We play the performances with Hungarian and English subtitles.
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Programme of Csekkold!:
Guy de Maupassant: Bel Ami
Directed by: Daniel Špinar
Kladno City Theatre
15 May, Friday, 7 pm
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Almost everyone should know the classic novel written by French naturalist George Duroy, who was taken into the limelight due to his sex appeal, apparent perfidy and affection borne by many influential women. Kladno theater production is timeless and accentuates the influence of media on the creation of personality cults and new idols. It is directed by Daniel Špinar, who we can call "a Czech Alföldi", with a hyperbole. Daniel Špinar took his leading position in the National Theatre within 35 years. He has distinctive handwriting, which is characterized by a sense of expressiveness, fresh interpretation of classic pieces and lastly, consistent work with actors. Špinar's Miláček (Bel-Ami) acts at first as though he is a kind and innocent boy, but what is more dramatic to observe, is his greed on the way up, or as adage says: Appetite comes with eating...
Miloslav König was nominated for his performance in the title role for Thalia Award in 2013.
Theatre Kladno was nominated for the title Theater 2014.
The letters of V(oskovec) and W(erich)
Directed by: Jan Mikulášek
Theatre on the Balustrade Prague
16 May, Saturday, 7 pm
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Who were Jiří Voskovec and Werich? Jiří Voskovec and Werich were two high school classmates who became the stars of significant Prague avant-garde scene in Liberated Theatre, in 1927. Two legendary filmmakers, whom fought against the rise of Nazism with humor, and whose political satires like The Ass and the Shadow or Executioner and Fool caused censorship and a later ban on the activities of the Liberated Theatre. Two close friends whose paths were divided by historical events of the twentieth century. Voskovec emigrated in 1948 before the communist regime to America, where he later succeeded as an actor in Hollywood. Jan Werich remained in Czechoslovakia. Although he continued to play in a theatre, his work had never reached the prewar qualities and was marked by a lack of freedom and the regime's dictates.
The letters of both artists from the years 1948 -1980 is a stunning testament not only of their originality and artistic maturity, but also reveals the loneliness and isolation of two life friends, separated by the Iron Curtain.
The play was directed by Jan Mikulášek, whom, due to his creation, the audience could come across on the Csekkold festival in 2013 the performance Europeana. Acclaimed performance Korespondence V+W (The Letters of Voskovec and Werich) is the top of Mikulášek‘s formation, which is revered for imaginativeness and use of strong emotional images.
Mindhalálig… or two czech plays about the ends
17 May, Sunday, 4 pm, Sufni
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Traditional part of Csekkold is also presentation of new Czech plays translations in form of staged reading created by directors and actors from the Katona Theatre:
Petr Zelenka: Dabbing Street
We do not have to introduce Petr Zelenka to the Hungarian audience. However, what we would like to do is to introduce his new play which he wrote and directed in Dejvice Theatre as well as Tales of Ordinary Madness before. In this time, the topic of the play is synchronizing and alcoholism. Synchronizing, which especially in the Czech Republic, has experienced heyday of quantitative and qualitative decline due to rise of private television, is in the play also like a never-ending source humor (when there are scenes from studio where actors are synchronising vulgar sitcoms and animated series) as well as parabola of versatile and debilitating influence of media on today's world.
Martin Glaser, Olga Šubrtová: Blackout
A play, subtitled a grotesque thriller takes us into the unnamed city, where power is suddenly cut. For a long time. All the technical achievements, that we take automatically available and on which we depend, collapse. Heating and water do not work, garbage start to accumulate in the city, police and health care stops working. Try to imagine that at Christmas time. Maybe, you would be forced by your desire to warm up and to cook something that you would undergo involuntary expedition to an abandoned cottage in the forest. Then, you would might be also visited by some uninvited guests who have the same desire - to surive. To survive, whatever it takes...
Strictly classified or Gross Indecency
Directed by: Braňo Holiček
F.X. Šalda Theatre Liberec
17 May, Sunday, 7 pm
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What will happen if a group of young actors meet in a theatre and begin to create something in their free time? Great authorial theater. Loose group around the actor and playwright Tomáš Dianiška founded in 2010. Production of Strictly classified or Gross Indecency was inspired by the book "Physics of the Impossible" and handles the story of Alan Turing, a British pioneering computer scientist, in an original way and perceives it as an example of what the system and surroudings can do to a man. Alan Turning is famous not only because he helped to crack the Enigma code and defeat the Wehrmacht in World War II, but also by his frank admission that he is gay. Homosexuality was a crime during his time, so he was sentenced to hormone therapy in order to "re-education". The performance is Directed by Brano Holíček, only thirty years old director and actor, who had already managed to get award for Talent of 2013 and also his leadership of the artistic scene in the Prague studio Ypsilon. Today, although homosexuality is not a crime, there are still manifestations of intolerance and discrimination