Jiri Vyoralek, Vaclav Vasak. Photo by KIVA.

Performance based on the correspondence of Voskovec and Werich, the legendary founders of the Liberated Theatre in Prague, who were forced to flee fascist Europe and in 1948 to separate after the Communist government got into power in Czechoslovakia. Their correspondence is a strong statement of life by two extraordinarily original and artistically mature personalities as they seek to understand a bipolar world full of iron curtains and cold wars.

The letters are priceless evidence of the intellectual and spiritual world of Voskovec and Werich, and at the same time the top literary work in Jiri Voskovec’s postwar period. “The form of abbreviation, short connections, theatrical allusions, plus the private codes and brilliant stylization, unbelievable addressing and signing” – these are the apt words the critics used to describe the correspondence.

Korespondence V+W (V+W: Letters). Directed by: Jan Mikulasek. Cast: Vaclav Vasak, Jiri Vyoralek, Anezka Kubatova. Dramaturgy: Dora Vicenikova. Set design: Svatopluk Sladecek. Costumes: Marek Cpin. Music selection: Jan Mikulasek.

The show will be performed in Czech with English supertitles. Talkback after the performance will be guided by Jan Mikulasek with Petr Stedron and Dora Vicenikova.

Free and open to the public.