Fluid Europe

FRI 12th May Moravian Theatre
Bohuslav Martinů
THE GREEK PASSION
Moravian Theatre Olomouc

SAT 13th May (2x) S-klub
Anna Saavedra
OLGA
Divadlo LETÍ

SUN 14th May Moravian Theatre
Yael Ronen & Ensemble
THE SITUATION
Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin

MON 15th May + TUE 16th May S-klub
Ladislav Fuks – Miloš Horanský
MR THEODOR MUNDSTOCK
Studio Hrdinů Prague

MON 15th May Moravian Theatre
Jiří Havelka
ELITES – a detective story with a political background
Slovak National Theatre Bratislava

TUE 16th May Moravian Theatre
Oliver Frljić
BALKAN MACHT FREI
Residenztheater Munich

WED 17th May S-klub
Thomas Bernhard
THE FORCE OF HABIT
HaDivadlo Brno

WED 17th May Moravian Theatre
David Zábranský
ACTOR AND CARPENTER MAJER TALKING ABOUT THE STATE OF HIS HOMELAND
Studio Hrdinů Prague

THU 18th May S-klub
Elfriede Jelinek
THE WORKS
Studio Hrdinů Prague & Mezery, o.s.

FRI 19th May + SAT 20th May S-klub
Hermann Broch – Ivan Buraj
THE SLEEPWALKERS (Imitation and Presentiment)
HaDivadlo Brno

FRI 19th May Moravian Theatre
Jaroslav Hašek – Dušan D. Pařízek
THE CASE ŠVEJK
Studio Hrdinů Prague – Theater Bremen – Wiener Festwochen

SAT 20th May Moravské divadlo
Mikhail Bulgakov
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA
Moravian Theatre Olomouc

For many years the individual editions of the Flora Theatre Festival had their specific themes which determined the programme focus. However, this dramaturgical accent has become more and more limiting and the festival has throughout the years managed to profile itself as an open platform regarding the genre and content, and it included various programme sections. Its individual sections mapped specific artistic or social phenomena, theatre development in the international and/or genre context, or presented profiles of interesting directors and ensembles.  
At the beginning of its third decade, the festival introduces its motto: FLUID EUROPE. The festival's leitmotif gives dramaturgical guidelines to the drama section of the festival and implicitly communicates with the dance and performing arts programme section.
The drama productions of the 21st Flora Theatre Festival are connected mainly by a strong authorial reflection of events, attitudes and ways of thinking which historically formed (and still form) the “character of present Europe”. They are characterised by the need and urge to comment on the turning points as well as less well-known historical situations, and to keep records of their impact on the lives of real people as well as fictional characters living together in the mentally unstable space of the 'Old Continent'.

Authentically reproduced echoes of the Middle-East conflict set in present-day Berlin (The Situation), an uncompromising and direct look into the dark chambers of Czechoslovakian (post)communist personalities (Elites), a disturbing confrontation between the sleek German way of life and “Balkan impetuosity” together with the burning of age-old wounds (Balkan macht frei), a dispute on the theme of Czech national identity (Actor and Carpenter…), a dreadfully apt analogy of the confused communication of present bureaucratic EU structures (The Case Švejk), an unostentatious homage to the unshaken integrity of a famous personality (Olga), a meditative  look back at the biggest genocide of the 20th century (Mundstock), a grotesque reflection of the unfulfilled desire for absolute perfection (The Force of Habit), a loud breaking of a historical and social taboo (The Works), an ethereal depiction of the breaking of old European values with a self-ironic afterword (The Sleepwalkers)…
…these are just some of the topics that are shaping the representative compilation of current Czech and German drama productions which will be presented to the festival visitors in the programme section called FLUID EUROPE. The section includes a five-day focus on the key productions of one of the most prominent Czech scenes – Studio Hrdinů from Prague.