physical Theater, Text based but visual

Inspired by The Oresteia, Third Child explores the relationship between one’s responsibility to God, country and self. Orestes is compelled by the oracle at Delphi to return to his homeland and kill his mother. Duty and Destiny bind him to this act, but his allegiance to the god Apollo cannot cleanse his guilt. These forces confound and inspire the creation of this man who thinks he understands the consequences of his actions, fears those consequences, but is powerless to stop.

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults and Children 12 and over

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

Hailed by BLATT as „provacative, fun, intellectual and challenging”, Beautiful Confusion returns to Prague Fringe with Don Nigro’s Necropolis.

In an unamed city ravaged by war, an American reporter and a local woman share a night of passion. Necropolis is the story of the morning and the fine lines between guilt and innocence, justice and revenge, patriotism and terrorism in a city where life and death walk side by side.

„the plunge into ice water is stunning” – Broadway World

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre/Film, Text based but visual

A man and a woman live and work at a truck stop as prostitutes. Drug addicted and desperate they cling to each other. This play demands that you consider that love can exist outside your own perception. If a flower can grow through a crack in the pavement then maybe love can survive in Tim and Norm’s lean-to.

A dark and mysterious trip down the rabbit hole to the other side A subterranean shuffle under the suburban insane!!

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only/ contains strong language

Genre: Music

”...The performance of the young man on saturday night was like a fire burning in my soul. All of the sudden, out of nowhere, I saw my scarf wrapping around my neck and the windmill being built upon the Hogo-Fogo café's roof. The moves! The looks! The mimicry and the feeling of the composition! What he was saying felt like it was actually real. It was an outburst of the soul.... There is nothing to write about. You just have to see it!...” (J. Litassy)

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English (multilangual)

Age accessibility:

Genre: Theatre, text based

When a wealthy industrialist is murderd hard boiled hard drinking detective for hire Jack Kairo must use his wits and skills (both hopelessly inadequate) to stay one step ahead of a conspiracy that may involve weapons of mass destruction.

„Simon 'Toal is a comic gem” - Irish Times „Think Casablanca meets Police Squad via Monty Python, if you don't go see this show you'll regret it” - Irish Theatre Magazine
Nominated Best Male Performer (Dublin Fringe 2005).

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for age 15 and over

Genre: Physical Theatre, text based but visual

What do acrobatic briefcases, ”Heart of Darkness” and a clitoris named Rosebud have in common? If you answered ”Orson Welles”, then you're primed for The Probe. By age 25 Welles was a Broadway superstar and the hope of American cinema. By age 30 he was finished. So what happened? Told in the film-noir style that Welles pioneered, The Probe is a wickedly funny exploration of Welles' saga using the tools that he understood best: movement, music, magic and mystery.

Contains strange sex

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strange sex

Genre: Drama, text based

The Exception and The Rule details the journey of three men (A merchant, his guide, and his carrier) across a harsh Middle Eastern Desert, and the trial that ensues when the merchant mistakenly kills the carrier.

Will justice be served?

A play about the divisions between the rich and the poor, yet the essential relationship that exists between them, it also examines a world whose motto seems to be „shoot first and ask questions later”.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English/Portions in German and Czech

Age accessibility: Contains adult themes. Suitable for children 13 and up

Genre: Physical Theatre

There is no rest and certainly no peace in the macabre underworld inhabited by the undead until the mysteries of their sinister deaths are resolved. A vibrant underworld comes to life with powerful images, live music and theatrical animation with a contemporary touch. Sell out at Groundwork Festival, London, 2007. “Thought provoking, creative ! A must see“. - Prague Post, 2006: xxx anonymous) “There is nowhere this company is afraid to go... the best thing Ihave seen yet“. - BLATT, 2006: xxx anonymous

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for everybody

Genre: Presentation/Debate

A presentation by Paul Gudgin, Director of The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (EFF), Ladislav Pflimpfl, Director of the Czech Cultural Centre (UK) and Steve Gove, Director and founder of the Prague Fringe Festival. The panel will discuss opportunities for independent theatre companies and practitioners to achieve the most from their festival experiences. Case studies, best practice examples, advice and useful ideas will be the order of the day and an audience Q & A session will round up the event.

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English (with Czech translation)

Age accessibility: Suitable for producers, theatre directors, art managers and professionals as well as practitioners, performers and independent cultural entrepreneurs.

Genre: Theatre, Text based but visual

This Budapest Fringe 2006 Best Actor Award show is a journey of the mind. One man, one woman, one chair, explore their perception of self as they jump between reality and fiction. Dealing with the known, the unknown, the safe, the unsafe, fighting to control and hide what others use to exploit about them. Echoing our trapped relationships, and how we manipulate ourselves and others by the roles we create and play.
”Comic, disturbing, verging on madness” - The Scotsman

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English with some Hungarian

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Text based but visual

Amelia, written and directed by Scena Theatre’s Artistic Director Robert McNamara, deals with the life and disappearance of the famed American aviatrix Amelia Earhart on her 1937 around-the-world flight. The play Amelia poses the questions as to her real mission. Was her disappearance due to error? Or was she a spy for the US? Earhart's disappearance is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th Century. No one knows to this day why she disappeared.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: All audiences (contains strong language)

Genre: Physical Theatre with verbal elements

Shocking, provocative and brilliant adaptation of Beckett’s short story. A young tramp meets a prostitute and from a chance meeting first love is born. But can its purity survive the cruelty and perversity of the world around them? Since 1987 First Love has been performed over 700 times and at over 20 festivals around the world, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (4 times!)

„..a true little gem” - Festival Guide, Edinburgh
„a weird vision of love and it leaves you feeling strangely moved” - What’s On, London

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Mime

Mime must go on! Modern mime. White mask. Birth versus tragedy. Expression of an expression. Shy comedy. Fall into imagination. Striptease of surrealism. Rhythm of silence. In spite of a sentence. Delicate emotion. Čechová. Vizváry. Miřenka. Radim. Theatro pantomissimo!

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: Non verbal

Age accessibility: Not only for Adults

Genre: Theatre, text based.

On a visit to a beautiful but tormented place, where the most basic of political struggles is being enacted, the narrator of Wallace Shawn's THE FEVER falls ill. Slumped on the floor of a hotel bathroom, the traveler is visited by cherished memories of a privileged past. But as the night wears on, the bathroom floor becomes a battlefield on which an internal struggle wages.

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults / older children

Genre: Theatre, Text based but visual

Little d-fects bring their ”fresh, easily accessible style” (Hairline, Edinburgh 2003) to the Prague Fringe Festival with ‘Tourist’ - a show about how dreams are shattered or fulfilled in an instant, and how our whole existence can turn on one fraction of a second. Olympic city Beijing is about to see a total eclipse and four people are wondering if their lives really revolve around one moment in this exhilarating and frenetic production.
”Truly exciting theatre” - Plymouth Herald, 2004

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 14 and over

Genre: Dark Comedy, text based but visual

Deep in the freezer, a popsicle caught in stasis is tormented by his own thoughts. His curiosity leaves him searching for a meaning outside the box. With a cartoon ambience, this two-man show has provoked and intrigued audiences with its imaginative genius and outlandish creativity.

Canadian adjudicator Allan Stratton calls this Beckett-esque fancy "a sheer delight"! Winner of six awards including Best Original Script for Theatrical Excellence and Best Show of LOAF 2005.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for General Audiences

Genre: Music

Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear Brazilian music at the Prague Fringe Festival. Join the charismatic American guitarist Peter Griggs for A Day In Prague, A Night In Brazil, and hear Latin jazz, bossa nova, samba and everything from Tom Jobim and The Buena Vista Social Club to Thelonious Monk and the Beatles.
In hundreds of concerts throughout Europe and the USA, Griggs has been recognized as an expressive guitarist with a delicate touch on his instrument.

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: With limited commentary in English

Age accessibility: Suitable for general audience

Genre: Theatre – Dance – Storytelling / Text based but visual

Tarantella, Tarantula is a unique, vital and contemporary exploration of dance, music and story telling - exuding a life force that speaks of continuity and passionate age old practices not alien to our modern needs. The performance weaves a delicate and poignant story.

Artship’s idiosyncratic style has been described by critics as being at the nexus of dance, theater, cinema and „zen.” „Actors-dancers bring lost art of physical storytelling to life” - San Francisco Chronical

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

They’ve found a picture. Could this picture spell the destruction of civilized society…? Or is it just the scribblings of a four year old? Who's telling the truth? What is the truth? And does the truth really matter any more? Les Enfants Terribles present their award-winning show… ‘The Infant’
***** - ”Savage satire…” - British Theatre Guide ***** - ”An amazing play…” – Hairline **** - ”Bitingly funny, deeply insightful” – Three Weeks **** - ”as elegant as it’s subversive” – Metro

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only and young adults – not suited to young children

Genre: Concert

Ballads with groovy acoustic violin, the monumental sound of wind instruments' and Latin-Americans rhythms combine with elements of funk, jazz and minimalism - totally original!

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language:

Age accessibility:

Genre: Total Theatre – Word / Body / Music

Celebrate the Extraordinary Journey of LOVE – through LIFE’S many hues – Joy, Sorrow, Caprice, Irony, Death, Freedom and Laughter
”A Timeless and Memorable Performance” – Edinburgh Festival 2004 ”Brilliant, Very Powerful, Very Moving” – Dublin 2005 This ”Tour de Force” is based on the writings of ”The Greatest Mystic Poet of any Age” – Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
UNESCO has dedicated 2007 as ”The International Year Of Mevlana Rumi to promote inter – faith dialogue”

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Not suitable for children below 10 years

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual with music

A powerful new show full of action, laugher, tears and the live sounds of classic soul and Motown based on the short stories of FX Toole and brought to life with a punch by Bruvvers; this is the story of a Tyneside lass who dreams of becoming a world class boxer.

