Hungarian dancer discovers the dark side of the human psyche on his way to the “realm of instincts”. The first performance of his solo project – created during his residency at the Divadlo na cucky theatre – outside the Budapest scene.

Opulent opera based on Kazantzakis' allegoric novel Christ Recrucified. A fatal encounter of two-faced morals and altruistic selflessness under the topical and appellative direction of Jan Antonín Pitínský. Ceremonial opening of the festival.

Three soundtracks, three videos, the stories of three actors in the actual setting of a high-rise block of flats & fragments of Le Corbusier and Heiner Müller's texts. The radiant performance directed by Jan Mocek belongs to the most distinctive projects of the contemporary Czech experimental scene.

1st part of the international conference dedicated to participative theatre and innovative work with audiences.

Unsentimental “scenes from life” of an imposing personality – a self-ironic and unpretentious first lady of the Czech dissent and post-revolutionary social scene. Production of the Year 2016 (Theatre Newspaper survey) directed by Martina Schlegelová.

A fairy-tale story about a boy who was born inside a peach.

Let's experience the present moment. Let's taste it. Let's smell it. Let's listen to it. Let's see it. - Two dancers, one musician and a perceptive audience on their journey via the others towards ourselves and vice versa.

Hungarian dancer discovers the dark side of the human psyche on his way to the “realm of instincts”. The first performance of his solo project – created during his residency at the Divadlo na cucky theatre – outside the Budapest scene.

Unsentimental “scenes from life” of an imposing personality – a self-ironic and unpretentious first lady of the Czech dissent and post-revolutionary social scene. Production of the Year 2016 (Theatre Newspaper survey) directed by Martina Schlegelová.

Let's experience the present moment. Let's taste it. Let's smell it. Let's listen to it. Let's see it. - Two dancers, one musician and a perceptive audience on their journey via the others towards ourselves and vice versa.

Three young Japanese dancers playfully confront “the different worlds of two continents” in a production full of exotic and bizarre, yet completely familiar details.

Let's experience the present moment. Let's taste it. Let's smell it. Let's listen to it. Let's see it. - Two dancers, one musician and a perceptive audience on their journey via the others towards ourselves and vice versa.

Three soundtracks, three videos, the stories of three actors in the actual setting of a high-rise block of flats & fragments of Le Corbusier and Heiner Müller's texts. The radiant performance directed by Jan Mocek belongs to the most distinctive projects of the contemporary Czech experimental scene.

(Super)stand’art cabaret reflection upon the festival topic performed by the masters of improvisation!

2nd part of the international conference dedicated to participative theatre and innovative work with audiences.

Let's experience the present moment. Let's taste it. Let's smell it. Let's listen to it. Let's see it. - Two dancers, one musician and a perceptive audience on their journey via the others towards ourselves and vice versa.

Hungarian dancer discovers the dark side of the human psyche on his way to the “realm of instincts”. The first performance of his solo project – created during his residency at the Divadlo na cucky theatre – outside the Budapest scene.

Let's experience the present moment. Let's taste it. Let's smell it. Let's listen to it. Let's see it. - Two dancers, one musician and a perceptive audience on their journey via the others towards ourselves and vice versa.

An eruptive road-movie with fearless group of adventurers.

Do you think working in theatre is fun? – Come and see for yourselves!

 

Three young Japanese dancers playfully confront “the different worlds of two continents” in a production full of exotic and bizarre, yet completely familiar details.

A substantially stylized costume and a human body in the main role of a dance performance for three artists inspired by the work of the contemporary dance pioneer Loïe Fuller. Movement as the result of interaction between the body and an object.

The production echoing the Middle-East conflict is set in today's Berlin; it amuses with its sharp verbal wit and addresses the audience through the authentic stories of the main protagonists. The Play of the Year 2016 by Israeli director Yael Ronen is a real highlight of renowned European festivals!
The production will include Czech subtitles.

after the show discussion with Maxim Gorki Theater

Let's experience the present moment. Let's taste it. Let's smell it. Let's listen to it. Let's see it. - Two dancers, one musician and a perceptive audience on their journey via the others towards ourselves and vice versa.

A stage collage based on texts and diary entries of the painter and graphic artist Paul Klee. The newest production of the Studio Hrdinů theatre explores the creation of a piece of art, its identity and the fragile act of creation. Directed by: Ivana Uhlířová

It is 1989 and the political structure of Eastern Europe is falling to pieces. In the foreign trade, Home Office and the Secret Security offices new pragmatic people with useful contacts wait for their opportunities. – Twenty-five years later they control and literally own the whole country… The first collaboration between the director Jiří Havelka and the Slovak National Theatre.

after the show
discussion with the SNT Bratislava

Lebanon, Leben On, Wunderbaum Archiepiscopalis.

Ole is 25 and… he cannot cope. Dramatization of the novella Naïve. Super. directed by Zuzana Burianová.

