PŘELET 2025 - PROGRAM
Thursday 6. 11. 2025 at 14.30
Alfred ve dvoře – small stage
Deset dvacet, brácha v břiše! / Ready or Not, Here I Come!
DAMÚZA
Duration: 45 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 4+
Františka eagerly awaits the arrival of her little brother. But he is still hiding in her mummy’s tummy. How did he get there, and why does he have to stay there for so long? And what does he do there for nine whole months? Františka’s exciting search for what happens before her brother is born.
A story about the miraculous journey into the world that all children have taken, but none of them remember.
Directed by: Markéta Sýkorová
Dramaturgy: Adéla Šotolová
Stage design: Petra Lemonnier
Music: Marek Bělohlávek
Performed by Miroslava Bělohlávková
About the Company
Currently, DAMÚZA is a production unit supporting upcoming theatre artists and ambitious projects by the students and recent graduates of DAMU. In our work, we focus on original productions, especially in puppet, art and object theatre, for children and adults.
Thursday 6. 11. 2025 at 15.30
Alfred ve dvoře – big stage
Hloupý Honza není blbý / Silly Honza Isn’t Stupid
Divadlo Máme
Duration: 40 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 3+
Honza insists on doing things his own way. He’s not afraid to stand out, even if it makes others think he’s a bit dumb. But there’s a difference between daring to look foolish and daring to face a dragon determined to spread fear and destruction. Can Honza take on the dragon? Of course he can. And the wonderful thing is that so can you. This performance invites the audience to join in, in whatever way they choose.
Directed by: Tereza Karpianus
Stage design: entire group
Performed by Kristýna Dámová, Tomáš Podrazil, Štefánie Šubová, Jan Vejražka
About the Company
We are a collective of theatre-makers who, in spring 2025, left Lampion Theatre in Kladno following a dispute with the city council. Our initiative Light for Lampion brought together the Czech theatre community and mobilized the citizens of Kladno. And we have chosen to remain together. That is why we founded Divadlo MáMe: to continue creating work that matters to us. Our focus lies in caring for the audience and encouraging participation – which is why our productions are always accompanied by workshops and educational programs.
Find out more about our story at https://www.svetloprolampion.cz/
Thursday 6. 11. 2025 at 17.30 and 19.30
Alfred ve dvoře – small stage
Kawloon: Největší dům na světě / Kawloon: The Largest House in the World
The FRAS theatre group
Duration: 50 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 8+
Kawloon, one large apartment block. The largest apartment block in the world, which no longer exists. Intricate, endless, dark alleys where anyone who doesn’t belong here gets lost. And standing at the gate to this building is Tuan, all alone, needing to get inside, to find his way to a new home.
Kawloon Walled City was a part of Hong Kong that was not subject to any government control. Over time, the original defensive fortress grew into one large house, covering an area of 0.026 km2 and providing a home for more than 50,000 inhabitants. The puppet show tells the story of discovering this intricate place and getting to know a new home using projection, light and sound animation.
Directed by: Johana Bártová
Produced by: Alexandra Niedomanská
Performed by Matěj Šumbera and Antonín Brukner
Music and sound: Jakub Šulík, Matěj Šumbera
Graphic design: František Štípek
About the Company
The FRAS theatre group has been active since the beginning of 2019. Its founding members are Johana Bártová, Jakub Šulík and Matěj Šumbera. Their first productions were created during their studies at the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. After graduating from DAMU, they began operating as a registered association in 2023. The production manager is Alexandra Niedomanská.
FRAS has long focused on puppet and object theatre. It explores the experimental possibilities of this theatrical genre. The primary goal is to explore a unique theatrical language that incorporates elements from other artistic fields such as film and computer games.
In 2020 and 2022, the group was part of the New Blood on Stage program organized by Nová síť. For their production Nejmenší ze Sámů (The Smallest of the Sami), the group won second place in the Erik Award at the 29th Přelet nad loutkářským hnízdem (One Flew over the Puppeteer’s Nest) festival. The shows Medař and TakkTakk are included in the travel catalogue of the Czech Institute of Theatre Art. FRAS regularly performs at theatre festivals both in Czechia and abroad. Since 2021, it has been collaborating with the experimental space Mengi and SÍM residency in Reykjavík; their co-productions include Takk Takk and Kosmokopce (Cosmohills).
Thursday 6. 11. 2025 at 17:00
Minor – big stage
Černý partyzán / The Black Partisan
Minor Theatre
Duration: 100 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 9+
We are proud to present another extraordinary historic hero, after Luboš Jednorožec (Hunt for Jednorožec), Emil Zátopek (Zá-to-pek!) and the Kopecký Brothers (The Hopeful Brothers). His name is Josef Serinek.
