At this year’s AMPLIFIER, you will have an opportunity to experience the premiere of an international street production of five theatres, promoting a more tolerant relations between the V4 locals and the Ukrainian expatriates.
There is war at home, the circus has broken up, the performers have scattered abroad. What are the fates of the members of the circus family which is looking for a new place to live and a new opportunity fo their circus in Europe? What kind of people do they meet in the V4 countries? Will they manage to renew their roots? The problem of refugees and their (non)acceptance is up in the air. It is inflated by prejudices, it contaminates the air, it weighs it down and it creates various interpersonal distances. The performance, in the form of a circus and grotesque, ventilates barriers, pumps humanity, resuscitates dreams and hopes of a tolerant future. Or is it just a utopian bubble?
Conzorcium Icebreaking is a unique ensemble of theatre performers and creators from five theatres in V4 countries and Ukraine. Under the leadership of the Ensemble of Irregular Theatre (SK), the famous Teatr KTO from Krakow (PL), the captivating new-circus group Firebirds from Budapest (H), the cheerful author-theatre group Krvik Totr/Prostores from Prague (CZ) and the Ukrainian multimedia theatre WE: MEDIA THEATER from Lviv are participating in the project.
Libretto/Script: Petr Novotný & Tomáš Kout (CZ), Jana Mikitková (SK), dramaturgy and production by Ján Fakla (SK), set design by Tomáš Žižka (CZ), costumes by Anna Weszelovszky (HU), music by Róbert Mankovecký (SK), movement coordination by Ladislav Cmorej (SK), directorial supervision by Jerzy Zoń (PL), directed by Jana Mikitková (SK), performed by Slawek Bendykowski, Paulina Lasyk, Mieszko Syc (PL), Bálint Turai, Gergely Kiss, Dorottya Podmaniczky (HU), Daniela Voráčková, Angela Nwagbo (CZ), Anton Eliáš, Henrich Žucha and Dušan Krnáč (SK). Technical support by Milan Slama (SK).
Funded by the European Union.
Photo: Anna Nowak, Anna Šolcová