Divadlo v Dlouhé is a repertoire theatre with a permanent group of actors established in 1996 as a set financed by the Municipality of Prague. Director Daniela Šálková heads the theatre and the art management comprises: literary adviser Štěpán Otčenášek, director Hana Burešová and Jan Borna. The group of actors comprises graduates of the Theatre Academy of Musical Arts, part of the actors have studied in the Department of Alternative and Marionette Theatre of this Academy. The young group is highly talented in terms of movement and music. This makes it possible for the directors to use marionette elements in addition to live music and singing in the plays.Divadlo v Dlouhé cannot be assigned to any genre category: our repertoire includes great dramatic stories just as it includes farces, scenic ballet ballads, non-traditional cabaret or a singing performance for children. We devote regular attention to the child viewers - we annually hold the "Children in Dlouhé / Dítě v Dlouhé" festival at which we feature the most interesting plays for children's theatre.Divadlo v Dlouhé has won many awards from critics since 1996: it was nominated several times for best Czech Theatre of the Year, two of our plays (Don Juan and Faust, Sestra Úzkost) won the best play of the year award, other plays were nominated for this prestigious award. Our plays regularly get points in various critic surveys, the performance of the actors in our plays usually also receive awards as well as the work of the set designers and costume designers. Last but not least to us is he interest of the public - the number of visitors to our theatre is approximately ninety percent.
The first introduction of Seneca's play in Czech, in a new translation of Eva Stehlikova. A Roman tragedy from the times of Nero is based on the Greek mythical story about Faidra, the wife of the hero Theseus, who falls in love with her own step-son Hippolyte. This forbidden and unrequited love inevitably brings disaster upon all the involved. It is being performed in an "intimate" space, with viewers sitting on the stage.
Following the successful production of Pratchett's "Sensible Sisters", here is a masquerade or the Phantom of the Opera! A granny Zlopocasna and an old woman Oggova, the biggest witches of the Earth-Space, travel to the ankh-morpork's Opera where a crazy Spirit is running around and dead bodies are falling from the gallows like flies. But "the show must go on"!
When a mother doesn't know if she is going to have a baby girl or a baby boy, she can talk to her belly as if there was a mouse inside. And that's how a Slovak poet Tatjana Lehenova named the main character in her children book "Is Mickey a mouse"? Our new production for the youngest viewers is based on this novel. It is a fairytale-like story, which interests every small child: "Mom, how was it, when I was still in your belly"? With the help of poetry, music and songs, one may find the answer to this question at the Dlouha Theatre.
Archetype of the liar, which occurs in the drama as from antique, found his most humorous and ageless look. In Theatre on Dlouha we are taken by the liar Lelio (Jan Vondracek) to nowadays Venice during the carnival when differences between the play and the reality are blurred.
The beginning incentive for the birth of this production was an ambition to introduce a work of Jiří Bulis, whose activity is connected mainly with HaDivadlo Brno, to Prague audience. The encounter of this master of chanson with a master of poetry Jacques Prévert could become true only in the theatre and we try to persuade you of the harmony between Prévert's minidramas, fairytales, poems and Bulis's chansons - they simply go together. The cabaret line of Theatre on Dlouha is still carried on by this new piece, supported by extraordinary skills of our ensemble - singing, playing plenty of the musical instruments and at the same time making a wonderful fun in the close touch with the audience.
On the Discworld, that is flat and travels in the space on the back of a huge turtle, begin to happen unimaginable things. Who stands in the way between the kingdom and destruction? Wyrd Sisters is a witty and unconventional variation on Macbeth and other Shakespearean stories. You meet many characters of the dark drama: the duke and duchess who do their best (and they seem to be successful at first) to gain the throne with the whole court including the jester and ghost of the killed king, theatrical company but especially three witches who finally succeed in putting the crown on the right head... However, it would not be Terry Pratchett if in the story did not appear new circumstances and situations that Shakespeare had not thought of, and an eventual surprising unravelling.
The axis of the set is a story of a five-year-old boy lost in a city. Small Pavel takes a liking to the situation and elongates the miracle of new acquaintances in all possible ways. Pavel's wondering through Christmas Prague of the sixties is punctuated with excellent parodies from the contemporary hits. Each of the actors excellently handles one of the musical instruments, such a good big beat band is heard from the stage. A formally interesting element of the set is an act with a
measure - for the directress to accentuate Pavel's child's perspective of the world, he lets some of the characters to walk on stilts. Actors in such situations are capable of generating many gags. The director also uses elements of marionette theatre, film and shadow play. The performance makes the impression of a light, free improvisation. The performance initially intended for children is also highly successful in the evening reprisals for the adult viewers.
It is a cabaret evening in our theatre café in which you can slow down your crazy pace, and while consuming dainty drinks you can listen to Boris Vian's chansons, enjoy the humour of Pierre-Henri Cami's mini-comedies and let yourselves be surprised at other things that the theatre and evening bring along. While the Czech audience is fairly familiar with Boris Vian's literary production, his musical contribution is known only by a small group of the informed. It was Vian who played an important role in the development of chanson and jazz not only in France but all over Europe. It was this gap in knowledge that brought us the idea to present Vian's chansons in an intimate environment of the theatre café similar to the atmosphere of clubs in Parisian suburbs, where Vian used to sing and play the trumpet. The mini-comedies by Pierre-Henri Cami are filled with great ideas, in which the author plays with absurdity, puns, parody on different artistic styles and philosophical pseudoproblems.
Concert with theatrical elements featuring Petr Skoumal (leading role), top Czech playwright of children's songs. Each song has become some form of theatre clip, the creative form of performance also completes the events, playfulness, fantasy and crazy ideas also have their place here.The performance is recommended for children aged four and above.
Like often in Ibsen's plays in The Wild Duck the past is slowly uncovered. Gregers Werle returns home after many years. At the beginning he refuses his father's peaceful good will and he turns on settling family relatives of his old friend Hjalmar Ekdal with a strong verve. And because his pretensions are ideal, his belief in own truth's unbreakable and his doggedness to realize his life's mission is unstoppable, he successfully leads Hjalmar's home to the family tragedy.
