The year-long efforts of our young theatre artists will culminate in the Festival of Theatre Studios, which will open on Victory Day, May 8, and run through mid-June. During the festival, they will premiere their productions on their home stages and we will welcome the regional Studios on the Theatre Studios Exhibition on May 30.

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FESTIVAL PROGRAMME:

PRAGUE:

How does art touch life? And how does life imprint itself on paintings? As part of a unique collaboration between the National Gallery and the Memory of Nations project, an original poetic and dramatic series is created under the direction of director and lecturer Josef Doležal, which seeks answers to these questions. The students, aged 17-20, immersed themselves in the life stories of painters such as Oskar Kokoschka, Aleš Veselý, Emil Filla, Jan Zrzavý, Alén Diviš, Pavel Brázda, Otakar Švec, Josef Čapek and other greats of 20th century Czech and Central European art - and, inspired not only by their fates but also by the visual language of their works, created a collage of scenes, poems and paintings.
The resulting production is a work in progress - a lively, searching and personal look at art and history by a young generation. It lasts approximately 45 minutes and is created on the premises of the National Gallery.

  • 21. 5. 17:00 – premiere of I'll Make It Happen (Studio Prague 8) - Studio PalmOFF, Divadlo pod Palmovkou, Prague 8

We Survived. Those five years were strange. I couldn't understand why I wasn't allowed to say what everyone said - MY MOM. I wasn't allowed to say that. I was the one's I was hiding with. I was their child... Mr Jelinek's story and Gertrude Milerská's memory brought the subject of hidden children into our studio. We fought with it and tried to win.

  • 24. 5. 15:00 – premiere of Helga (Studio Prague 6) - Petřiny Library, Prague 6

We meet for breakfast - the last one. Everything, whatever I do, is for the last time today. I'm putting on my coat, transport number 520 on it. Daddy has locked the apartment door, we descend the stairs.
140,000 people passed through the Terezin ghetto during World War II. A total of 3,500 survived. Helga Weiss is one of them. Helga, number 520, the author of a diary that inspired seven young people to create and reflect on their own attitudes and wishes.
"My greatest fear would be that I would see someone I love for the last time, and I wouldn't know it was the last time."

  • 30. 5. 15:00–18:00 – THEATRE STUDIOS EXHIBITION - Post Bellum, Prague 2 (the Karlovy Vary, Chříč and Hradec Králové Studios will perform)
  • 2. 6. 18:00 – premiere of My Name is Marie (Studio Prague 1) - rehearsal room of the Theatre v Dlouhé, Prague 1

"My life seemed ordinary to me". Ordinary stories give us the impression that we, ordinary people, could live them too. In 1927, many ordinary people were born. But their lives were changed by the events of history - the war. The children from the theatre studio did not find the life of the memoirist Marie Čálková ordinary and decided to tell it further.

  • 4. 6. 17:30 – reprise of I'll Make It Happen (Studio Prague 8) - Post Bellum, Prague 2
  • 7. 6. (time in discussion) – reprise of I'll Make It Happen (Studio Prague 8) – Festival Habrovka, Prague 4

REGIONS:

  • 7. 5. 16:00 – premiere of Where Is My Home? (Studio Pivoňka Primary School, Chříč) - Brewery Chříč

How does home smell? And what makes it? How much does one get used to a home one has not chosen? Two stories that are similar and intertwine until they come together at the end. The story of Elfrieda and Rudolf Hannawald - Sudeten Germans from the Erzgebirge who were deported to Germany after 1945 - led seven children from the Pivoňka Primary School in Chříč to investigate, ask questions and search for answers not only about the complex and dark period of the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans from our territory, but also about the topic of home.

  • 7. 5. 17:00 – premiere of In the Morning a Voice Woke Me Up (Studio Karlovy Vary) - Svatava memorial site

There is only one way to survive, to survive. What we have lived is an untransferable experience. That's why we keep quiet about the atrocities. When atrocities happen, the world should scream! Based on the memoirs of Eva Erben.

  • 8. 5. 16:00 – premiere of Little Fugue (Studio Hradec Králové) - Gymnasium B. Němcové, Hradec Králové

Everywhere you go, you will encounter the story of others. It doesn't have to be hard to influence someone's life. A game for four players, two lives and one moment. And if anyone asks, fugue is when one voice sets out on a journey and others follow to find the same meaning together.
The story of Stanislava Kučerová ... and Karel Šimek

  • 20. 5. 17:00 – dress rehearsal of One Suitcase (Studio Pardubice) - Exil Theatre, Pardubice - as part of Multicultural Week

Everything I have is just in one small suitcase, but "evil must be fought against". The story of a father and daughter - František Hovora and Lenka Pěchová. Ukrainian and Czech children look at the theme of heroism and the fight against oppression.

  • 27. 5. (time in discussion) – premiere (Studio Brno) - Mikro-teatro, Brno
  • 10. 6. (time in discussion) – premiere of Journey to Freedom (Studio Liberec) - behind the Liberec Regional Gallery

From the stories of Jiří Sklenička, Věra Vohlídalová, Milena Hercíková and Jan Šolc. How long a journey do we have to take before we really reach freedom? What is real freedom? The story of liberation in colours...

  • (day and time in discussion) – premiere of One Suitcase (Studio Pardubice) - Exil Theatre, Pardubice