Two Olomouc theatres – Moravian Theatre and Theatre na Šantovce – have joined forces and prepared a special open-air stage in June in the Flora Exhibition Grounds in Smetana Gardens. The aim of the joint theatre festival, which will take place from 5 to 29 June, is to enliven the social life of the city and to get the audience in the mood for the beginning of summer.
In addition to popular Moravian Theatre productions, we will see performances by Prague’s Theatre on the Balustrade, the Kalich Chamber Theatre and Ostrava’s Petr Bezruč Theatre. Foreign guests will include the prestigious KTO Teatr from Kraków and the GUnaGU Theatre from Bratislava.
The Moravian Theatre Summer will open on Sunday 5 June with the stand-up group Děláme to ve třech (We Do It in Three), consisting of Moravian Theatre actors Roman Vencl and Jan Ťoupalík, and magician Karel Pomahač. “Our stand-up group Děláme to ve třech (We do it in three) was created somehow spontaneously in 2018. We can’t wait to stand in front of the Olomouc audience again, for whom we have prepared a brand new programme full of humour and entertainment on the edge of good taste. In addition to the three of us, there will also be a special guest, who will be the well-known Olomouc influencer Daneček,” Roman Vencl invites on behalf of the group.
On Tuesday, 7 June, the festival will welcome its first guest, the Kalich Chamber Theatre with its production of A Midsummer Night’s Sex. Václav Kopta, Barbora Munzarová and Jaromír Meduna will star in the comedy based on Woody Allen’s novel. On Wednesday 8 June, the audience will say goodbye to the “home-made” Postřižinami. Bohumil Hrabal’s poetic story from the setting of a country brewery will have its premiere with a dramaturgical introduction. The second Sunday in June will also belong to the Moravian Theatre and the Christmas comedy When the Lights Go Out, this time with an exclusive cast. “The role of Nina will be played by the popular film actress Michaela Kuklová as a special and lovely guest,” said Roman Vencl, head of the drama theatre. In the first half of the month, the Moravian Theatre will also present The Servant of Two Masters and the musical Night at Karlštejn.
Another interesting programme promises a neo-Baroque site-specific opera Roman Lucrezia by contemporary composer Tomáš Hanzlík from Olomouc’s Ensemble Damian on Tuesday 14 June. The work is based on Heinrich Rademin’s adaptation of a surviving baroque libretto for a parody opera on an ancient theme from 1731. “With the help of a live chamber orchestra, the boys’ choir Bruncvík and the actor-singers of the Geisslers Hofcomoedianten ensemble, we will bring the last days of the Roman kingdom to life,” said Tomáš Hanzlík, the leader of Ensemble Damian, who will perform the same project a week earlier at the National Gallery in Prague.
The Friday evening of 17 June will be made more pleasant by a concert of the band Nezmaři, which has been on the music scene for more than forty years and is one of the legends of Czech folk music. The Moravian Theatre Summer also has children in mind. They will be in for a treat on Saturday morning, 18 June, when the Brno MALÉhRY Theatre with Barbara Seidlová will perform The Snow Queen based on the fairy tale by H. Ch. Andersen. “In addition to the fairytale performance, the programme will also include an art workshop, face painting and other attractions,” said Jana Posníková on behalf of the Atelier MDO.
Foreign ensembles also accepted the invitation. “We are excited about the participation of the prestigious Krakow company KTO Teatr, which will come with a visually attractive choreography of Peregrinus in the style of street theater. We want this production to resonate with the audience as much as possible, so we break down the imaginary barrier of the stage and auditorium and draw the audience right into the center of the action. It will certainly be an extraordinary experience,” revealed the director of the Moravian Theater, David Gerneš. The production by the renowned director Jerzy Zoń, which exposes the pitfalls of the contemporary world with slight irony and exaggeration, will be seen on the evening of Sunday, June 19, for a symbolic entrance fee. There will be a discussion after the end. Another foreign guest will arrive on Monday, June 20. Slovakian acting legend Božidara Turzonová will perform in the comedy Riaditeľky zemegule, with which the GUnaGU theater in Bratislava will come to Olomouc.
Spectators can also spend other days in the company of enticing titles from guest ensembles. On June 21, for example, Saša Rašilov and Marek Daniel will star in a sitcom with horror elements, Lov na losa. The day after, Divadlo na Zábradlí will come with the production Zlatá plajá, under which the creator of the popular series MOST! and District Champion Jan Prušinovský. Jana Plodková, Petr Čtvrtníček or Jiří Vyorálek will play the main roles. Two months after the premiere in the Petr Bezruč Theater in Ostrava, on June 24, Olomouc viewers will have the opportunity to enjoy the adaptation of Karin Lednické’s novel The Leaning Church. “Transferring the first part of Karin Lednická’s Leaning Church to the stage and also briefly telling the whole story of the lost city seemed impossible to me at first. But after many meetings, tests and other complicated hardships, a miracle happened and Bezruči played the premiere. On the brink of exhaustion, on the brink of the possible,” director Janka Ryšánek Schmiedtová disclosed the circumstances of the play’s creation.
The end of the Moravian theater summer will be provided again by the popular dramas of the Moravian Theater. The French comedy Name promises a large dose of humor on Saturday evening, June 25; On June 27 (incl. discussions after the performance) and 28 June, a new production of Gogol’s comedy classic The Inspector, directed by Jana Paulová; the fun in the open air will end with the chamber tragicomedy of the Queen.
Enriching the conclusion of the theater festival in the park will be a musical show and launch of a new EP by Natália Tichánková, member of the Moravian Theater and frontwoman of the band 4GOOD. “The special guest of the concert and at the same time the godfather of the EP will be the four-time Slovak Golden Nightingale and the winner of the Slovak Superstar Peter Cmorik,” pointed out Tichánková.
Tickets for individual performances are on sale at the box office of the Moravian Theater, the Šantovce Theater and online at moravskedivadelnileto.cz. Discounted packages will also be available for selected titles.
PROGRAM:
(all performances start at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated)
5. 6. We do it in threes (stand-up)
7. 6. Kalich Chamber Theatre: Midsummer Night’s Sex
8. 6. Moravian Theater Olomouc: Postřižiny (+dramaturgical introduction)
12. 6. Moravian Theater Olomouc: When it goes out
13. 6. Moravian Theater Olomouc: Servant of two masters
14. 6. Ensemble Damian: Roman Lucretia (+ dramaturgical introduction)
15. 6. Moravian Theater Olomouc: Night at Karlštejn
17. 6. Do not fail (concert)
18. 6. 10:00 MALÉhRY Theatre: The Snow Queen (+ children’s day)
19. 6. 21:00 KTO teatr Krakow: Peregrinus (+discussion after the performance)
20. 6. GuNaGu Bratislava: Directors of the globe
21. 6. Agency Harlekýn: Moose hunting
22. 6. Na Zábradlí Theatre: Golden Beach
24. 6. 20:30 Petr Bezruč Theatre: Leaning Church (+ dramaturgical introduction)
25. 6. Moravian Theater Olomouc: Name
26. 6. 20:00 Natálie Tichánková & 4GOOD – debut show and EP launch
27. 6. Moravian Theater Olomouc: Auditor (+ discussion after the performance)
28. 6. Moravian Theater Olomouc: Auditor
29. 6. Moravian Theater Olomouc: Queens
Source: Moravian Theater Olomouc
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