„Laissez les bon temps rouler” „Let the good times roll” – Bruvvers Theatre Company

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for people over 12 - contains some strong language

Genre: Music

Jazz/cabaret chanteuse Maria Tecce returns to Prague after a sold-out run at last year's Fringe Festiva Praha. Sensuous, smoldering, and elegant, this Italian-American combines jazz and the theatrical spice of cabaret with style, glamor, and magnetic allure....

„Kill for tickets if you have to” – The Prague Post

Theatre: Baráčnická rychta

Language: In English

Age accessibility:

Genre: Theatre – solo performance, text based

Drawing on Mary Shelley’s life and her novel, Frankenstein, and employing everything from creation myths to potato heads, this one-woman play explores reproductive technology, the act of creation, and one’s struggle to know who and what one is.
”This is a work of great empathy and invention, a model for monologists” ***** Edmonton Journal, Canada
”Intellectually rigorous, elegantly written and exquisitely performed” **** SEE Magazine, Canada

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility:

Genre: Music and Spoken Word

Bringing together four of Ireland's most exciting musicians and poets, ”The Voice and The Verse” is a montage of poignant lyrics and infectious melodies that promises not to disappoint
”Too damn good to miss” - The Village Voice, New York
”Major forces in the canon of contemporary Irish poetry” - The Galway Advertiser

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, text based

Love is never ordinary. Occasionally it can involve chairs. Join a sadistic, sarcastic, infatuated couple as they traverse the plains of imagination, and plumb the depths of comedy to come to a resolution over their seating arrangements. A hilarious, bizarre, and life-affirming comic escapade that will change they way you look at your furniture forever.

„I, for one, was utterly charmed by these clownish fools whose youthfully bizarre antics lit the stage like thousand-watt bulbs” - Irish Theatre Magazine

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre, little use of language

From the creators of „The Ugly Duchess” and winner of 2 critic's choice awards, „Circus Fire” is a brilliant and daring movement piece chronicling the 1944 Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus fire that claimed 168 lives. Using sheer physicality and music, the cast creates a unique piece of theatrical magic.

„Smartly directed and elegantly produced, Circus Fire is bold, imaginative and terribly clever” - Times Colonist „Worth seeing twice” - Monday Magazine

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all ages

Genre: Comedy/Theatre, text based

Hilarious and moving, Little Johnny is the tale of one Scot on a wild quest to find love! He’s become so desperate that he’s on his very own Confessions tour (just like his idol Madonna) travelling across Europe to the Prague Festival Fringe to forget Mr Chilli-Con-Carne, Mr Quality and Mr First Time. Join him as he looks for Mr Right Now!
”Charming… genuinely funny… left the audience cheering” - The Scotsman ”A little ray of light that shimmers” - The Herald

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only – contains strong language

Genre: Physical Theater, Text based but visual

Inspired by The Oresteia, Third Child explores the relationship between one’s responsibility to God, country and self. Orestes is compelled by the oracle at Delphi to return to his homeland and kill his mother. Duty and Destiny bind him to this act, but his allegiance to the god Apollo cannot cleanse his guilt. These forces confound and inspire the creation of this man who thinks he understands the consequences of his actions, fears those consequences, but is powerless to stop.

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults and Children 12 and over

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

Hailed by BLATT as „provacative, fun, intellectual and challenging”, Beautiful Confusion returns to Prague Fringe with Don Nigro’s Necropolis.

In an unamed city ravaged by war, an American reporter and a local woman share a night of passion. Necropolis is the story of the morning and the fine lines between guilt and innocence, justice and revenge, patriotism and terrorism in a city where life and death walk side by side.

„the plunge into ice water is stunning” – Broadway World

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre/Film, Text based but visual

A man and a woman live and work at a truck stop as prostitutes. Drug addicted and desperate they cling to each other. This play demands that you consider that love can exist outside your own perception. If a flower can grow through a crack in the pavement then maybe love can survive in Tim and Norm’s lean-to.

A dark and mysterious trip down the rabbit hole to the other side A subterranean shuffle under the suburban insane!!

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only/ contains strong language

Genre: Music

”...The performance of the young man on saturday night was like a fire burning in my soul. All of the sudden, out of nowhere, I saw my scarf wrapping around my neck and the windmill being built upon the Hogo-Fogo café's roof. The moves! The looks! The mimicry and the feeling of the composition! What he was saying felt like it was actually real. It was an outburst of the soul.... There is nothing to write about. You just have to see it!...” (J. Litassy)

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English (multilangual)

Age accessibility:

Genre: Theatre, text based

When a wealthy industrialist is murderd hard boiled hard drinking detective for hire Jack Kairo must use his wits and skills (both hopelessly inadequate) to stay one step ahead of a conspiracy that may involve weapons of mass destruction.

„Simon 'Toal is a comic gem” - Irish Times „Think Casablanca meets Police Squad via Monty Python, if you don't go see this show you'll regret it” - Irish Theatre Magazine
Nominated Best Male Performer (Dublin Fringe 2005).

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for age 15 and over

Genre: Physical Theatre, text based but visual

What do acrobatic briefcases, ”Heart of Darkness” and a clitoris named Rosebud have in common? If you answered ”Orson Welles”, then you're primed for The Probe. By age 25 Welles was a Broadway superstar and the hope of American cinema. By age 30 he was finished. So what happened? Told in the film-noir style that Welles pioneered, The Probe is a wickedly funny exploration of Welles' saga using the tools that he understood best: movement, music, magic and mystery.

Contains strange sex

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strange sex

Genre: Drama, text based

The Exception and The Rule details the journey of three men (A merchant, his guide, and his carrier) across a harsh Middle Eastern Desert, and the trial that ensues when the merchant mistakenly kills the carrier.

Will justice be served?

A play about the divisions between the rich and the poor, yet the essential relationship that exists between them, it also examines a world whose motto seems to be „shoot first and ask questions later”.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English/Portions in German and Czech

Age accessibility: Contains adult themes. Suitable for children 13 and up

Genre: Physical Theatre

There is no rest and certainly no peace in the macabre underworld inhabited by the undead until the mysteries of their sinister deaths are resolved. A vibrant underworld comes to life with powerful images, live music and theatrical animation with a contemporary touch. Sell out at Groundwork Festival, London, 2007. “Thought provoking, creative ! A must see“. - Prague Post, 2006: xxx anonymous) “There is nowhere this company is afraid to go... the best thing Ihave seen yet“. - BLATT, 2006: xxx anonymous

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for everybody

Genre: Comedy, text based

”Brilliantly outrageous” - Scotsman ”Dangerous” - The Guardian ”Rude, crude and out of line” ”Hilarious and endearing” - Prague Post ”Sleeker and wittier than ever before...there can be few comics who make an art of insulting their audience while simultaneously seducing them. A MUST SEE!” - The Stage

Really just a small town psychopath with a handgun and a few grudges to settle, further accolades for Capurro include: ”He's evil and should be forced to leave the country” - The Daily Mirror

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, text based

Five plays. Five days. All during your lunch hour! Sample the plays of some of the hottest young award-winning American and Czech playwrights in this unique FREE EVENT!

Plays include:

- Little Pitfall (Markéta Bláhová, CR)*
- The Girls‘ Room (Jan Antonín Pitínský, CR)*
- A Short PLay about Globalization, by Dominic Orlando (USA)
- Wallflower, by Deborah Stein (USA)
- Tales of Common Insanity, by Petr Zelenka (CR)*

*All Czech plays will be presented in ENGLISH translation
A FREE EVENT!

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Children’s Theatre, very visual and with music

Chrissy is noisy and Chrissy is loud, he shouts and sings all day, its „me, me, me” with Chrissy! A meeting at the crossroads might just change all that…

Bruvvers capture and stir the imagination of children, here their stories are about trying hard, working things out and being kind to others …look out for the Hare and the tortoise and the Ant and the Grasshopper!

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: With very simple English - educational and fun

Age accessibility: This play is very suitable for nurseries, playgroups, infant schools and families

For children aged 3 - 7

Genre: Theatre, Text based but visual

This Budapest Fringe 2006 Best Actor Award show is a journey of the mind. One man, one woman, one chair, explore their perception of self as they jump between reality and fiction. Dealing with the known, the unknown, the safe, the unsafe, fighting to control and hide what others use to exploit about them. Echoing our trapped relationships, and how we manipulate ourselves and others by the roles we create and play.
”Comic, disturbing, verging on madness” - The Scotsman

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English with some Hungarian

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Text based but visual

Amelia, written and directed by Scena Theatre’s Artistic Director Robert McNamara, deals with the life and disappearance of the famed American aviatrix Amelia Earhart on her 1937 around-the-world flight. The play Amelia poses the questions as to her real mission. Was her disappearance due to error? Or was she a spy for the US? Earhart's disappearance is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th Century. No one knows to this day why she disappeared.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: All audiences (contains strong language)

Genre: One-man show, text-based

Kevin wants to stage a show but can't seem to escape his bedroom. His rehearsals become monolgues on sleeping with your students while drinking alone, bargain hunting for abortion clinics, chastising the comatose while enjoying fresh produce, hijacking funerals in search of ”spiritual DNA” and merging salsa/aerobics with psychotherapy.
”Utterly magnetic …..extremely funny…..pure theatrical gold” - GCN (Dublin)
”Has the necessary charisma” -The Scotsman (Edinburgh)
”Dark humor . . .goes interesting places” - nytheatre.com

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre with verbal elements

Shocking, provocative and brilliant adaptation of Beckett’s short story. A young tramp meets a prostitute and from a chance meeting first love is born. But can its purity survive the cruelty and perversity of the world around them? Since 1987 First Love has been performed over 700 times and at over 20 festivals around the world, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (4 times!)