Josef Serinek (1900–1974) was a Czech Roma who used the codename Černý (“Black”) during the war. He fought as a soldier in the First World War, and during the Second World War was detained at the Lety concentration camp, from which he escaped to join the anti-Nazi resistance. Later, he became the leader of a partisan unit active in the Bohemian-Moravian highlands. After the war, Serinek opened a pub called U Partyzána –The Partisan’s. He was supposed to be forgotten, and so were the events he took part in… Josef Serinek was awarded several accolades, the Černý partyzán initiative was launched in his memory, and the Triáda publishing house produced an extensive book Česká cikánská rapsodie which tells the story of his legendary life. Join us as we retrace the steps of the “Black Partisan” and experience a real Czech Western!
Directed by Janek Jirků
Set design: Jakub Kopecký
Costumes: Andrea Králová
Music: Jiří Hradil
Performed by Gustav Hašek, Václav Jelínek, Josef Havelka, Ondřej Nosálek, Richard Samko, Hedvika Řezáčová, Daniela Šišková
Band: Dalibor Mucha, Luboš Nohavica, Martin Švec, Tomáš Vychytil
About the Theatre
Minor Theatre is one of the most significant institutions dedicated to young audiences in the Czech Republic. With roots dating back to 1950, when it was founded as Ústřední loutkové divadlo (Central Puppet Theatre), Minor has become a major player in modern theatre for children and young people. Its current repertoire reflects contemporary social issues as well as key moments in Czech history.
Minor Theatre is located in the centre of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, and offers cultural experiences for the entire family. In addition to two theatre halls, the venue includes an interactive gallery, a shop focused on children’s literature and art, and spaces for workshops and educational activities. Each year, Minor stages around 550 performances, catering to a wide range of audiences – from toddlers to high school students.
Dramaturgy and Staging Style
One of Minor’s main goals is to keep children engaged, and they visit the theatre regularly for several years. To achieve this, the theatre offers a varied and diverse repertoire. Alongside drama, musicals, puppet theatre, and movement performances, Minor also incorporates multimedia productions, new circus, and live music performed by the theatre’s own band.
Thursday 6. 11. 2025 at 19:00
Divadlo v Dlouhé
Golem
Divadlo v Dlouhé
Duration: 2 hours
Suitable for audiences aged 12+
One of the most mysterious stories in Prague’s history comes alive on stage just a few dozen meters from the very place where it is said to have taken place. Or perhaps where it is still unfolding? Join us as we follow the trail of the legend of the Golem, which has fascinated the people of Prague, writers, scientists, rulers, as well as theatre- and film-makers for centuries. Alongside them there are the countless adventurers who have tried, and continue to try, to find the Golem, so far in vain. But why? What makes this mythical protector of the Jewish Quarter so compelling even today? What exactly is it? And how does its story tie in with the legend of Doctor Faust? Let’s rediscover lost places, half-forgotten tales and the fates of those who longed to achieve immortality, whatever immortality means.
Subject: Iva Pecháčková
Directed by: Jakub Vašíček
Dramaturgy: Tomáš Jarkovský
Stage design: Karel Czech
Music: Daniel Čámský
Performed by Marie Turková, Martin Matejka, Jan Vondráček, Eva Hacurová, Magdalena Zimová, Pavel Tesař, Tomáš Turek, Jan Staněk, Slávek Brabec
About the Company
Divadlo v Dlouhé is a repertoire theatre with a stable group of actors established in 1996 and financed by the Municipality of Prague. It focuses on bold dramaturgy and intergenerational dialogue in productions for both adults and children. Its identity is based on the experimental principles of studio theatres, characterized by genre and style diversity and a permanent search for a living form of contemporary theatrical language.
Thursday 6. 11. 2025 a 20.30
Alfred ve dvoře – big stage
CONCERT - Jelení loje
Lipstick Deer Cabaret
Musical cabaret
A charming, feminine, singing body with accompaniment.
Four does and one deer in songs both timid and wild.
Jelení loje is a band that, thanks to a unique combination of energy, singing and dancing, is absorbed by your body much faster than standard bands.
With its pleasant tones, the band heals every broken soul and injects fun right in the veins.
Available for your convenience in all specialized clubs.
There are no known cases of overdose. Our four does and one deer (not tested on animals) are perfect for your tired heart which will gain long-lasting softness, a radiant shine and a rhythmic pulse.
