The 2022 Prague Crossroads Theater Festival will remind us of the values of humanism
The fifth year of the international theater festival will take place in Prague from October 15 to 20. It will be welcomed by an extraordinary foreign production, and on the occasion of Václav Havel’s birthday, it will deal with ethical and moral values in today’s world.
The main star of this year is Ivan Vyrypayev (pictured), originally Russian playwright and director, whose plays Oxygen, Unbearably long hugs or Drunk they are also well known to Czech viewers. He will bring his author’s production to the festival 1.8 millionwhich she prepared in the Warsaw theater Nowy Teatr. The international project with the theme of political processes in Belarus is based on authentic documents and becomes an unrepentant indictment of the totalitarian regime and an important contribution to the theme of the artist’s lack of freedom and courage. The performance, in which Belarusian, Polish and Russian are spoken, will be performed with a translation into Czech October 18 and 19 from 8:00 p.m on The new stage of the National Theatre. A meeting with the author will follow.
As part of accompanying programs Vyrypajev October 15 and 16 well done too workshop for directing students.
This year’s program is also closely related to the goals and plans of the new artistic management National Theater plays (Martin Kukučka AND Lukáš Trpišovský aka the directing duo SCOOTER), which include the entry of drama performances into the building State Opera. It is in this space that October 17th create hosting Slovak National Theatre with a production He was packing. The impressive world of the writer’s short stories Bozena Slančíková-Timrava directed by Michal Vajdička and the audience will have the opportunity to look through contemporary eyes into the ruthless microworld of relationships in small villages. The theme of deep passion and alienation also becomes a foreshadowing of the production Hordubal based on the novella by Karel Čapek, which Michal Vajdička is preparing for the National Theatre, already in the position of its regular director. At the same time, the hosting of the Slovak ensemble at the festival is another contribution to the deepening of the planned closer cooperation between the two National Theaters – Bratislava and Prague.
the next foreign creator that Prague Crossroads will welcome this year will be a French director and actor Arthur Nauzyciel. In cooperation with French Institute in Prague will state in its premises October 20 from 18:00 showing a recording of your production Lady with camellias and after it ends, he will participate in a debate with the audience. Visitors will thus have the opportunity to watch the work of the director who is preparing for Estate theater a famous, in its time scandalous game Arthur Schnitzler with name Reg.
“We believe that even this fifth year of the Prague Festival will offer quality audience experiences and meetings with unique creators, and will confirm the intersections of such an exceptional status of this festival – and artistic paths in which art intersects with the urgent need for freedom of speech and spirit,” says the dramaturg of the National Theater Drama Jana Slouková.
Source: press release
Photo: playwright and director Ivan Vyrypajev (Profimedia)