„..a true little gem” - Festival Guide, Edinburgh
„a weird vision of love and it leaves you feeling strangely moved” - What’s On, London

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Mime

Mime must go on! Modern mime. White mask. Birth versus tragedy. Expression of an expression. Shy comedy. Fall into imagination. Striptease of surrealism. Rhythm of silence. In spite of a sentence. Delicate emotion. Čechová. Vizváry. Miřenka. Radim. Theatro pantomissimo!

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: Non verbal

Age accessibility: Not only for Adults

Genre: Theatre, text based.

On a visit to a beautiful but tormented place, where the most basic of political struggles is being enacted, the narrator of Wallace Shawn's THE FEVER falls ill. Slumped on the floor of a hotel bathroom, the traveler is visited by cherished memories of a privileged past. But as the night wears on, the bathroom floor becomes a battlefield on which an internal struggle wages.

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults / older children

Genre: Theatre, Text based but visual

Little d-fects bring their ”fresh, easily accessible style” (Hairline, Edinburgh 2003) to the Prague Fringe Festival with ‘Tourist’ - a show about how dreams are shattered or fulfilled in an instant, and how our whole existence can turn on one fraction of a second. Olympic city Beijing is about to see a total eclipse and four people are wondering if their lives really revolve around one moment in this exhilarating and frenetic production.
”Truly exciting theatre” - Plymouth Herald, 2004

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 14 and over

Genre: Dark Comedy, text based but visual

Deep in the freezer, a popsicle caught in stasis is tormented by his own thoughts. His curiosity leaves him searching for a meaning outside the box. With a cartoon ambience, this two-man show has provoked and intrigued audiences with its imaginative genius and outlandish creativity.

Canadian adjudicator Allan Stratton calls this Beckett-esque fancy "a sheer delight"! Winner of six awards including Best Original Script for Theatrical Excellence and Best Show of LOAF 2005.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for General Audiences

Genre: Music

Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear Brazilian music at the Prague Fringe Festival. Join the charismatic American guitarist Peter Griggs for A Day In Prague, A Night In Brazil, and hear Latin jazz, bossa nova, samba and everything from Tom Jobim and The Buena Vista Social Club to Thelonious Monk and the Beatles.
In hundreds of concerts throughout Europe and the USA, Griggs has been recognized as an expressive guitarist with a delicate touch on his instrument.

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: With limited commentary in English

Age accessibility: Suitable for general audience

Genre: Theatre – Dance – Storytelling / Text based but visual

Tarantella, Tarantula is a unique, vital and contemporary exploration of dance, music and story telling - exuding a life force that speaks of continuity and passionate age old practices not alien to our modern needs. The performance weaves a delicate and poignant story.

Artship’s idiosyncratic style has been described by critics as being at the nexus of dance, theater, cinema and „zen.” „Actors-dancers bring lost art of physical storytelling to life” - San Francisco Chronical

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

They’ve found a picture. Could this picture spell the destruction of civilized society…? Or is it just the scribblings of a four year old? Who's telling the truth? What is the truth? And does the truth really matter any more? Les Enfants Terribles present their award-winning show… ‘The Infant’
***** - ”Savage satire…” - British Theatre Guide ***** - ”An amazing play…” – Hairline **** - ”Bitingly funny, deeply insightful” – Three Weeks **** - ”as elegant as it’s subversive” – Metro

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only and young adults – not suited to young children

Genre: Jazz Pop & More

Featuring the vocals of Marketa Foukalova and hot on the heals of their collaboration with English acid jazz band Incognito, Prague's Madfinger are young instrumental musicians, with influences from contemporary music through jazz, through funk and pop presenting an original repertoire based instrumental efficiency and emotion

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language:

Age accessibility:

Genre: Total Theatre – Word / Body / Music

Celebrate the Extraordinary Journey of LOVE – through LIFE’S many hues – Joy, Sorrow, Caprice, Irony, Death, Freedom and Laughter
”A Timeless and Memorable Performance” – Edinburgh Festival 2004 ”Brilliant, Very Powerful, Very Moving” – Dublin 2005 This ”Tour de Force” is based on the writings of ”The Greatest Mystic Poet of any Age” – Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
UNESCO has dedicated 2007 as ”The International Year Of Mevlana Rumi to promote inter – faith dialogue”

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Not suitable for children below 10 years

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual with music

A powerful new show full of action, laugher, tears and the live sounds of classic soul and Motown based on the short stories of FX Toole and brought to life with a punch by Bruvvers; this is the story of a Tyneside lass who dreams of becoming a world class boxer.

„Laissez les bon temps rouler” „Let the good times roll” – Bruvvers Theatre Company

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for people over 12 - contains some strong language

Genre: Music

Jazz/cabaret chanteuse Maria Tecce returns to Prague after a sold-out run at last year's Fringe Festiva Praha. Sensuous, smoldering, and elegant, this Italian-American combines jazz and the theatrical spice of cabaret with style, glamor, and magnetic allure....

„Kill for tickets if you have to” – The Prague Post

Theatre: Baráčnická rychta

Language: In English

Age accessibility:

Genre: Theatre – solo performance, text based

Drawing on Mary Shelley’s life and her novel, Frankenstein, and employing everything from creation myths to potato heads, this one-woman play explores reproductive technology, the act of creation, and one’s struggle to know who and what one is.
”This is a work of great empathy and invention, a model for monologists” ***** Edmonton Journal, Canada
”Intellectually rigorous, elegantly written and exquisitely performed” **** SEE Magazine, Canada

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility:

Genre: Music and Spoken Word

Bringing together four of Ireland's most exciting musicians and poets, ”The Voice and The Verse” is a montage of poignant lyrics and infectious melodies that promises not to disappoint
”Too damn good to miss” - The Village Voice, New York
”Major forces in the canon of contemporary Irish poetry” - The Galway Advertiser

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, text based

Love is never ordinary. Occasionally it can involve chairs. Join a sadistic, sarcastic, infatuated couple as they traverse the plains of imagination, and plumb the depths of comedy to come to a resolution over their seating arrangements. A hilarious, bizarre, and life-affirming comic escapade that will change they way you look at your furniture forever.

„I, for one, was utterly charmed by these clownish fools whose youthfully bizarre antics lit the stage like thousand-watt bulbs” - Irish Theatre Magazine

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre, little use of language

From the creators of „The Ugly Duchess” and winner of 2 critic's choice awards, „Circus Fire” is a brilliant and daring movement piece chronicling the 1944 Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus fire that claimed 168 lives. Using sheer physicality and music, the cast creates a unique piece of theatrical magic.

„Smartly directed and elegantly produced, Circus Fire is bold, imaginative and terribly clever” - Times Colonist „Worth seeing twice” - Monday Magazine

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all ages

Genre: Comedy/Theatre, text based

Hilarious and moving, Little Johnny is the tale of one Scot on a wild quest to find love! He’s become so desperate that he’s on his very own Confessions tour (just like his idol Madonna) travelling across Europe to the Prague Festival Fringe to forget Mr Chilli-Con-Carne, Mr Quality and Mr First Time. Join him as he looks for Mr Right Now!
”Charming… genuinely funny… left the audience cheering” - The Scotsman ”A little ray of light that shimmers” - The Herald

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only – contains strong language

Genre: Physical Theater, Text based but visual

Inspired by The Oresteia, Third Child explores the relationship between one’s responsibility to God, country and self. Orestes is compelled by the oracle at Delphi to return to his homeland and kill his mother. Duty and Destiny bind him to this act, but his allegiance to the god Apollo cannot cleanse his guilt. These forces confound and inspire the creation of this man who thinks he understands the consequences of his actions, fears those consequences, but is powerless to stop.

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults and Children 12 and over

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

Hailed by BLATT as „provacative, fun, intellectual and challenging”, Beautiful Confusion returns to Prague Fringe with Don Nigro’s Necropolis.

In an unamed city ravaged by war, an American reporter and a local woman share a night of passion. Necropolis is the story of the morning and the fine lines between guilt and innocence, justice and revenge, patriotism and terrorism in a city where life and death walk side by side.

„the plunge into ice water is stunning” – Broadway World

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre/Film, Text based but visual

A man and a woman live and work at a truck stop as prostitutes. Drug addicted and desperate they cling to each other. This play demands that you consider that love can exist outside your own perception. If a flower can grow through a crack in the pavement then maybe love can survive in Tim and Norm’s lean-to.

A dark and mysterious trip down the rabbit hole to the other side A subterranean shuffle under the suburban insane!!

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only/ contains strong language

Genre: Music, Text based but visual

Stephen Brandon is a man of constant surprise. He has been tagged at various points of his career as a neo traditionalist,a maverick experimenter and a beatlesque psychedelic revivalist. Whether the subject matter is love, lonliness or topics more slippery, a typical Brandon song demands your attention. His alternative take on pop music with a rootsy edge and smooth vocal style has been compared with artists such as Elliott Smith, Badly Drawn Boy and John Lennon.
”stage presence is disarmingly honest and personable” - On the Street Mag Auckland.

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all ages, no strong language.

Genre: Theatre, text based

When a wealthy industrialist is murderd hard boiled hard drinking detective for hire Jack Kairo must use his wits and skills (both hopelessly inadequate) to stay one step ahead of a conspiracy that may involve weapons of mass destruction.

„Simon 'Toal is a comic gem” - Irish Times „Think Casablanca meets Police Squad via Monty Python, if you don't go see this show you'll regret it” - Irish Theatre Magazine
Nominated Best Male Performer (Dublin Fringe 2005).

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for age 15 and over

Genre: Physical Theatre, text based but visual

What do acrobatic briefcases, ”Heart of Darkness” and a clitoris named Rosebud have in common? If you answered ”Orson Welles”, then you're primed for The Probe. By age 25 Welles was a Broadway superstar and the hope of American cinema. By age 30 he was finished. So what happened? Told in the film-noir style that Welles pioneered, The Probe is a wickedly funny exploration of Welles' saga using the tools that he understood best: movement, music, magic and mystery.