Performers:
Elena Volpi – Loutkové divadlo Maribor, Divadlo Športniki
Václav Jelínek – Bratři v tricku, Divadlo Minor
Jana Nosálková – Divadlo Kaká, Divadlo Nosálci
Johana Vavřínová – Divadlo DRAK, Divadlo Športniki, Studio DAMÚZA
Anna Theimer – voice actress and freelance actress
Friday 7. 11. 2025 at 10:00
Minor – big stage
Ole! Andersen! Pohádky pana Zavřiočky / Ole! Andersen! Mr. ZavřiočkA’s fairy tales
Divadlo Alfa, Plzeň
Duration: 70 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 6+
Close your eyes, here I come!
Who is it? Of course it’s Mr Ole Zavřiočka. They say he brings fairytale dreams.
We all dream. Children and adults alike. Dreams can be wild, colourful, joyful, surprising, but
also frightening. Through dreams, our mind tells us things about ourselves that we
don’t always know how to understand. With their fantastical nature, dreams have a lot in common
with fairy tales: impossible things happen in them, and they carry important messages.
Well, actually, there may be children or adults who don’t dream, or rather who don’t remember
their dreams (scientists claim that everyone dreams). Is it because of Ole Zavřiočka, who
distributes dreams with his magical umbrellas and who decides which child is “good” and which is
“naughty”? But how can one even tell? And what if a boy who never dreams at all suffers
because of it? And longs for the fairy tales brought by Ole Zavřiočka? Maybe also because
nobody tells him stories at home?
Luckily, he has friends who can teach him how to dream, who can show him how to experience all
sorts of adventures in his dreams, sometimes even with elements from the lesser- and better-
known fairy tales of the world-famous Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen. Because
Ole Zavřiočka cannot always be relied upon, and people do need to dream…
So off we go into dreams! In them, everything is possible – you can even dream that you are
dreaming. Dreams can be so much fun, and sometimes a little sad. At least in our fairy tales,
where the dream merchant Ole Zavřiočka appears.
Directed by: Šimon Spišák
Stage design: Karel Czech
Dramaturgy: Petra Kosová
Music: Jindřich Čížek
About the Company
Alfa Theatre’s direct forerunner, the Children’s Theatre, opened in September 1966 in the ALFA house on Americká Street. In 1992 it moved to a modern building at Rokycanská 7 and changed its name. Since 1970, the theatre has been on more than 100 international tours. Since 1967, the theatre has co-organised the Skupa’s Pilsen festival. The theatre has been led by Jakub Hora since the beginning of 2015. Its current creative team together with external colleagues and the company of ten actors favours a comedic approach to theatre, in which they continue to view the puppet as a dominant and unusually attractive stage phenomenon. The theatre addresses a broad audience – children, young people and adults. The repertoire is varied in both theme and genre, from classic and modern fairytales to drama from all over the world.
Friday 7. 11. 2025 at 15:00 and 17:00
Alfred ve dvoře – Mimprovizace
Soudružky s kroužky / Loops and Hoops
Dominik Migač – Marta Hermannová – Jan Pichler
Duration: 45 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 14+
A puppet and multimedia production about the Spartakiad, infinity, and life in Czechoslovakia during the period known as Normalisation.
The production combines traditional, two-dimensional paper puppet theatre with complex technologies. This results in a unique combination of live puppet animation with machine-like precision.
“The technological level of the production, combined with live acting, can uncover to the viewer a completely new perspective on the possibilities of puppet theater,” says Marta Hermannová.
Soudružky s kroužky is set in the period of Normalisation in Czechoslovakia and thematically focuses on the characteristic features and the atmosphere of this era. An important theme is the Spartakiad and its impact – both the real one and the one portrayed by totalitarian media. The production avoids linguistic barriers and is therefore accessible to a wide audience.
Creative team: Dominik Migač, Marta Hermannová, Jan Pichler
Photography: Barbora Žentelová
Models: Dita Kaplanová, Sára Vosobová
Production: Magdalena Krumplová
Special thanks: Maxmilián Guha, Hza Bažant, Tereza Černohorská, Veronika Holcová, Eva Stará, Patricie Jelínková, Anna Hubená, Jana Ševčík, Jakub Maksymov
Performed by Dominik Migač, Marta Hermannová, Jan Pichler
About
Dominik Migač is an actor, artist, and experimenter in the field of object, material, puppet, and multimedia theatre. He graduated from the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre at DAMU. As a creator and performer, he has already made a name for himself with several projects, such as the production Prefaby, which received accolades as the Puppet Production of the Year from Divadelní noviny. In his work, he focuses on innovative technological approaches and combines various forms of theatrical expression. He specializes in miniature puppets and themes from the second half of the 20th century.
