Commissioned by DIVADLO CONTINUO and DIVADLO ARCHA
Directed by: Pavel Štourač
Concept: Divadlo Continuo
Dramaturgy: Divadlo Continuo, Marek Turošík
Visual concept, stage design: Helena Štouračová a Pavel Štourač
Music / Sound design: Elia Moretti et al
Light-design: Jan Hugo Hejzlar
Filmmaking: Amador Artiga
Presented in Czech with English subtitles
The performance Noon combines documentary and physical theatre that tells about the events which followed after the demonstration of eight people in Red Square on 25th August 1968, and visual theatre of insistent images inspired by poetry of Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Vadim Delone and other Soviet dissident poets of the sixties and seventies with the live string quartet accompaniment.
Cast: Sara Bocchini, Kateřina Šobáňová, Natalia Peták Vaňová, Sean Henderson, Felix Baumann, Pavel Štourač Markéta Lábusová (violin, voice ), John Robin Bold ( guitars, electronic ), Petr Tichý (double bass), Urban Megušar (violoncello)
Production: Zuzana Bednarčiková, Markéta Krejčová, Art Prometheus
Booking: Nikola Križková
Financially supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, State Fund for the Culture of the Czech Republic, South Bohemia region, City of Prague and Foundation Život umělce
Partners by : Švestkový Dvůr, z.s., La Fabrika, ART Prometheus, z,s., Ubergange - Přechody
Part of Rehearsal for Truth International Theater Festival honoring Václav Havel, produced by the Václav Havel Center and the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association.
ABOUT THE 2024 REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH INTERNATIONAL THEATER FESTIVAL
Rehearsal for Truth International Theater Festival, honoring Václav Havel, is a showcase of contemporary European theater organized each year in New York City. Conceived in 2017 as a shared endeavor of the Václav Havel Center (VHC) and Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association (BBLA), the festival honors the legacy of Czech playwright, dissident and political thinker Vaclav Havel.
Each edition of Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival addresses current sociopolitical trends in Central and Eastern Europe, offering New York audiences a unique opportunity to witness the region’s theatrical zeitgeist.
The program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. The festival is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.