Theatre Night 2018 – The Power of the Powerless
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: November 17, 2018, 19:00 – 24:00
The date of this year’s Theatre Night, 17 November, is crucial in Czech history. Theatre and revolution had already been intertwined several times when 29 years ago people of the theatre offered the revolution their stage and became key movers, with the informal leader of the revolution being the dramatist, essayist, human rights activist and later president of the country Václav Havel.
We have drawn on this connection and invited Brno’s Divadlo Feste theatre company to bring a theatrical collage of The Power of the Powerlessto the VHL. “The text is very topical in a highly unpleasant way. I’m stunned at how deeply the atmosphere of normalisation is again palpable in an every day manner…,” says director Jiří Honzírek.
The production is not staged indoors but in public spaces in cities and towns, with each new and original performance informed by the character of the place in question. Many such spots are to be found around the Václav Havel Library in Ostrovní St.
Theatre Night, part of the international European Theatre Night project, is coordinated in the Czech Republic by the Arts and Theatre Institute in Prague and aims to present theatre in a creative and non-traditional form.