The project was created with financial support from the Ministry of Culture, the State Fund for Culture, Prague 6 City District, donors from the Donio platform, the Alfred ve dvoře theatre and the LOUTEX festival.
Friday 7. 11. 2025 at 16:00 and 18.30
Alfred ve dvoře – small stage
Shakespearova loutková mše / Shakespearean Puppet Mass
KHWOSHCH, Gosteva, Dobrodinská
Duration: 50 minutes
For adult audiences
A visual and musical collage of Shakespearean texts that become voices coming from elsewhere and turn into images embroidered in precious fabrics and jewels, printed on sugar paper, painted on a brass plate. Glimpses of stories, characters and texts unfold into a material ritual, led by two women around the Globe’s jewellery box. Enter the famous theatre on the banks of the Thames and experience a festive space-time of dreaming and imagination.
The project is realized with the financial support of the DAMU, the Ministry of Culture, Nová síť z. s. and Prague 7, the District of Art and Culture.
Performers: Daria Gosteva, Anastázie Dobrodinská
Music: Mathias Baresel, Frieda Gawenda
Scenography: Daria Gosteva
Dramaturgy: KHWOSHCH
Production: Ondřej Sosna
About the group:
KHWOSHCH is a Czech-Russian-German group, operating between Prague and Berlin. Their debut in 2021 was Dinopera, a prehistoric tragic opera featuring arias performed by extinct animals, including dinosaurs. The group continuously focuses on experimental puppet theatre which it blends with diverse scenic forms. These include ballet (The Nutcracker. Vegetable Ballet), text-based drama (Shakespearean Puppet Mass), and research of the phenomenon of object animation itself (Heavy Theatre). Practicing the Devised Theatre approach, KHWOSHCH places strong emphasis on material and sound as core dramaturgical components.
Friday 7. 11. 2025 at 20:00
Alfred ve dvoře – big stage
Rezavá Anna aneb Zač je toho kost! / Rusty Anna – Enough is Enough!
Geisslers Hofcomoedianten
Duration: 60 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 15+
Rusty Anna is dying! How will she secure her place in paradise when she has ruled her subjects cruelly all her life, sinned, and squandered her wealth on gambling? A piece of holy flesh for every sin! The willing seller will gladly leaf through his catalogue, give advice and sell. How much will Anna pay for her redemption? It could be quite a (dis)respectable business. Long live relics!
The production is loosely based on the legends of Rusty Anna, the Countess of Střílky in Moravia, and the phenomenon of collecting relics and storing them in figurative reliquaries.
Concept: Claudia Eftimiadisová, Lucie Valenová, Helena Koblischková
Dramaturgy and text: Helena Koblischková
Directing supervision: Petr Hašek
Music: Tomáš Kůgel
Puppets and set design: Bára Čechová
Costumes: Tereza Šůstková
Lights: Filip Blažek
Performed by Lucie Valenová, Claudia Eftimiadisová
Geisslers Hofcomoedinten is an established independent theatre company that combines old traditions with live contemporary theatre. Drawing inspiration from the Baroque, the theatre mixes the old and the new, the poetic and the lowbrow, the tragic and the comic, drama, music, puppetry and dance for our (and therefore your) entertainment.
Geisslers Hofcomoedianten was founded in Kuks, Czech Republic, in 2002, together with the establishment of the Theatrum Kuks festival of Baroque and Baroque-inspired art. Since then, the company has created over thirty full-length productions, as well as shorter street theatre pieces. It has earned the recognition of audiences and critics, performed at numerous festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad (including a month-long tour of the United States) and founded the Festival of Castle and Cloister Theatres which takes place in all regions of the Czech Republic. Since 2014, its home stage in Prague has been the island theatre VILA Štvanice.
Saturday 8. 11. 2025 at 10:00
Minor – big stage
Nebojsa / The Fearless One
Malé divadlo
Duration: 55 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 4+
It is important to be afraid! Spiritism for the youngest spectators.
What do children do when they don’t feel like sleeping? They tell each other ghost stories. So quietly that their parents can’t hear them. Like the one about The Fearless One. The Fearless One isn’t scared of anything. But his wife is very worried about him. One day, she sends him into the world to learn what fear is. But the horns of all the devils are too short for him, and he sees all the wizardry of the enchanted forest as terribly funny.
A scary and witty puppet show about how being scared can be terribly important.
