November 2016

19. 11.
Sat

17:00
FREE ADMISSION
AKCENT FESTIVAL
19. 11.
Sat
theatre
18:00

Made in Macau 2.0

Teng Teng Lam a Kevin Chio
English–friendly
AKCENT FESTIVAL
Theatre Night 2016 / a discussion follows the performance / FREE ENTRY
19. 11.
Sat
theatre
20:00

Forced Entertainment – The Notebook

based on the award winning novel by Ágota Kristóf
English–friendly
AKCENT FESTIVAL
Tickets CZK 290 / students and seniors CZK 190 — length. 120 minutes without any interval— in English with Czech subtitles

Based on the award winning novel by Ágota Kristóf and set during WW2,The Notebook tells the story of a pair of twin brothers evacuated to their impoverished grandmother’s farm in order to shelter from the conflict. These unnamed children are social outsiders, mavericks who survive and understand the world by a harsh private code. As the war deepens, the brothers are slowly revealed as struggling moralists, trying to live by consistent principles in a Central Europe crumbling into
cruelty and opportunism.
Directed by Tim Etchells, The Notebook is an unraveling knot of naïve logic, weaving dark and subversive humour from wartime hardships. Forced Entertainment performers Richard Lowdon and Robin Arthur stand side by side to tell their story in an unsettling and uncanny double act that traps two people in a single voice and a shared perspective. Kristof’s narrational language – bold, crisp and reduced – provides the basis for a unique and compelling performance.
Forced Entertainment are a group of 6 artists who have been making performance since 1984 – questioning, pushing and breaking theatre to see what can be built from the wreckage. Based in Sheffield, UK, their work has been seen all over the world.


“A timeless parable of a lost childhood in the face of war.” - Nachtkritik
The Notebook on stage… is notably astute in its mimicking of Kristof’s unsettling, sometimes brutal yet, even more unsettlingly, often humorous tone – down to its unidentified, unspecified, unnamed minimalism.” – Review
“****…galvanising, and a reminder of the wide vocabulary of a company…still at the top of its game.” - Guardian

www.forcedentertainment.com

Credits

Conceived and devised by Forced Entertainment: Robin Arthur, Tim Etchells, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden and Terry O’Connor
Performers: Robin Arthur, Richard Lowdon
Direction: Tim Etchells
Design: Richard Lowdon
Lighting Design: Jim Harrison
Production: Jim Harrison

The Notebook is a Forced Entertainment production. Co-produced by PACT Zollverein (Essen); LIFT (London) and 14–18 NOW, WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England. A House on Fire co-commission with HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Kaaitheater (Brussels), Teatro Maria Matos (Lisbon), LIFT and Malta Festival Poznan with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union. Development work generously supported by Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts (LICA).

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International festival of Documentary Theatre
November 10–27, 2016 Archa Theatre, Prague
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21. 11.
Mon
theatre
20:00

Stolpersteine Staatstheater

Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, H.-W. Kroesinger
AKCENT FESTIVAL
The Prague Theatre Festival of German Language
21. 11.
Mon
film
22:30

FC ROMA

Akcent Festival and Hate Free present a special screening of a film by Rozálie Kohoutová and Tomáš Bojar
English–friendly
AKCENT FESTIVAL
Free entry.
22. 11.
Tue
theatre
20:00

Stolpersteine Staatstheater

Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, H.-W. Kroesinger
AKCENT FESTIVAL
The Prague Theatre Festival of German Language
23. 11.
Wed
theatre
20:00

Made in Macau 2.0

Teng Teng Lam a Kevin Chio
English–friendly
AKCENT FESTIVAL
24. 11.
Thu
dance
20:00

Ultima Vez – In Spite of Wishing and Wanting

direction: Wim Vandekeybus, music: David Byrne
English–friendly
AKCENT FESTIVAL
25. 11.
Fri
dance
20:00

Ultima Vez – In Spite of Wishing and Wanting

direction: Wim Vandekeybus, music: David Byrne
English–friendly
AKCENT FESTIVAL
26. 11.
Sat
workshop
10:00–14:30

Ultima Vez workshop by Iñaki Azpillaga

a workshop for dancers and professionals
English–friendly
AKCENT FESTIVAL
26. 11.
Sat
dance
20:00

Ultima Vez – In Spite of Wishing and Wanting

direction: Wim Vandekeybus, music: David Byrne
English–friendly
AKCENT FESTIVAL
27. 11.
Sun
dance
20:00

Ultima Vez – In Spite of Wishing and Wanting

direction: Wim Vandekeybus, music: David Byrne
English–friendly
AKCENT FESTIVAL

January 2017

22. 01.
Sun
theatre
20:00

Ordinary People

Jana Svobodová, Wen Hui and coll. / Archa Theatre / Living Dance Studio
English–friendly
#Study
AKCENT FESTIVAL
1st premiere
23. 01.
Mon
theatre
20:00

Ordinary People

Jana Svobodová, Wen Hui and coll. / Archa Theatre / Living Dance Studio
English–friendly
#Study
AKCENT FESTIVAL
2nd premiere
27. 01.
Fri
theatre
20:00

Ordinary People

Jana Svobodová, Wen Hui and coll. / Archa Theatre / Living Dance Studio
English–friendly
#Study
AKCENT FESTIVAL
Venue: HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts, Dresden
28. 01.
Sat
theatre
20:00

Ordinary People

Jana Svobodová, Wen Hui and coll. / Archa Theatre / Living Dance Studio
English–friendly
#Study
AKCENT FESTIVAL
Venue: HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts, Dresden
30. 01.
Mon
theatre
19:00

Ordinary People

Jana Svobodová, Wen Hui and coll. / Archa Theatre / Living Dance Studio
English–friendly
#Study
AKCENT FESTIVAL
Venue: Divadlo Husa na provázku, Brno