Contains strange sex

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strange sex

Genre: Drama, text based

The Exception and The Rule details the journey of three men (A merchant, his guide, and his carrier) across a harsh Middle Eastern Desert, and the trial that ensues when the merchant mistakenly kills the carrier.

Will justice be served?

A play about the divisions between the rich and the poor, yet the essential relationship that exists between them, it also examines a world whose motto seems to be „shoot first and ask questions later”.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English/Portions in German and Czech

Age accessibility: Contains adult themes. Suitable for children 13 and up

Genre: Physical Theatre

There is no rest and certainly no peace in the macabre underworld inhabited by the undead until the mysteries of their sinister deaths are resolved. A vibrant underworld comes to life with powerful images, live music and theatrical animation with a contemporary touch. Sell out at Groundwork Festival, London, 2007. “Thought provoking, creative ! A must see“. - Prague Post, 2006: xxx anonymous) “There is nowhere this company is afraid to go... the best thing Ihave seen yet“. - BLATT, 2006: xxx anonymous

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for everybody

Genre: Comedy, text based

”Brilliantly outrageous” - Scotsman ”Dangerous” - The Guardian ”Rude, crude and out of line” ”Hilarious and endearing” - Prague Post ”Sleeker and wittier than ever before...there can be few comics who make an art of insulting their audience while simultaneously seducing them. A MUST SEE!” - The Stage

Really just a small town psychopath with a handgun and a few grudges to settle, further accolades for Capurro include: ”He's evil and should be forced to leave the country” - The Daily Mirror

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, text based

Five plays. Five days. All during your lunch hour! Sample the plays of some of the hottest young award-winning American and Czech playwrights in this unique FREE EVENT!

Plays include:

- Little Pitfall (Markéta Bláhová, CR)*
- The Girls‘ Room (Jan Antonín Pitínský, CR)*
- A Short PLay about Globalization, by Dominic Orlando (USA)
- Wallflower, by Deborah Stein (USA)
- Tales of Common Insanity, by Petr Zelenka (CR)*

*All Czech plays will be presented in ENGLISH translation
A FREE EVENT!

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Children’s Theatre, very visual and with music

Chrissy is noisy and Chrissy is loud, he shouts and sings all day, its „me, me, me” with Chrissy! A meeting at the crossroads might just change all that…

Bruvvers capture and stir the imagination of children, here their stories are about trying hard, working things out and being kind to others …look out for the Hare and the tortoise and the Ant and the Grasshopper!

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: With very simple English - educational and fun

Age accessibility: This play is very suitable for nurseries, playgroups, infant schools and families

For children aged 3 - 7

Genre: Text based but visual

Focusing on Hong Kong this year’s short films showcase a city of contradictions. China and Europe meet head on in ”Asia’s World City”; Feng Shui masters advise the architects of skyscrapers, crowded 1920’s trams pass five storeys high plasma screens of canto-pop stars, a thriving city where half the land is protected wildlife reserve. From a city best known for its action adventures we explore the burgeoning independent film scene.

In association with the ”I Shot Hong Kong” Film Festival

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English/Cantonese/Putonghua. Subtitled in English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 15 and over

Genre: Comedy/Physical Theatre, almost no use of language

This is a piece about women AND for everyone. Two funny characters inspired by love. One room. Inside the room hopes and dreams about being on top of it all. What is waiting outside their microuniverse? You will experience unconventional clown-theatre in a refreshing sweet and sour cocktail of emotions with a spicy touch of reality!

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English and German

Age accessibility: Suitable for everyboby

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

This is the story of „Eugenia”, traveling and now lost between people, borders, countries and languages. In a „Comedy of Errors”, Eugenia crosses from a normal situation – she lost her Passport- to more tragic and impossible boundaries. Language becomes the weapon: we have to finally return to the same starting point of the journey itself. They all speak the same language, they can understand each other. They decide that they don´t care.

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In Spanish and English with a Czech synopsis

Age accessibility: Adults only

Genre: Theatre, Text based but visual

This Budapest Fringe 2006 Best Actor Award show is a journey of the mind. One man, one woman, one chair, explore their perception of self as they jump between reality and fiction. Dealing with the known, the unknown, the safe, the unsafe, fighting to control and hide what others use to exploit about them. Echoing our trapped relationships, and how we manipulate ourselves and others by the roles we create and play.
”Comic, disturbing, verging on madness” - The Scotsman

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English with some Hungarian

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Text based but visual

Amelia, written and directed by Scena Theatre’s Artistic Director Robert McNamara, deals with the life and disappearance of the famed American aviatrix Amelia Earhart on her 1937 around-the-world flight. The play Amelia poses the questions as to her real mission. Was her disappearance due to error? Or was she a spy for the US? Earhart's disappearance is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th Century. No one knows to this day why she disappeared.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: All audiences (contains strong language)

Genre: One-man show, text-based

Kevin wants to stage a show but can't seem to escape his bedroom. His rehearsals become monolgues on sleeping with your students while drinking alone, bargain hunting for abortion clinics, chastising the comatose while enjoying fresh produce, hijacking funerals in search of ”spiritual DNA” and merging salsa/aerobics with psychotherapy.
”Utterly magnetic …..extremely funny…..pure theatrical gold” - GCN (Dublin)
”Has the necessary charisma” -The Scotsman (Edinburgh)
”Dark humor . . .goes interesting places” - nytheatre.com

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre with verbal elements

Shocking, provocative and brilliant adaptation of Beckett’s short story. A young tramp meets a prostitute and from a chance meeting first love is born. But can its purity survive the cruelty and perversity of the world around them? Since 1987 First Love has been performed over 700 times and at over 20 festivals around the world, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (4 times!)

„..a true little gem” - Festival Guide, Edinburgh
„a weird vision of love and it leaves you feeling strangely moved” - What’s On, London

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Mime

Mime must go on! Modern mime. White mask. Birth versus tragedy. Expression of an expression. Shy comedy. Fall into imagination. Striptease of surrealism. Rhythm of silence. In spite of a sentence. Delicate emotion. Čechová. Vizváry. Miřenka. Radim. Theatro pantomissimo!

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: Non verbal

Age accessibility: Not only for Adults

Genre: Theatre, text based.

On a visit to a beautiful but tormented place, where the most basic of political struggles is being enacted, the narrator of Wallace Shawn's THE FEVER falls ill. Slumped on the floor of a hotel bathroom, the traveler is visited by cherished memories of a privileged past. But as the night wears on, the bathroom floor becomes a battlefield on which an internal struggle wages.

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults / older children

Genre: Non verbal

Taking Traditional Dance Into the Future. Celtic Feet are an energetic group of young dancers who breathe new life into traditional Scottish Dance. Using fast paced contemporary dance music, original choreography by Robina Addison and creative costume design, Celtic Feet breathe new life into traditional Highland dance routines.
The result is a breathtaking display of sound and dance, full of energy and movement, which is both entertaining and inspiring, while remaining true to a long and well respected dance tradition.

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: Dance

Age accessibility: Suitable for the whole family

Genre: Theatre, Text based but visual

Little d-fects bring their ”fresh, easily accessible style” (Hairline, Edinburgh 2003) to the Prague Fringe Festival with ‘Tourist’ - a show about how dreams are shattered or fulfilled in an instant, and how our whole existence can turn on one fraction of a second. Olympic city Beijing is about to see a total eclipse and four people are wondering if their lives really revolve around one moment in this exhilarating and frenetic production.
”Truly exciting theatre” - Plymouth Herald, 2004

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 14 and over

Genre: Dark Comedy, text based but visual

Deep in the freezer, a popsicle caught in stasis is tormented by his own thoughts. His curiosity leaves him searching for a meaning outside the box. With a cartoon ambience, this two-man show has provoked and intrigued audiences with its imaginative genius and outlandish creativity.

Canadian adjudicator Allan Stratton calls this Beckett-esque fancy "a sheer delight"! Winner of six awards including Best Original Script for Theatrical Excellence and Best Show of LOAF 2005.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for General Audiences

Genre: Music

Scottish singer/songwriter Andi Neate returns for her 4th Prague Fringe appearance, with 4 albums to date she has been labeled a ”quirky, and compelling live performer”

Her performances have included the Edinburgh Fringe (The Spiegel Tent) and Glastonbury Festivals, The Kals’art Arts Festival (Palermo), she has also supported John Renbourne, and Grammy Nominee Eliza Gilkyson.
”Gob-smackingly good voice and highly sensitive song-writing skills” - Three Weeks (Edinburgh Fringe)

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English

Age accessibility: All ages

Genre: Theatre – Dance – Storytelling / Text based but visual

Tarantella, Tarantula is a unique, vital and contemporary exploration of dance, music and story telling - exuding a life force that speaks of continuity and passionate age old practices not alien to our modern needs. The performance weaves a delicate and poignant story.

Artship’s idiosyncratic style has been described by critics as being at the nexus of dance, theater, cinema and „zen.” „Actors-dancers bring lost art of physical storytelling to life” - San Francisco Chronical

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

They’ve found a picture. Could this picture spell the destruction of civilized society…? Or is it just the scribblings of a four year old? Who's telling the truth? What is the truth? And does the truth really matter any more? Les Enfants Terribles present their award-winning show… ‘The Infant’
***** - ”Savage satire…” - British Theatre Guide ***** - ”An amazing play…” – Hairline **** - ”Bitingly funny, deeply insightful” – Three Weeks **** - ”as elegant as it’s subversive” – Metro

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only and young adults – not suited to young children

Genre: Comedy/Physical Theatre/Dance Theatre

Watch Anna and 7 rail-men dancing in the dance slapstick comedy on the platform No. 2. They dance, sing and love while meeting their destiny…wheel rhythm tap-dances its desire. Trains, rhythm, desire, fragrance, motion, distance, goodbye saying, waiting…signal and rails, will leave you dazzled Uniform, beauty norm! No leaning out of windows, experience hazard!