Directed by: Peter Varga
Stage design: Barbora Hubená
Music: Petr Šmíd
Dramaturgy: Marie Nováková
Performed by Dana Ibragimová, Denisa Maršán Posekaná, Martin Dobíšek, Václav Hoskovec, Petr Hubík, Vlastimil Žwak
About the Company
Malé divadlo has been operating in České Budějovice since 1949. In 2004, it became part of the South Bohemian Theatre, alongside its drama, opera and ballet components. It focuses on productions for children and young audiences of secondary and tertiary schools. It has its own stage in Hradební Street. The theatre also creates annual summer productions for the Revolving Auditorium in Český Krumlov and has become famous for projects such as Kašpárek v rohlíku.
Saturday 8. 11. 2025 at 10:00
Minor – big stage
Akce Rosomák / Operation Wolverine
Naivní divadlo Liberec
Duration: 45 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 4+
Little Šimon sets off with his father to spend the night in the forest. And although he is equipped with a lot of good advice and rules to follow when staying in the wilderness, everything goes wrong a few seconds after arrival. He’s kidnapped by a fox! Fortunately, it soon turns out that the fox and his animal colleagues need Šimon’s help. The animals in the forest are bothered by a wolverine who is angry at the whole world and no one knows why. Maybe Šimon could find out, and help the forest quell the wolverine’s anger. Or help the wolverine with whatever is bothering it. Or both. Either way, Šimon will have to join forces with his new friends to get to the bottom of the forest mystery and ensure that peace returns to the forest so he can return home.
Author and directed by: Johana Bártová
Dramaturgy: Vít Peřina
Set design: Robert Smolík
Music: Jakub Šulík
Performed by Jakub Müller, Petr Štěpánek, Antonín Týmal
About the Company
Naivní divadlo Liberec was founded in 1949 as one of the first professional Czech puppet theatres. It is one of the leading puppet theatres in the country, focusing mainly on children and young people. Every two years, it organises the international festival of puppet productions for preschool children called Mateřinka. The theatre strongly supports strong auteur visionaries and above all strives to produce puppet shows, regardless of whether the term puppet means figurative, object-oriented or otherwise visual theatre.
Saturday 8. 11. 2025 at 12:00
Minor – Ponorka
Maryška
Frgál na nitkách, Brno
Duration: 30 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 10+
Based on the play Maryša by the Mrštík brothers. Maryška wants to leave (but who doesn’t?). Maryška wants love (but who doesn't?). Maryška wants to take her life into her own hands (but who doesn’t?). To be perfectly honest, this performance could also be about you. And about everyone you know.
Author: the Mrštík Brothers, Maryša
Directed by: Frgál na nitkách
Set design: Františka Jelínková and Adéla Zatloukalová
Costumes: Matka Jelínková
Music: Adéla Zatloukalová and Jonáš Heger
Musical accompaniment: Adéla Zatloukalová and Jonáš Heger
Performed by Františka Jelínková, Marie Gregorová, Adéla Zatloukalová, Prokop Jelínek, Jonáš Heger
About the Company
Frgál is, of course, a Moravian cake, but it’s also an acronym: F for photogenic, R for reluctant, G for genius, A for authentic and L for love.
Saturday 8. 11. 2025 at 15:00
Minor – Uši
Kocour v botách / Puss in Boots
Loutky v nemocnici
Duration: 45 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 4+
Mus musculus, the house mouse. A small mammal, order Rodentia, family Muridae. Characteristic pointed snout, round ears, long tail. The eternal terror of millers. For millennia, humanity has been trying to deal with this invasive enemy. We have tried everything: traps, poison, rat catchers, persuasion, begging. However, none of these methods have proven as effective as… a cat… or a tomcat? … PUSS IN BOOTS!
The puppet fairy tale “Puss in Boots” takes you on a journey full of unexpected twists and turns and cheerful adventures. Let yourself be carried away by a story in which friendship, courage and cleverness triumph.
Directed by: Matyáš Míka
Concept and dramaturgy: Marka Míková
Puppets: Magdalena Mézlová and Václav Krčál
Screenplay and Music: Matyáš Míka and David Bolech
Set design: Zuzana Štancelová
Performed by Matyáš Míka and David Bolech
About the Company
The Puppets in Hospitals Association is dedicated to drama therapy and develops a range of activities in the field of psychosocial care. For over eighteen years, it has been working to make children’s stays in hospitals and sanatoriums more comfortable.
Saturday 8. 11. 2025 at 16:00
Minor – small stage
Pelech / The Nest
Spolek TMEL
Duration: 50 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 7+
Wordless
A puppet expedition through an unknown wilderness for audiences aged seven and up. Who is wriggling under the rocks? One animal wants to eat the others, another tries to outsmart everyone; some cooperate, others compete, and some just prefer to hide. But what happens when you lose the safety of your nest?