Gods, people, technologies, light and sound in a unique stage poem. The ancient “principle of unexpected intervention” known from Greek tragedies in the modern stage universe of an original Brazilian choreographer.

An impressive performance by Vojtěch Dyk in a visually minimalist stage meditation on the background of the biggest tragedy of the past century. A polemic yet touching take on Fuks' debut novel in an original variation directed by Miloš Horanský.

This uncompromising political production became one of the biggest events of last year's German theatre season. A magnificently enraged offending of the audience performed by Franz Pätzold – the rising star of European theatre – who was nominated for the Actor of the Year 2016 for his performance as Oliver Frljić's alter ego.
The production will include Czech subtitles.

after the show
discussion with RT Munich

Serious as well as funny sketches from lives of two collage students directed by Silvia Vollmannová.

The desire for absolute perfection is brought face to face with the banal, everyday, humiliating reality. The tragicomedy of a scandalous Austrian cynic directed by Jan Horák and Michal Pěchouček. The concept of word versus the uncompromising pureness of exalted minimalism!

Gods, people, technologies, light and sound in a unique stage poem. The ancient “principle of unexpected intervention” known from Greek tragedies in the modern stage universe of an original Brazilian choreographer.

What is Czechia? Where does it begin and end? Who wants to live there and why? Who is to blame for aversion of Majer and his kind to Czechia? The current president…? – The polemic reflections of writer David Zábranský, director Kamila Polívková and actor Stanislav Majer on the meaning of Czech national identity.

Belarusian accordionist Roman Zabelov and Czech drummer Jan Šikl balancing on the edge of various different music styles and genres!

festival encounter with students of Performing Arts and Art Studies
/ Prague – Brno – Olomouc – Bratislava /

A thick “forest of sounds” and cluster of audible and inaudible impulses attack the audience, their senses and body. The provoking and distinctive Norwegian trio comes back to Olomouc after a year with their newest project!

A critical look at Austrian history as well as parody of “a mountain-resort management teambuilding”. Alpine fun with the devil where the thunderous music gets reflected by a sarcophagus of a massive hydroelectric complex… Directed by: Miroslav Bambušek

A thick “forest of sounds” and cluster of audible and inaudible impulses attack the audience, their senses and body. The provoking and distinctive Norwegian trio comes back to Olomouc after a year with their newest project!

discussion with 
Berstad/Helgebostad/Wigdel

Popular composer of film and stage music celebrating the artistic free-thinking!

music self-service

Tragicomic clownery about great love and death of two young people directed by Hana Mikolášková.

Dance workshop will focus on inner as well as outer noise and the surprising way we can switch between them.

Ethereal exposition of the “degradation of values and decline of the old world” at the turn of the 19th century. A multi-layered trilogy of novels of a prominent European modernist in a radical adaptation by Ivan Buraj, the artistic director of the ensemble from Brno .

A fairy-tale story about the Flood and the power of friendship directed by Zdeněk Vévoda – part of the Michalský výpad festival.

A street happening and active programme for children and adults – part of the Museum Night festival.

An unusual interpretation of the Czech literary masterpiece. A consistently demythologizing view of the inevitable dismantling of the multi-national monarchy with a typical Central-European intermezzo! A colossal confusion of languages in a chilly and playful adaptation by Dušan D. Pařízek.
The production will include Czech subtitles.

music self-service

Ethereal exposition of the “degradation of values and decline of the old world” at the turn of the 19th century. A multi-layered trilogy of novels of a prominent European modernist in a radical adaptation by Ivan Buraj, the artistic director of the Brno ensemble.

Participants of this dance workshop will perform in The Dry Piece production the following day – more information at rezervace@divadlonacucky.cz

A paraphrase of the Faustian theme in the freak show surroundings of interwar period Moscow. A fantastic story of heavenly love framed by the fateful meeting of Pontius Pilate with Jesus of Nazareth directed by Bogdan Kokotek.

The production was awarded many prizes and is a sparkling combination of different dance styles put together by the expressive Brazilian choreographer with a multiple world champion in Breakdance. Self-destructive Menno van Gorp in the “twilight dance”!

Chilean alchemist Diego Olea invites you on an unforgettable visit to the peculiar experimental module. An enthralling theatre exploration of nature, insect and ecological cycles in the digital age!

A sound-rhythmic-compositional and instrumental experiment concert with post-hardcore roots.

Chilean alchemist Diego Olea invites you on an unforgettable visit to the peculiar experimental module. An enthralling theatre exploration of nature, insect and ecological cycles in the digital age!

Interactive workshop for small explorers of theatre world.

The production was awarded many prizes and is a sparkling combination of different dance styles put together by the expressive Brazilian choreographer with a multiple world champion in Breakdance. Self-destructive Menno van Gorp in the “twilight dance”!

Is the routine display of female nudity merely a manifestation of gender inequality? Naked performers challenge not only our voyeurism but also our desire for perfect beauty – in a thrilling piece of choreography by Keren Levi from Israel.