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: Non verbal

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Total Theatre – Word / Body / Music

Celebrate the Extraordinary Journey of LOVE – through LIFE’S many hues – Joy, Sorrow, Caprice, Irony, Death, Freedom and Laughter
”A Timeless and Memorable Performance” – Edinburgh Festival 2004 ”Brilliant, Very Powerful, Very Moving” – Dublin 2005 This ”Tour de Force” is based on the writings of ”The Greatest Mystic Poet of any Age” – Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
UNESCO has dedicated 2007 as ”The International Year Of Mevlana Rumi to promote inter – faith dialogue”

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Not suitable for children below 10 years

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual with music

A powerful new show full of action, laugher, tears and the live sounds of classic soul and Motown based on the short stories of FX Toole and brought to life with a punch by Bruvvers; this is the story of a Tyneside lass who dreams of becoming a world class boxer.

„Laissez les bon temps rouler” „Let the good times roll” – Bruvvers Theatre Company

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for people over 12 - contains some strong language

Genre: Music

Jazz/cabaret chanteuse Maria Tecce returns to Prague after a sold-out run at last year's Fringe Festiva Praha. Sensuous, smoldering, and elegant, this Italian-American combines jazz and the theatrical spice of cabaret with style, glamor, and magnetic allure....

„Kill for tickets if you have to” – The Prague Post

Theatre: Baráčnická rychta

Language: In English

Age accessibility:

Genre: Theatre – solo performance, text based

Drawing on Mary Shelley’s life and her novel, Frankenstein, and employing everything from creation myths to potato heads, this one-woman play explores reproductive technology, the act of creation, and one’s struggle to know who and what one is.
”This is a work of great empathy and invention, a model for monologists” ***** Edmonton Journal, Canada
”Intellectually rigorous, elegantly written and exquisitely performed” **** SEE Magazine, Canada

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility:

Genre: Music and Spoken Word

Bringing together four of Ireland's most exciting musicians and poets, ”The Voice and The Verse” is a montage of poignant lyrics and infectious melodies that promises not to disappoint
”Too damn good to miss” - The Village Voice, New York
”Major forces in the canon of contemporary Irish poetry” - The Galway Advertiser

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, text based

Love is never ordinary. Occasionally it can involve chairs. Join a sadistic, sarcastic, infatuated couple as they traverse the plains of imagination, and plumb the depths of comedy to come to a resolution over their seating arrangements. A hilarious, bizarre, and life-affirming comic escapade that will change they way you look at your furniture forever.

„I, for one, was utterly charmed by these clownish fools whose youthfully bizarre antics lit the stage like thousand-watt bulbs” - Irish Theatre Magazine

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre, little use of language

From the creators of „The Ugly Duchess” and winner of 2 critic's choice awards, „Circus Fire” is a brilliant and daring movement piece chronicling the 1944 Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus fire that claimed 168 lives. Using sheer physicality and music, the cast creates a unique piece of theatrical magic.

„Smartly directed and elegantly produced, Circus Fire is bold, imaginative and terribly clever” - Times Colonist „Worth seeing twice” - Monday Magazine

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all ages

Genre: Comedy/Theatre, text based

Hilarious and moving, Little Johnny is the tale of one Scot on a wild quest to find love! He’s become so desperate that he’s on his very own Confessions tour (just like his idol Madonna) travelling across Europe to the Prague Festival Fringe to forget Mr Chilli-Con-Carne, Mr Quality and Mr First Time. Join him as he looks for Mr Right Now!
”Charming… genuinely funny… left the audience cheering” - The Scotsman ”A little ray of light that shimmers” - The Herald

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only – contains strong language

Genre: Physical Theater, Text based but visual

Inspired by The Oresteia, Third Child explores the relationship between one’s responsibility to God, country and self. Orestes is compelled by the oracle at Delphi to return to his homeland and kill his mother. Duty and Destiny bind him to this act, but his allegiance to the god Apollo cannot cleanse his guilt. These forces confound and inspire the creation of this man who thinks he understands the consequences of his actions, fears those consequences, but is powerless to stop.

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults and Children 12 and over

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

Hailed by BLATT as „provacative, fun, intellectual and challenging”, Beautiful Confusion returns to Prague Fringe with Don Nigro’s Necropolis.

In an unamed city ravaged by war, an American reporter and a local woman share a night of passion. Necropolis is the story of the morning and the fine lines between guilt and innocence, justice and revenge, patriotism and terrorism in a city where life and death walk side by side.

„the plunge into ice water is stunning” – Broadway World

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre/Film, Text based but visual

A man and a woman live and work at a truck stop as prostitutes. Drug addicted and desperate they cling to each other. This play demands that you consider that love can exist outside your own perception. If a flower can grow through a crack in the pavement then maybe love can survive in Tim and Norm’s lean-to.

A dark and mysterious trip down the rabbit hole to the other side A subterranean shuffle under the suburban insane!!

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only/ contains strong language

Genre: Music, Text based but visual

Stephen Brandon is a man of constant surprise. He has been tagged at various points of his career as a neo traditionalist,a maverick experimenter and a beatlesque psychedelic revivalist. Whether the subject matter is love, lonliness or topics more slippery, a typical Brandon song demands your attention. His alternative take on pop music with a rootsy edge and smooth vocal style has been compared with artists such as Elliott Smith, Badly Drawn Boy and John Lennon.
”stage presence is disarmingly honest and personable” - On the Street Mag Auckland.

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all ages, no strong language.

Genre: Theatre, text based

When a wealthy industrialist is murderd hard boiled hard drinking detective for hire Jack Kairo must use his wits and skills (both hopelessly inadequate) to stay one step ahead of a conspiracy that may involve weapons of mass destruction.

„Simon 'Toal is a comic gem” - Irish Times „Think Casablanca meets Police Squad via Monty Python, if you don't go see this show you'll regret it” - Irish Theatre Magazine
Nominated Best Male Performer (Dublin Fringe 2005).

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for age 15 and over

Genre: Physical Theatre, text based but visual

What do acrobatic briefcases, ”Heart of Darkness” and a clitoris named Rosebud have in common? If you answered ”Orson Welles”, then you're primed for The Probe. By age 25 Welles was a Broadway superstar and the hope of American cinema. By age 30 he was finished. So what happened? Told in the film-noir style that Welles pioneered, The Probe is a wickedly funny exploration of Welles' saga using the tools that he understood best: movement, music, magic and mystery.

Contains strange sex

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strange sex

Genre: Drama, text based

The Exception and The Rule details the journey of three men (A merchant, his guide, and his carrier) across a harsh Middle Eastern Desert, and the trial that ensues when the merchant mistakenly kills the carrier.

Will justice be served?

A play about the divisions between the rich and the poor, yet the essential relationship that exists between them, it also examines a world whose motto seems to be „shoot first and ask questions later”.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English/Portions in German and Czech

Age accessibility: Contains adult themes. Suitable for children 13 and up

Genre: Physical Theatre

There is no rest and certainly no peace in the macabre underworld inhabited by the undead until the mysteries of their sinister deaths are resolved. A vibrant underworld comes to life with powerful images, live music and theatrical animation with a contemporary touch. Sell out at Groundwork Festival, London, 2007. “Thought provoking, creative ! A must see“. - Prague Post, 2006: xxx anonymous) “There is nowhere this company is afraid to go... the best thing Ihave seen yet“. - BLATT, 2006: xxx anonymous

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for everybody

Genre: Comedy, text based but visual

Topping & Butch return to Prague for their 5th visit for TWO NIGHTSONLY with a collection of new songs and a few favourites. Outrageous musical satire, stupid costumes and stand up material which will make you gasp. Fasten your seatbelts, there'll be pork in the trees tonight...
”delightfully relentless” **** The List (Edinburgh) ”one-liners that would melt granite...pant-wettingly funny” ***** Broadway Baby (Edinburgh) ”..all the right ingredients - sharp, racy and just a little bit camp” - Sydney Morning Herald

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only - 15 and over

Genre: Theatre, text based

Five plays. Five days. All during your lunch hour! Sample the plays of some of the hottest young award-winning American and Czech playwrights in this unique FREE EVENT!

Plays include:

- Little Pitfall (Markéta Bláhová, CR)*
- The Girls‘ Room (Jan Antonín Pitínský, CR)*
- A Short PLay about Globalization, by Dominic Orlando (USA)
- Wallflower, by Deborah Stein (USA)
- Tales of Common Insanity, by Petr Zelenka (CR)*

*All Czech plays will be presented in ENGLISH translation
A FREE EVENT!

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Children’s Theatre, very visual and with music

Chrissy is noisy and Chrissy is loud, he shouts and sings all day, its „me, me, me” with Chrissy! A meeting at the crossroads might just change all that…

Bruvvers capture and stir the imagination of children, here their stories are about trying hard, working things out and being kind to others …look out for the Hare and the tortoise and the Ant and the Grasshopper!

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: With very simple English - educational and fun

Age accessibility: This play is very suitable for nurseries, playgroups, infant schools and families

For children aged 3 - 7

Genre: Text based but visual

Focusing on Hong Kong this year’s short films showcase a city of contradictions. China and Europe meet head on in ”Asia’s World City”; Feng Shui masters advise the architects of skyscrapers, crowded 1920’s trams pass five storeys high plasma screens of canto-pop stars, a thriving city where half the land is protected wildlife reserve. From a city best known for its action adventures we explore the burgeoning independent film scene.