Through the unusual material of red sand and raw fiberglass, we uncover layers of a hostile desert planet and its story. You will meet many different members of a unique entangled ecosystem: a little creature which struggles to find a new shell, a fast-evolving species, hungry predators and mysterious pilgrims on their way to complete an important quest.
Though small in scale, The Nest opens up a vast, intricate world where even the tiniest creature can shift the balance of an entire planet. Told without words and accompanied by a rich, imaginative soundscape, it invites the audience to come and witness this strange place.
Direction: Viktor Prokop
Set design: Berta Doubková
Dramaturgy and music: Jan Froněk
Performed by Jakub Müller, Nikolas Ferenc / Marie Machová
About the company
TMEL is a theatre group founded in 2021 for the production O for Otesánek, which has been successfully performed at both domestic and international festivals. Since then, TMEL has continued to explore unconventional materials and tell original stories without language barriers.
Saturday 8. 11. 2025 at 17:00
Minor – big stage
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Těšínské divadlo Bajka
Duration: 50 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 10+
Life is like a grand carnival, a massive circus, where, amid the antics of the clowns, the courage of wild animal tamers and the grace of acrobats, the ordinary course of life also unfolds. Like love blooming between paper roses. Or the miracles of a fortune-teller who just might have the power to transform hatred and anger into wisdom, understanding and forgiveness.
Have you heard of Victor Frankenstein? He is a scientist who sought to be a creator – or perhaps a monster himself? In his longing for greatness and with self-absorbed enthusiasm, he overlooked one thing of immense significance: the consequences of his ambition. Come and discover how it all truly unfolded.
Direction and adaptation: Lukáš Bouzek
Stage design: Jitka Barnetová
Music: Daniela Sedláčková
Dramaturgical collaboration: Lena Pešák
Puppets: Pavel Skorkovský
Puppet costumes: Ivana Kolondrová
Performed by Juliána Hamranová, Ewa Kus, Dorota Grycz, Wanda Michałek, Marek Moravec, Jan Szymanik, Jakub Tomoszek
About the Company
Bajka is the puppet stage of the Těšín Theatre, a unique cultural and theatrical institution in Central Europe. It performs its productions in two languages, Czech and Polish, and each of its three stages – ČESKÁ SCÉNA | SCENA POLSKA | BAJKA – has its own dramaturgy and artistic direction. This exceptional coexistence is the cornerstone of the theatre’s longevity and creates cultural and societal bonds. It’s also a constant source of mutual artistic inspiration for all three ensembles.
Saturday 8. 11. 2025 at 19:00
Minor – small stage
Jabka / Apples
Hana Voříšková and Markéta Stránská, Choceň
Length: 25 minutes
Suitable for ages 12+
A tabletop theatre performance with the scent of apples and memories. At our house, we all cut out the apple cores. Grandma did it, Mom did it, Dad did it and I do it too… Nothing was thrown away at our house.
Directed by: ensemble
Set design: Hana Voříšková
Music: Markéta Stránská
Performed by: Hana Voříšková and Markéta Stránská
About the company
Hanka Voříšková is a theatrical loner who occasionally approaches musicians to collaborate with her. She first met Markéta Stránská, a dancer and puppeteer, at the DNO theatre in Hradec Králové. Later, Hanka heard that Markéta was learning to play the clarinet. When Hanka began rehearsing Jabka, she realized she needed music. So she approached Markéta with an offer to be both the puppeteer and the musician. Markéta accepted the offer and began practicing the clarinet some more. They have known each other for a long time, but this will be the first time they have played together.
Followed by
Maryša Vávrová
Bažantova loutkářská družina, Poniklá
Duration: 25 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 12+
The play was commissioned for the first year of the Prague festival The Emperor’s New Clothes, dedicated in January 2025 to the memory of the extraordinary theatre scholar Professor Jan Císař. The organisers wanted a performance of either Maryša (the professor’s favourite play), or any play with lots of apples in it (in reference to his claim that the apple was an overused symbol in theatre).
Maryša Vávrová is an attempt to combine both assignments by an author who does not know the dialect the play was originally written in, so this Maryša will speak in her own way. Our apologies to the Mrštík family and everyone who likes the classic Maryša.
The play, loosely based on the work Alois and Vilém Mrštík, is written and performed by Tomáš Hájek.
About the Company
For many years, Bažant’s puppet company from Poniklá was associated only with the overhead projector. So much so that it now has the ambition to prove to itself and its esteemed audience that it can do without one. Although, to be honest, it’s not easy.
