Lowlands is a haunting depiction of the moral decomposition of the terminal years of communism seen through the eyes of a child from the German minority of Romania. It is based on a text by the Nobel Prize winning writer Herta Muller.
A daughter’s relationship with her father is always special, but how does it change if the father is a famous dictator? How does it feel when Dad is a “monster”? Here Moscow Calling dynamites the idea of unique truth and proposes to the audience an intense theatrical-cinematic experience.
A puppetry workshop led by Marta Hermannova and company members of The Zlin Project centered on their process of creating The Zlin Project – a puppet production about the life of the city of Zlin in the era of Tomas Bata.
More than a decade ago, the right-wing extremist terrorist cell known as NSU came across the novel The Turner Diaries by American neo-Nazi William L. Pierce. This work served as a guide for other neo-Nazis world-wide. Playing Earl Turner combines documentary material with fictional literature and creates a disturbing scenario that fundamentally questions the common notion of lone perpetrators.
A thrilling and gut-wrenching play that charts the relationship between Carla and her young charge, Helver. Helver is fascinated by fascism – not by the ideology, which he is unable to grasp, but by the bravura of the movement.
Filmed during early Covid in a vast, empty building, with 20 performers in permanent motion, Effemera is about fleeting moments. Commander is inspired by real online chats of the neo-Nazi group FKD, led by a thirteen-year-old boy operating under the nickname Commander.
Riders views human action through the eyes of birds. Of the ancient inhabitants of our planet, sentient, intelligent, free beings, shrouded in mythology. Of the silent observers of our destinies.
Based on a dark comedy written in the Terezín Ghetto in 1944 by camp inmate Karel Svenk but banned on the night of its dress rehearsal for fear of SS reprisals. The play the actors are rehearsing in the film pits bike riders (Jews) against lunatics (Nazis), as did the absurdist original—a silly story with a deeply serious message.
A new project by Yara Arts Group that captures the resilience of Ukrainians in a multi-media performance about Russia’s full- scale invasion of the city.
Noon combines documentary and physical theatre that tells about the events which followed after the demonstration of eight people in Red Square on August 25, 1968.
In Boa, choreographer Paweł Sakowicz wonders about paths by which desire circulates in the body; how it is created through a spatial orientation of bodies; how it can be intermediated through popular culture, discourses, and technologies.
Ballet dancers are said to believe they can fly. And indeed, suspended for a second in a jump, they do.
A young woman born in independent, post-occupation Estonia sings of the Soviet residue that pollutes the minds of some of her fellow countrymen and restrains feminist progress.
Inspired by the life of the successful athlete Zdena Koubkova, celebrated in the sports world of the time as a “wonder woman” and holding several world records until she was identified as intersex – in 1936, changed her gender, and underwent surgery to become Zdeněk Koubek.
Markus Hirnigel will read and perform, in a music hall vein, two short stories by Franz Kafka, adapted for the stage in honor of the 100th anniversary Kafka’s death.
Renowned English translators of Vaclav Havel’s works—Paul Wilson, Jan Novak and Stepan Simek—join playwright Edward Einhorn, Artistic Director of New York City’s Untitled Theater Company #61, to talk about the tricky parts of their projects and interlingual hurdles that accompany their wordcraft. Actors from Untitled Theater Company #61 will read selected passages.