In association with the ”I Shot Hong Kong” Film Festival

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English/Cantonese/Putonghua. Subtitled in English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 15 and over

Genre: Comedy/Physical Theatre, almost no use of language

This is a piece about women AND for everyone. Two funny characters inspired by love. One room. Inside the room hopes and dreams about being on top of it all. What is waiting outside their microuniverse? You will experience unconventional clown-theatre in a refreshing sweet and sour cocktail of emotions with a spicy touch of reality!

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English and German

Age accessibility: Suitable for everyboby

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

This is the story of „Eugenia”, traveling and now lost between people, borders, countries and languages. In a „Comedy of Errors”, Eugenia crosses from a normal situation – she lost her Passport- to more tragic and impossible boundaries. Language becomes the weapon: we have to finally return to the same starting point of the journey itself. They all speak the same language, they can understand each other. They decide that they don´t care.

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In Spanish and English with a Czech synopsis

Age accessibility: Adults only

Genre: Text based

Back for a second year at the Fringe, these extraordinary pint-sized poets, aged just 10-13, are definitely the most inspirational and entertaining young writers you’ll ever come across. With poems and stories covering loneliness and love to boogers and burps, it’s impossible not to LOVE the Geeks!
”I haughtily went along thinking that the evening would certainly be 'worthy', and wound up being floored by the talent and intellect of these kids”, - Prague Post, ”Astounding!”

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Loved by all ages

Genre: Theatre, Text based but visual

This Budapest Fringe 2006 Best Actor Award show is a journey of the mind. One man, one woman, one chair, explore their perception of self as they jump between reality and fiction. Dealing with the known, the unknown, the safe, the unsafe, fighting to control and hide what others use to exploit about them. Echoing our trapped relationships, and how we manipulate ourselves and others by the roles we create and play.
”Comic, disturbing, verging on madness” - The Scotsman

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English with some Hungarian

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Text based but visual

Amelia, written and directed by Scena Theatre’s Artistic Director Robert McNamara, deals with the life and disappearance of the famed American aviatrix Amelia Earhart on her 1937 around-the-world flight. The play Amelia poses the questions as to her real mission. Was her disappearance due to error? Or was she a spy for the US? Earhart's disappearance is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th Century. No one knows to this day why she disappeared.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: All audiences (contains strong language)

Genre: One-man show, text-based

Kevin wants to stage a show but can't seem to escape his bedroom. His rehearsals become monolgues on sleeping with your students while drinking alone, bargain hunting for abortion clinics, chastising the comatose while enjoying fresh produce, hijacking funerals in search of ”spiritual DNA” and merging salsa/aerobics with psychotherapy.
”Utterly magnetic …..extremely funny…..pure theatrical gold” - GCN (Dublin)
”Has the necessary charisma” -The Scotsman (Edinburgh)
”Dark humor . . .goes interesting places” - nytheatre.com

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre with verbal elements

Shocking, provocative and brilliant adaptation of Beckett’s short story. A young tramp meets a prostitute and from a chance meeting first love is born. But can its purity survive the cruelty and perversity of the world around them? Since 1987 First Love has been performed over 700 times and at over 20 festivals around the world, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (4 times!)

„..a true little gem” - Festival Guide, Edinburgh
„a weird vision of love and it leaves you feeling strangely moved” - What’s On, London

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Mime

Mime must go on! Modern mime. White mask. Birth versus tragedy. Expression of an expression. Shy comedy. Fall into imagination. Striptease of surrealism. Rhythm of silence. In spite of a sentence. Delicate emotion. Čechová. Vizváry. Miřenka. Radim. Theatro pantomissimo!

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: Non verbal

Age accessibility: Not only for Adults

Genre: Theatre, text based.

On a visit to a beautiful but tormented place, where the most basic of political struggles is being enacted, the narrator of Wallace Shawn's THE FEVER falls ill. Slumped on the floor of a hotel bathroom, the traveler is visited by cherished memories of a privileged past. But as the night wears on, the bathroom floor becomes a battlefield on which an internal struggle wages.

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults / older children

Genre: Non verbal

Taking Traditional Dance Into the Future. Celtic Feet are an energetic group of young dancers who breathe new life into traditional Scottish Dance. Using fast paced contemporary dance music, original choreography by Robina Addison and creative costume design, Celtic Feet breathe new life into traditional Highland dance routines.
The result is a breathtaking display of sound and dance, full of energy and movement, which is both entertaining and inspiring, while remaining true to a long and well respected dance tradition.

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: Dance

Age accessibility: Suitable for the whole family

Genre: Theatre, Text based but visual

Little d-fects bring their ”fresh, easily accessible style” (Hairline, Edinburgh 2003) to the Prague Fringe Festival with ‘Tourist’ - a show about how dreams are shattered or fulfilled in an instant, and how our whole existence can turn on one fraction of a second. Olympic city Beijing is about to see a total eclipse and four people are wondering if their lives really revolve around one moment in this exhilarating and frenetic production.
”Truly exciting theatre” - Plymouth Herald, 2004

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 14 and over

Genre: Dark Comedy, text based but visual

Deep in the freezer, a popsicle caught in stasis is tormented by his own thoughts. His curiosity leaves him searching for a meaning outside the box. With a cartoon ambience, this two-man show has provoked and intrigued audiences with its imaginative genius and outlandish creativity.

Canadian adjudicator Allan Stratton calls this Beckett-esque fancy "a sheer delight"! Winner of six awards including Best Original Script for Theatrical Excellence and Best Show of LOAF 2005.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for General Audiences

Genre: Music

Scottish singer/songwriter Andi Neate returns for her 4th Prague Fringe appearance, with 4 albums to date she has been labeled a ”quirky, and compelling live performer”

Her performances have included the Edinburgh Fringe (The Spiegel Tent) and Glastonbury Festivals, The Kals’art Arts Festival (Palermo), she has also supported John Renbourne, and Grammy Nominee Eliza Gilkyson.
”Gob-smackingly good voice and highly sensitive song-writing skills” - Three Weeks (Edinburgh Fringe)

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English

Age accessibility: All ages

Genre: Theatre – Dance – Storytelling / Text based but visual

Tarantella, Tarantula is a unique, vital and contemporary exploration of dance, music and story telling - exuding a life force that speaks of continuity and passionate age old practices not alien to our modern needs. The performance weaves a delicate and poignant story.

Artship’s idiosyncratic style has been described by critics as being at the nexus of dance, theater, cinema and „zen.” „Actors-dancers bring lost art of physical storytelling to life” - San Francisco Chronical

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

They’ve found a picture. Could this picture spell the destruction of civilized society…? Or is it just the scribblings of a four year old? Who's telling the truth? What is the truth? And does the truth really matter any more? Les Enfants Terribles present their award-winning show… ‘The Infant’
***** - ”Savage satire…” - British Theatre Guide ***** - ”An amazing play…” – Hairline **** - ”Bitingly funny, deeply insightful” – Three Weeks **** - ”as elegant as it’s subversive” – Metro

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only and young adults – not suited to young children

Genre: Comedy/Physical Theatre/Dance Theatre

Watch Anna and 7 rail-men dancing in the dance slapstick comedy on the platform No. 2. They dance, sing and love while meeting their destiny…wheel rhythm tap-dances its desire. Trains, rhythm, desire, fragrance, motion, distance, goodbye saying, waiting…signal and rails, will leave you dazzled Uniform, beauty norm! No leaning out of windows, experience hazard!

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: Non verbal

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Total Theatre – Word / Body / Music

Celebrate the Extraordinary Journey of LOVE – through LIFE’S many hues – Joy, Sorrow, Caprice, Irony, Death, Freedom and Laughter
”A Timeless and Memorable Performance” – Edinburgh Festival 2004 ”Brilliant, Very Powerful, Very Moving” – Dublin 2005 This ”Tour de Force” is based on the writings of ”The Greatest Mystic Poet of any Age” – Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
UNESCO has dedicated 2007 as ”The International Year Of Mevlana Rumi to promote inter – faith dialogue”

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Not suitable for children below 10 years

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual with music

A powerful new show full of action, laugher, tears and the live sounds of classic soul and Motown based on the short stories of FX Toole and brought to life with a punch by Bruvvers; this is the story of a Tyneside lass who dreams of becoming a world class boxer.

„Laissez les bon temps rouler” „Let the good times roll” – Bruvvers Theatre Company

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for people over 12 - contains some strong language

Genre: Music

Jazz/cabaret chanteuse Maria Tecce returns to Prague after a sold-out run at last year's Fringe Festiva Praha. Sensuous, smoldering, and elegant, this Italian-American combines jazz and the theatrical spice of cabaret with style, glamor, and magnetic allure....

„Kill for tickets if you have to” – The Prague Post

Theatre: Baráčnická rychta

Language: In English

Age accessibility:

Genre: Theatre – solo performance, text based

Drawing on Mary Shelley’s life and her novel, Frankenstein, and employing everything from creation myths to potato heads, this one-woman play explores reproductive technology, the act of creation, and one’s struggle to know who and what one is.
”This is a work of great empathy and invention, a model for monologists” ***** Edmonton Journal, Canada
”Intellectually rigorous, elegantly written and exquisitely performed” **** SEE Magazine, Canada

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility:

Genre: Music and Spoken Word

Bringing together four of Ireland's most exciting musicians and poets, ”The Voice and The Verse” is a montage of poignant lyrics and infectious melodies that promises not to disappoint
”Too damn good to miss” - The Village Voice, New York
”Major forces in the canon of contemporary Irish poetry” - The Galway Advertiser

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, text based

Love is never ordinary. Occasionally it can involve chairs. Join a sadistic, sarcastic, infatuated couple as they traverse the plains of imagination, and plumb the depths of comedy to come to a resolution over their seating arrangements. A hilarious, bizarre, and life-affirming comic escapade that will change they way you look at your furniture forever.