Saturday 8. 11. 2025 at 20.30
Minor – big stage
CONCERT - FEKETE SERETLEK
Progressive Theatrical Folk
dead since 2005
From polyrhythmic Macedonian tunes to Czech-flavoured salsa, Orwellian post-apocalyptic anthems to Bulgarian disco, Russian-klezmer lullabies to English death-waltzes. Fekete Seretlek blends genres and cultures to create a unique fusion rooted in folk traditions while adding theatrical flair. One minute, you’re in a dark cabaret; the next, you’re swept into a wild dance party that feels like it might never end. Fekete Seretlek doesn’t just play for audiences – they pull you into their chaotic, mystical, dark and playful world full of unexpected twists.
The band was founded at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts and has been playing around the world for 20 years.
Sunday 9. 11. 2025 at 10:00
Minor – Uši
Myška a lasičák / The Mouse and the Weasel
Divadlo b
Duration: 45 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 3+
A production based on Arnold Lobel’s book Mouse Soup. The witty and clever original story gave rise to a small-scale production for one actor or actress, with stage design and puppets by the acclaimed young graduate of the Department of Stage Design at DAMU Jakub Šulík.
The whole play consists of three short fairy tales that the little mouse invents to outsmart a hungry weasel. The weasel wants to eat the mouse, but everything ends well. The mouse is well-read and smart, and the weasel… is just hungry.
Written and directed by: Adriana Kubištová a Radek Beran
Stage design and puppets: Jakub Šulík
Performed by: Radek Beran / Adriana Kubištová
About the Company
In 2016, Radek Beran and René Krupanský created the show The Little Man, loosely based on the film of the same name on which Radek Beran worked as the director and René Krupanský as the puppeteer of the main character. Because of the very positive response, Divadlo b was established. Several more shows for children followed, and a puppet horror film for adolescents in 2018. Gradually, Adriana Máčiková Kubištová, a graduate of the DAMU, became an essential part of the group.
Sunday 9 11. 2025 at 11:00 and 13:00
Minor – small stage
Velká Smůla / Big Bad Luck
MUSAŠI ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY
Duration: 45 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 5+
Big Bad Luck is a puppet show for children about the unpredictability and diversity of nature, about hasty decisions and the importance of verifying your information. Not everything is as it seems at first glance and the colour of the fur does not determine where a bear wants to live. We were inspired by the true story of a brown bear who was born albino and ended up at the North Pole through a misunderstanding.
The project is realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the State Fund for Culture, the City of Prague, the city district of Prague 7 and Klub Letka.
Authors: Adam Páník, Tereza Havlová, Sára Vosobová, Anna Datiashvilli, Františka Jesenská
About the Company
MUSAŠI ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY is focused on auteur theatre, making and crafting scenography, visual arts and audio production. MEC was founded at the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague for the puppet show Entomologious (2020). The main tools of the group’s theatrical work are visual dramaturgy and the nebulous presence of narrative. MEC is active in the sphere of alternative theatre and art installations. In 2023 the group was recognised by the ...příští vlna/next wave... festival as talent of the year. In 2025, the group represented the tradition of Czech puppetry in the Czech Pavilion at EXPO 2025 in Osaka.
Sunday 9 11. 2025 at 12:00
Minor – small stage
Popelka / Cinderella
Miza in Scena, Slovenia, Czech Republic
Duration: 45 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 5+
The international project Cinderella is the debut of the Miza in Scena Theatre. The production will offer a fresh interpretation of the classic fairy tale – a combination of puppets and a musical story, suitable for children, but at the same time open to a wider audience. Various puppet techniques will be used on a small puppet stage.
Directed and written by: Elena Volpi and company
Stage design: Kamil Bělohlávek
Music: Matija Krečič
Performed by Elena Volpi and Johana Vavřinová
About the company
Miza in Scena is a new independent theatre from Slovenia. It focuses on contemporary puppet and alternative theatre with an emphasis on smaller forms. The collective is a group of international artists who explore non-conformist approaches to theatre for all generations. The artistic collective of the production of Cinderella consists of Czech and Slovenian creators.
Sunday 9 11. 2025 at 14:00
Minor – jeviště velkého sálu
Ovečky, ovečky, pojďte domů! / Sheep, Oh, Sheep, Hurry Back Home!
Třetí hřiště
Duration: 50 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 6+
Sheep, Oh, Sheep, Hurry Back Home! is an original production by Třetí hřiště about humans and sheep in the 21st century. The story unfolds from freshly sheared wool through washing and drying to a rolled-up ball. You stand in the grass, in a vast meadow, surrounded by sheep. Work, care, work, work, care. Sheep, oh, sheep, hurry back home! No, we won’t.
The performance is followed by a wool workshop, in which the creators show the audience what wool looks and smells like at various stages of processing. The audience will try out dry and wet felting.
