Performances

Happy Days speaks about problems, life situations and relationships. But it is important for the viewer to decide what he or she has seen. 

After the publication of his latest book, Langermann is asked to write a play. His father's death, the agitation of the burial preparations, the hidden conflicts of a family that has lost its balance, the stifling atmosphere of the society - all these are not exactly beneficial for the necessary peace required in order to create. The task taken becomes more and more difficult, taking unreal, fatal proportions. 

The essence of Pintér Béla's play Peasant Opera is very old. The archaic story of defying fate has the air of the Greek atmosphere. An action in the past decides our fate. A day, the story of a wedding which shows the human being in a funny-pathetic manner. At the same time beautiful, uplifting, humiliating, funny and tragic. - Szikszai Rémusz

 Girls, women. Girls, young ladies, ladies, sluts, fairies, witches, princesses and bloody servants, aged prostitutes and spoiled dames. They are hungry, willing, they are fighting, smearing, hugging, screaming, crying, waltzing - four women. Four generations of women from here, the nearby Cracow, Poland, Central Europe. A slice of central-European history; fifty infernal years, with dreams that burst out and fade out again and again, break-ups, clashes, risings and hemorrhages. A destiny transmitted from a generation to another, through a particular feminine branch, the same as in Greek tragedies. Four portraits and crumbles of a continent behind them.

You buy a pack of chips and you find out that the end of the world is here. Or at least the Flood. If you're lucky you win a yacht. A yacht, which is in fact a boat. A raft. A trifle. While you have to take with you everything that matters. But what matters? Who matters? Do you matter? Is it better if that rain starts or not? Sooner or later we will find out. Just in case, buy a gorilla.

We are beating the mountain, forget about the boats! Thy art the flags, but what do thou know? It's not on peaks thou climbed, but on slops and wares. What verse and cowar': eternal are thou power! You don't know who belongs to whom, if it's a chameleon. Bat ih bin veri cul. Ja sui biutiful. The civilization swallows me entirely.

Karel Čapek's story - extremely actual these days - presents the destiny of a young man whose father - a redoubtable bandit - raises him in a monastery. The sensitive child, with a select education promises to his father, on his deathbed that he carries on the family tradition and will become a bandit. The attempt proves to be difficult for Vagabondo, the naïve hero. Instead of being the plunderer, he is the plundered one, and not only once. But what does it actually mean to be a bandit in everyday life? In the show created by the couple Peter Pashov and Zheni Pashova the puppets, the actors and the spectators are searching together for the answer to this question.

 

The Hero in Ibsen's Peer Gynt is restless. He is searching for his own opportunities, he is eager to know more, but mortal, he is searching for answers to fundamental questions. Ibsen's poetic/philosophical world is transposed in a complex theatric language, in which dance, music and dialogue are melted. The story, at the limit of dream and reality, promises an unusual theatric experience, by means of harmony between the expressive images, sounds and acting.

 

Shivak Shurman wants to have a child. He has read carefully specialty literature on this topic: Nine Months from a Man's Perspective, Fathers' Bible and other informative publications. He has a girlfriend too who is just right for this great purpose. Shivak Shurman is thus ready to raise a child. The flat only needs redecorating for the newly come. In this respect he should be helped by the furniture and house accessories shop - Furnitur. But exactly in this respect he won't be helped. But the shop guarantees that all its customers will find out for instance how many things can be done with an industrial vacuum cleaner. All these with a lot of music, dance and hysteria...

 

 „Everything is a caricature" - says Bernhards' Kant. A Kant threatened by blindness, sailing to the United States of America, a country to which he will give his science in exchange for an operation to regain his sight. We are on an ocean liner populated by passengers who embody various aspects of mediocrity and banality; grotesque, sometimes comical figures who, during the „trip", seem to be affected by the same incurable and painful existential condition. Two ages, one ship of fools. A theatre of untruth.

 

 "God is silent. Now if only man would shut up."

"The one characteristic of "reality" is that it lacks essence. That is not to say it has no essence, but merely lacks it."

 "If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."

 

When you say the name Woody Allen you immediately have in mind the image of the neurotic intellectual, of the New Yorker who wears glasses and spends most of his time with the psychologist rather than with his partner, his parents or at his workplace. Those who look behind the character remember, first of all the director of successful films such as Annie Hall, Hannah and her Sisters, Take the Money and Run! and many others. But Allen is not only a first class screenplay writer, a unique director and actor, but also a playwright and the author of four volumes of short stories which imposed him on the literary market. In his novellas we discover some of the elements present in his films: discreet intellectual humor, punch lines - sometimes brutally absurd, a life philosophy that sees everything through the twisted mirror of satire. But are they valid today, are we still impressed by these novellas which concentrate the essence of Allen's artistic universe?

Zián and Kopik are two child- and environment-friendly gnomes. Apart from being great mates, they have a joint business: they are the best selectors, doing their job like real professionals. They take care of everything, especially of their environment. No one knows more about the right place for metal, plastic and paper waste. They perform their duty cheerfully and responsibly, always having time to marvel the world around them. Their appetite to play and experiment is endless, happily sharing their knowledge with both children as well as adults. Their gnome-language is understandable for everybody. They have no secrets, except...