Festival Wild! to present in Prague the work of the writer Louise and the Czech queer opera
The third year of the LGBT + Performing Arts Show is the only theater festival in the Czech Republic focusing on this topic. This year it is held with international participation.
“The first years took place in the shadow of the pandemic. We are very pleased that this time we will be able to convey to the Czech audience significant achievements in the field of queer theater not only from our meadows and groves, but also from abroad, “said the festival’s playwright Jakub Čermák.
At the beginning of the audience show on May 25 from the adaptation of Louise’s prose from 2021 Who Killed My Father, directed by Jakub Čermák with the ensemble Depressed Children Lust for Money – and Daniel Krejčík in the role of the writer himself. Originally a brief literary report, it is an indictment of the French class system and at the same time a gentle love letter.
“Meeting Louis is a formative matter for me. It describes things I’ve experienced in my life too, but I probably haven’t been able to handle them. Thanks to his balancing with himself, my family, relationships, I am able to understand all this, “said Krejčík.
The dramatization of Louis’s second novel, History of Violence, will be presented by the Švanda Theater on May 26. The play tells the story of rape and its consequences, to which the author was exposed. The Venus Theater in Švehlovka invites you to End Eddy B. on May 27, based on Louise’s debut book. The author, whose texts are translated into more than twenty world languages, describes with openness and rawness the childhood in the poor countryside, but also with his gradually revealed homosexuality. The play will be brought to Prague by the Greek National Theater, headed by director Elias Adam.
The Czech premiere will feature the author’s production Time, the Wasps of Polish Director Przemysław Wojcieszek, on May 28. The story of young people from the Polish LGBT community against the background of the transformation of social moods in their own country will present individual dramas and repression mechanisms that will lead young people to the decision to emigrate.
The festival program includes the Prague premiere of Tomáš Hanzlík’s first Czech queer opera Treasure of Arcadia on May 29, which was presented at the international exhibition Opera Schrattenbach 2021. It is an original Czech libretto. The surviving fragments of the texts of the ancient poet Theokrit have been translated, revised and added to one complete story.
Festival name Wild! it refers to an unfettered artistic expression and is also a reminder of the personality of Oscar Wilde, a dandy and writer who was condemned for his homosexuality and the process practically ruined his life. More information can be found at web theater.