Programme 2007
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My Chair Your Self
The Scallabouche
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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
Amelia
Scena Theatre
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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)
First Love
Act Provocateur Int
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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
Mime must go on!
Theatro Pantomissimo / Miřenka Čechová, Radim Vizváry
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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
The Fever
Padua Playwrights & Studio One Hundred
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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
Tourist
little d-fects
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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
Blow This Popsicle stand
The Black Hand Theatre Company
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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
A Day In Prague, A Night In Brazil: an Evening of Brazilian Music and Latin Jazz with American Guitarist Peter Griggs
Peter Griggs
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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
The Infant
Les Enfants Terribles
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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
Tarantella, Tarantula
ARTSHIP Ensemble
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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
Na hlavu! (Flathead!)
Veselé skoky
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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
The Stephen Frost Impro Allstars
Stephen Frost
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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
On the Ropes Adapted for the stage by Julie Blackie
Bruvvers
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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
Cloning Mary Shelley
LynchPin Productions Theatre Company Ltd
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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:
The Voice and The Verse
Maverick Press
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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
A Play On Two Chairs
Mangiare Theatre Company
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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
Circus Fire
Atomic Vaudeville/Janet Munsil
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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
Third Child
Post Theater Company
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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
Necropolis
Beautiful Confusion Productions
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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
Lot Lizards
Peepshow Productions
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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
Vyzpívání duše (Singing the Soul)
Josef Kristian Mejstřík
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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:
The Friends of Jack Kairo
Flipside and Spacecraft in association with Focus Theatre
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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
The Probe: An Inquiry into the Meteoric Rise and Spectacular Fall of Orson Welles in Hollywood
HotCity Theatre Co. a Theatre Belle Bete
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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
The Exception and The Rule
Rock in Shoe Theatre
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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
Velvet Scratch
Theatre Lab Company
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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
Playwrights in Prague! A Reading Series of New Plays - a free event!
The Playwrights Center
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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
My Chair Your Self
The Scallabouche
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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
Amelia
Scena Theatre
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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)
First Love
Act Provocateur Int
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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
Mime must go on!
Theatro Pantomissimo / Miřenka Čechová, Radim Vizváry
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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
The Fever
Padua Playwrights & Studio One Hundred
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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
Tourist
little d-fects
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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
Blow This Popsicle stand
The Black Hand Theatre Company
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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
A Day In Prague, A Night In Brazil: an Evening of Brazilian Music and Latin Jazz with American Guitarist Peter Griggs
Peter Griggs
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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
Tarantella, Tarantula
ARTSHIP Ensemble
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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
The Infant
Les Enfants Terribles
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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
Na hlavu! (Flathead!)
Veselé skoky
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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
The Stephen Frost Impro Allstars
Stephen Frost
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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
On the Ropes Adapted for the stage by Julie Blackie
Bruvvers
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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
Cloning Mary Shelley
LynchPin Productions Theatre Company Ltd
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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:
The Voice and The Verse
Maverick Press
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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
A Play On Two Chairs
Mangiare Theatre Company
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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
Circus Fire
Atomic Vaudeville/Janet Munsil
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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
Scott Capurro - Yankee Dog Pig
Scott Capurro
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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
Third Child
Post Theater Company
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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
Necropolis
Beautiful Confusion Productions
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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
Lot Lizards
Peepshow Productions
READ MORE | BUY TICKETS
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
Vyzpívání duše (Singing the Soul)
Josef Kristian Mejstřík
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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:
The Friends of Jack Kairo
Flipside and Spacecraft in association with Focus Theatre
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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
The Probe: An Inquiry into the Meteoric Rise and Spectacular Fall of Orson Welles in Hollywood
HotCity Theatre Co. a Theatre Belle Bete
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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