„I, for one, was utterly charmed by these clownish fools whose youthfully bizarre antics lit the stage like thousand-watt bulbs” - Irish Theatre Magazine

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre, little use of language

From the creators of „The Ugly Duchess” and winner of 2 critic's choice awards, „Circus Fire” is a brilliant and daring movement piece chronicling the 1944 Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus fire that claimed 168 lives. Using sheer physicality and music, the cast creates a unique piece of theatrical magic.

„Smartly directed and elegantly produced, Circus Fire is bold, imaginative and terribly clever” - Times Colonist „Worth seeing twice” - Monday Magazine

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all ages

Genre: Comedy/Theatre, text based

Hilarious and moving, Little Johnny is the tale of one Scot on a wild quest to find love! He’s become so desperate that he’s on his very own Confessions tour (just like his idol Madonna) travelling across Europe to the Prague Festival Fringe to forget Mr Chilli-Con-Carne, Mr Quality and Mr First Time. Join him as he looks for Mr Right Now!
”Charming… genuinely funny… left the audience cheering” - The Scotsman ”A little ray of light that shimmers” - The Herald

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only – contains strong language

Genre: Physical Theater, Text based but visual

Inspired by The Oresteia, Third Child explores the relationship between one’s responsibility to God, country and self. Orestes is compelled by the oracle at Delphi to return to his homeland and kill his mother. Duty and Destiny bind him to this act, but his allegiance to the god Apollo cannot cleanse his guilt. These forces confound and inspire the creation of this man who thinks he understands the consequences of his actions, fears those consequences, but is powerless to stop.

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults and Children 12 and over

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

Hailed by BLATT as „provacative, fun, intellectual and challenging”, Beautiful Confusion returns to Prague Fringe with Don Nigro’s Necropolis.

In an unamed city ravaged by war, an American reporter and a local woman share a night of passion. Necropolis is the story of the morning and the fine lines between guilt and innocence, justice and revenge, patriotism and terrorism in a city where life and death walk side by side.

„the plunge into ice water is stunning” – Broadway World

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre/Film, Text based but visual

A man and a woman live and work at a truck stop as prostitutes. Drug addicted and desperate they cling to each other. This play demands that you consider that love can exist outside your own perception. If a flower can grow through a crack in the pavement then maybe love can survive in Tim and Norm’s lean-to.

A dark and mysterious trip down the rabbit hole to the other side A subterranean shuffle under the suburban insane!!

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only/ contains strong language

Genre: Music, Some use of language

With a sound is rooted in the atmosphere of Prague where interesting things appear that aren’t visible at first sight, Tajné slunce – The Hidden Sun hit the Prague alternative scene in 1999.
The genre is AltRock and world music, but other styles are perceptible. Original songs are inspired by the tradition of Slavic nations with the remarkable use of amplified drone instruments: hurdy-gurdy, bagpipe and traditional Slavic instruments such as balalaika and gusle

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: Czech + use of some other Slavic languages

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, text based

When a wealthy industrialist is murderd hard boiled hard drinking detective for hire Jack Kairo must use his wits and skills (both hopelessly inadequate) to stay one step ahead of a conspiracy that may involve weapons of mass destruction.

„Simon 'Toal is a comic gem” - Irish Times „Think Casablanca meets Police Squad via Monty Python, if you don't go see this show you'll regret it” - Irish Theatre Magazine
Nominated Best Male Performer (Dublin Fringe 2005).

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for age 15 and over

Genre: Physical Theatre, text based but visual

What do acrobatic briefcases, ”Heart of Darkness” and a clitoris named Rosebud have in common? If you answered ”Orson Welles”, then you're primed for The Probe. By age 25 Welles was a Broadway superstar and the hope of American cinema. By age 30 he was finished. So what happened? Told in the film-noir style that Welles pioneered, The Probe is a wickedly funny exploration of Welles' saga using the tools that he understood best: movement, music, magic and mystery.

Contains strange sex

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strange sex

Genre: Drama, text based

The Exception and The Rule details the journey of three men (A merchant, his guide, and his carrier) across a harsh Middle Eastern Desert, and the trial that ensues when the merchant mistakenly kills the carrier.

Will justice be served?

A play about the divisions between the rich and the poor, yet the essential relationship that exists between them, it also examines a world whose motto seems to be „shoot first and ask questions later”.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English/Portions in German and Czech

Age accessibility: Contains adult themes. Suitable for children 13 and up

Genre: Physical Theatre

There is no rest and certainly no peace in the macabre underworld inhabited by the undead until the mysteries of their sinister deaths are resolved. A vibrant underworld comes to life with powerful images, live music and theatrical animation with a contemporary touch. Sell out at Groundwork Festival, London, 2007. “Thought provoking, creative ! A must see“. - Prague Post, 2006: xxx anonymous) “There is nowhere this company is afraid to go... the best thing Ihave seen yet“. - BLATT, 2006: xxx anonymous

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for everybody

Genre: Comedy, text based but visual

Topping & Butch return to Prague for their 5th visit for TWO NIGHTSONLY with a collection of new songs and a few favourites. Outrageous musical satire, stupid costumes and stand up material which will make you gasp. Fasten your seatbelts, there'll be pork in the trees tonight...
”delightfully relentless” **** The List (Edinburgh) ”one-liners that would melt granite...pant-wettingly funny” ***** Broadway Baby (Edinburgh) ”..all the right ingredients - sharp, racy and just a little bit camp” - Sydney Morning Herald

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only - 15 and over

Genre: Comedy/Physical Theatre/Dance Theatre

Dance madness consisting of two scenes and eight actors. In dance sketches full of the humour, tenderness and dance you might see kleptomaniac, nymphomaniac, phallocentric man, hysterical woman and others.
This project has been inspired by comedy dell‘arte, silent comedy, ballet, folklore, pantomime, jazz, swing, step, Mr. Bean, Monty Python and by the dreams of one’s own.

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: Non verbal

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Text based but visual

Focusing on Hong Kong this year’s short films showcase a city of contradictions. China and Europe meet head on in ”Asia’s World City”; Feng Shui masters advise the architects of skyscrapers, crowded 1920’s trams pass five storeys high plasma screens of canto-pop stars, a thriving city where half the land is protected wildlife reserve. From a city best known for its action adventures we explore the burgeoning independent film scene.

In association with the ”I Shot Hong Kong” Film Festival

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English/Cantonese/Putonghua. Subtitled in English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 15 and over

Genre: Comedy/Physical Theatre, almost no use of language

This is a piece about women AND for everyone. Two funny characters inspired by love. One room. Inside the room hopes and dreams about being on top of it all. What is waiting outside their microuniverse? You will experience unconventional clown-theatre in a refreshing sweet and sour cocktail of emotions with a spicy touch of reality!

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English and German

Age accessibility: Suitable for everyboby

Genre: Text based

Back for a second year at the Fringe, these extraordinary pint-sized poets, aged just 10-13, are definitely the most inspirational and entertaining young writers you’ll ever come across. With poems and stories covering loneliness and love to boogers and burps, it’s impossible not to LOVE the Geeks!
”I haughtily went along thinking that the evening would certainly be 'worthy', and wound up being floored by the talent and intellect of these kids”, - Prague Post, ”Astounding!”

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Loved by all ages

Genre: Theatre, Text based but visual

This Budapest Fringe 2006 Best Actor Award show is a journey of the mind. One man, one woman, one chair, explore their perception of self as they jump between reality and fiction. Dealing with the known, the unknown, the safe, the unsafe, fighting to control and hide what others use to exploit about them. Echoing our trapped relationships, and how we manipulate ourselves and others by the roles we create and play.
”Comic, disturbing, verging on madness” - The Scotsman

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English with some Hungarian

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Text based but visual

Amelia, written and directed by Scena Theatre’s Artistic Director Robert McNamara, deals with the life and disappearance of the famed American aviatrix Amelia Earhart on her 1937 around-the-world flight. The play Amelia poses the questions as to her real mission. Was her disappearance due to error? Or was she a spy for the US? Earhart's disappearance is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th Century. No one knows to this day why she disappeared.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: All audiences (contains strong language)

Genre: Physical Theatre with verbal elements

Shocking, provocative and brilliant adaptation of Beckett’s short story. A young tramp meets a prostitute and from a chance meeting first love is born. But can its purity survive the cruelty and perversity of the world around them? Since 1987 First Love has been performed over 700 times and at over 20 festivals around the world, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (4 times!)

„..a true little gem” - Festival Guide, Edinburgh
„a weird vision of love and it leaves you feeling strangely moved” - What’s On, London

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Mime

Mime must go on! Modern mime. White mask. Birth versus tragedy. Expression of an expression. Shy comedy. Fall into imagination. Striptease of surrealism. Rhythm of silence. In spite of a sentence. Delicate emotion. Čechová. Vizváry. Miřenka. Radim. Theatro pantomissimo!

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: Non verbal

Age accessibility: Not only for Adults

Genre: Theatre, text based.

On a visit to a beautiful but tormented place, where the most basic of political struggles is being enacted, the narrator of Wallace Shawn's THE FEVER falls ill. Slumped on the floor of a hotel bathroom, the traveler is visited by cherished memories of a privileged past. But as the night wears on, the bathroom floor becomes a battlefield on which an internal struggle wages.

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults / older children

Genre: Non verbal

Taking Traditional Dance Into the Future. Celtic Feet are an energetic group of young dancers who breathe new life into traditional Scottish Dance. Using fast paced contemporary dance music, original choreography by Robina Addison and creative costume design, Celtic Feet breathe new life into traditional Highland dance routines.
The result is a breathtaking display of sound and dance, full of energy and movement, which is both entertaining and inspiring, while remaining true to a long and well respected dance tradition.