Creators: Anna Zajíček Stenzlová, Filip Novák, Kamila Hrnčířová
Stage design: Josefína Váchová
Třetí hřiště is a creative collective formed at the Department of Authorial Creation and Pedagogy at DAMU.
The project was supported by Nová síť z.s. as a part of the Nová krev na scéně programme.
Sunday 9 11. 2025 at 16:00
Minor – small stage
Charms je vinen / Kharms’s Fault!
Theatro Matita
Duration: 60 minutes
Suitable for adults
Czech premiere of a new show by the well-known Slovenian puppeteer Matija Solce. This new solo performance combines object-based theatre of the absurd with a live concert. Just as in the 1930s, when one of the last representatives of the Russian avant-garde, Daniil Kharms, embodied the idealistic artistic struggle through his works, the creators of this show, a hundred years later, provoke contemporary stereotypes with absurd situations of falling grandmothers. In the end, everyone is going to die. But they’ll die in style.
With the poetics of object theatre, grotesque vocal vignettes as well as refined animation of soft, partially realistic puppets, the actor presents humorous situations that convey the issues of the present in an ironic and gentle way and criticise social norms.
Author: Matija Solce, Daniil Kharms
Directed by: Matija Solce
Music performed by: Matija Solce
Stage design: Larisa Kazić
Dramaturgy: Miha Razdrih
Sound: Ivo Gregorec Sedláček
Manufacturing: Matija Solce, Larisa Kazić, Martin Neduha, Ludek Sedlaž, Ivo Gregorec Sedláček
About the Company
Teatro Matita
Musician, puppeteer, actor and director as well as puppetry teacher, festival organiser and activist. In his works, he closely connects music and theatre; his concerts often turn into interactive theatre performances and his puppet shows become musical compositions. With his accordion and suitcase full of puppets, he travelled around the globe, in venues as extreme as prisons, ashrams, people’s bedrooms and big halls at international festivals. He has received more than 20 awards.
Apart from his solo shows, he also directs in various theatres. He established Teatro Matita in 2002 after completing his studies at Bruno Leone’s traditional Italian hand puppet school in Naples, Italy. He teaches puppet students in theatre academies (DAMU in Prague) and gives workshops on puppet animation for adults and children.
Sunday 9 11. 2025 at 17:00
Minor – Ponorka
Plechovka, maják a ryba / The Tin, the Lighthouse and the Fish
R405
Duration: 40 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 5+
Will the lighthouse keeper succeed in restoring the sea’s calmness?
An audiovisual story about an adventurous journey on and under the water.
The sea, its inhabitants and lots of sand.
Created by Vavřinec Němec, Alena Novotná
Music, stage design: Vavřinec Němec
Performed by Vavřinec Němec, Alena Novotná
About the Company
R405 is a puppet ensemble that was founded in 2022 at KALD DAMU. After its first audiovisual production “Little Riding Hood, or What Goes Around, Doesn’t Come That Easy”, the group developed a new show, The Tin, the Lighthouse and the Fish, featuring a smaller ensemble. It builds on the poetics established by the first production.
Sunday 9. 11. 2025 at 19.30
Palác Akropolis
Light in the Darkness
Tantehorse
Duration: 75 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 15+
The main impulse of Light in the Darkness was the thought of creating a challenging compositional whole which would draw from the richness of mime theatre in all its varied forms. This is an exceptional, theatrically expressive undertaking of high art depictions of death, love and hell, fronted by precise technical physical expression, utilizing props, puppets, masks, and the highest forms of modern mime and dance. The creators were inspired by Dante’s Inferno, passages from Marquis de Sade as well as the spiritual influence of Bach’s The Art of Fugue.
The poetic nature of the work spans from Surrealism and decadence, aspects of Rococo and Mannerism, all the way to themes reminiscent of the paintings of Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico and the films of Jan Švankmajer, Ingmar Bergman and Peter Greenaway.
This unique creation of two renowned authors, choreographers, directors, and performers, Miřenka Čechová and Radim Vizváry, was met with thunderous international success upon its premiere in 2013. The artists sold out the Atlas Theatre in Washington three times, were covered by the Washington Post twice and received much praise from their colleagues who are at the forefront of the American art scene.
Authors and performers: Miřenka Čechová, Radim Vizváry
Co-director: Petr Boháč
Music: Matouš Hekela
Set design and costumes: Petra Vlachynská, Lucia Škandíková
Light design: Martin Špetlík, Jiří Šmirk
About the Company
Tantehorse is a Czech theatre company which acts as a platform for original works, producing high quality, socially resonating shows, as well as a production company which creates space for new choreographers and authors in the field of dance and movement art.