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: Dance

Age accessibility: Suitable for the whole family

Genre: Theatre, Text based but visual

Little d-fects bring their ”fresh, easily accessible style” (Hairline, Edinburgh 2003) to the Prague Fringe Festival with ‘Tourist’ - a show about how dreams are shattered or fulfilled in an instant, and how our whole existence can turn on one fraction of a second. Olympic city Beijing is about to see a total eclipse and four people are wondering if their lives really revolve around one moment in this exhilarating and frenetic production.
”Truly exciting theatre” - Plymouth Herald, 2004

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 14 and over

Genre: Dark Comedy, text based but visual

Deep in the freezer, a popsicle caught in stasis is tormented by his own thoughts. His curiosity leaves him searching for a meaning outside the box. With a cartoon ambience, this two-man show has provoked and intrigued audiences with its imaginative genius and outlandish creativity.

Canadian adjudicator Allan Stratton calls this Beckett-esque fancy "a sheer delight"! Winner of six awards including Best Original Script for Theatrical Excellence and Best Show of LOAF 2005.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for General Audiences

Genre: Music

Scottish singer/songwriter Andi Neate returns for her 4th Prague Fringe appearance, with 4 albums to date she has been labeled a ”quirky, and compelling live performer”

Her performances have included the Edinburgh Fringe (The Spiegel Tent) and Glastonbury Festivals, The Kals’art Arts Festival (Palermo), she has also supported John Renbourne, and Grammy Nominee Eliza Gilkyson.
”Gob-smackingly good voice and highly sensitive song-writing skills” - Three Weeks (Edinburgh Fringe)

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English

Age accessibility: All ages

Genre: Theatre – Dance – Storytelling / Text based but visual

Tarantella, Tarantula is a unique, vital and contemporary exploration of dance, music and story telling - exuding a life force that speaks of continuity and passionate age old practices not alien to our modern needs. The performance weaves a delicate and poignant story.

Artship’s idiosyncratic style has been described by critics as being at the nexus of dance, theater, cinema and „zen.” „Actors-dancers bring lost art of physical storytelling to life” - San Francisco Chronical

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

They’ve found a picture. Could this picture spell the destruction of civilized society…? Or is it just the scribblings of a four year old? Who's telling the truth? What is the truth? And does the truth really matter any more? Les Enfants Terribles present their award-winning show… ‘The Infant’
***** - ”Savage satire…” - British Theatre Guide ***** - ”An amazing play…” – Hairline **** - ”Bitingly funny, deeply insightful” – Three Weeks **** - ”as elegant as it’s subversive” – Metro

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only and young adults – not suited to young children

Genre: Comedy/Physical Theatre/Dance Theatre

Watch Anna and 7 rail-men dancing in the dance slapstick comedy on the platform No. 2. They dance, sing and love while meeting their destiny…wheel rhythm tap-dances its desire. Trains, rhythm, desire, fragrance, motion, distance, goodbye saying, waiting…signal and rails, will leave you dazzled Uniform, beauty norm! No leaning out of windows, experience hazard!

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: Non verbal

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Total Theatre – Word / Body / Music

Celebrate the Extraordinary Journey of LOVE – through LIFE’S many hues – Joy, Sorrow, Caprice, Irony, Death, Freedom and Laughter
”A Timeless and Memorable Performance” – Edinburgh Festival 2004 ”Brilliant, Very Powerful, Very Moving” – Dublin 2005 This ”Tour de Force” is based on the writings of ”The Greatest Mystic Poet of any Age” – Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
UNESCO has dedicated 2007 as ”The International Year Of Mevlana Rumi to promote inter – faith dialogue”

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Not suitable for children below 10 years

Genre: Theatre – solo performance, text based

Drawing on Mary Shelley’s life and her novel, Frankenstein, and employing everything from creation myths to potato heads, this one-woman play explores reproductive technology, the act of creation, and one’s struggle to know who and what one is.
”This is a work of great empathy and invention, a model for monologists” ***** Edmonton Journal, Canada
”Intellectually rigorous, elegantly written and exquisitely performed” **** SEE Magazine, Canada

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility:

Genre: Music and Spoken Word

Bringing together four of Ireland's most exciting musicians and poets, ”The Voice and The Verse” is a montage of poignant lyrics and infectious melodies that promises not to disappoint
”Too damn good to miss” - The Village Voice, New York
”Major forces in the canon of contemporary Irish poetry” - The Galway Advertiser

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre, text based

Love is never ordinary. Occasionally it can involve chairs. Join a sadistic, sarcastic, infatuated couple as they traverse the plains of imagination, and plumb the depths of comedy to come to a resolution over their seating arrangements. A hilarious, bizarre, and life-affirming comic escapade that will change they way you look at your furniture forever.

„I, for one, was utterly charmed by these clownish fools whose youthfully bizarre antics lit the stage like thousand-watt bulbs” - Irish Theatre Magazine

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre, little use of language

From the creators of „The Ugly Duchess” and winner of 2 critic's choice awards, „Circus Fire” is a brilliant and daring movement piece chronicling the 1944 Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus fire that claimed 168 lives. Using sheer physicality and music, the cast creates a unique piece of theatrical magic.

„Smartly directed and elegantly produced, Circus Fire is bold, imaginative and terribly clever” - Times Colonist „Worth seeing twice” - Monday Magazine

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all ages

Genre: Comedy/Theatre, text based

Hilarious and moving, Little Johnny is the tale of one Scot on a wild quest to find love! He’s become so desperate that he’s on his very own Confessions tour (just like his idol Madonna) travelling across Europe to the Prague Festival Fringe to forget Mr Chilli-Con-Carne, Mr Quality and Mr First Time. Join him as he looks for Mr Right Now!
”Charming… genuinely funny… left the audience cheering” - The Scotsman ”A little ray of light that shimmers” - The Herald

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle (Kavárna)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only – contains strong language

Genre: Physical Theater, Text based but visual

Inspired by The Oresteia, Third Child explores the relationship between one’s responsibility to God, country and self. Orestes is compelled by the oracle at Delphi to return to his homeland and kill his mother. Duty and Destiny bind him to this act, but his allegiance to the god Apollo cannot cleanse his guilt. These forces confound and inspire the creation of this man who thinks he understands the consequences of his actions, fears those consequences, but is powerless to stop.

Theatre: Nablízko (stan)

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults and Children 12 and over

Genre: Theatre, text based but visual

Hailed by BLATT as „provacative, fun, intellectual and challenging”, Beautiful Confusion returns to Prague Fringe with Don Nigro’s Necropolis.

In an unamed city ravaged by war, an American reporter and a local woman share a night of passion. Necropolis is the story of the morning and the fine lines between guilt and innocence, justice and revenge, patriotism and terrorism in a city where life and death walk side by side.

„the plunge into ice water is stunning” – Broadway World

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only

Genre: Theatre/Film, Text based but visual

A man and a woman live and work at a truck stop as prostitutes. Drug addicted and desperate they cling to each other. This play demands that you consider that love can exist outside your own perception. If a flower can grow through a crack in the pavement then maybe love can survive in Tim and Norm’s lean-to.

A dark and mysterious trip down the rabbit hole to the other side A subterranean shuffle under the suburban insane!!

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for Adults only/ contains strong language

Genre: Music, Some use of language

With a sound is rooted in the atmosphere of Prague where interesting things appear that aren’t visible at first sight, Tajné slunce – The Hidden Sun hit the Prague alternative scene in 1999.
The genre is AltRock and world music, but other styles are perceptible. Original songs are inspired by the tradition of Slavic nations with the remarkable use of amplified drone instruments: hurdy-gurdy, bagpipe and traditional Slavic instruments such as balalaika and gusle

Theatre: U Malého Glena

Language: Czech + use of some other Slavic languages

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, text based

When a wealthy industrialist is murderd hard boiled hard drinking detective for hire Jack Kairo must use his wits and skills (both hopelessly inadequate) to stay one step ahead of a conspiracy that may involve weapons of mass destruction.

„Simon 'Toal is a comic gem” - Irish Times „Think Casablanca meets Police Squad via Monty Python, if you don't go see this show you'll regret it” - Irish Theatre Magazine
Nominated Best Male Performer (Dublin Fringe 2005).

Theatre: Divadlo Inspirace

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for age 15 and over

Genre: Physical Theatre, text based but visual

What do acrobatic briefcases, ”Heart of Darkness” and a clitoris named Rosebud have in common? If you answered ”Orson Welles”, then you're primed for The Probe. By age 25 Welles was a Broadway superstar and the hope of American cinema. By age 30 he was finished. So what happened? Told in the film-noir style that Welles pioneered, The Probe is a wickedly funny exploration of Welles' saga using the tools that he understood best: movement, music, magic and mystery.

Contains strange sex

Theatre: Divadlo Na Prádle

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strange sex

Genre: Drama, text based

The Exception and The Rule details the journey of three men (A merchant, his guide, and his carrier) across a harsh Middle Eastern Desert, and the trial that ensues when the merchant mistakenly kills the carrier.

Will justice be served?

A play about the divisions between the rich and the poor, yet the essential relationship that exists between them, it also examines a world whose motto seems to be „shoot first and ask questions later”.

Theatre: A Studio Rubín

Language: In English/Portions in German and Czech

Age accessibility: Contains adult themes. Suitable for children 13 and up

Genre: Physical Theatre

There is no rest and certainly no peace in the macabre underworld inhabited by the undead until the mysteries of their sinister deaths are resolved. A vibrant underworld comes to life with powerful images, live music and theatrical animation with a contemporary touch. Sell out at Groundwork Festival, London, 2007. “Thought provoking, creative ! A must see“. - Prague Post, 2006: xxx anonymous) “There is nowhere this company is afraid to go... the best thing Ihave seen yet“. - BLATT, 2006: xxx anonymous

Theatre: Nablízko

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for everybody