PLAYING

Grillenparz (Thomas Arzt )

Mama Guerilla / The Secret Report from Planet Mother (Anna Saavedra )

The Farm (David Gieselmann )

After Fredrik (Mattias Brunn )

Terminus (Mark O´Rowe )

The Confession of a Masochist (Roman Sikora )

Roman Sikora’s politically incorrect cabaret split the Czech theatre critique, received frenetic responses from the spectators, and was immediately and with great success introduced to audiences in Berlin and Paris.

Mr. M is not an ordinary citizen. Mr. M beforehand agrees with all governmental financial cuts. It excites him to have several employment contracts, despite of gaining a poor salary for them, and despite all the bullying. Mr. M wants to suffer. Mr. M is a Masochist.

During his confession he exposes his “Simple Life Instructions Manual”. He shows us that only during the times of economical crises we can be truly happy, and he gives us advice how to achieve this. He explains why leftists are boring, and how Nazi sympathizers are
different, why Czechs are better than the Chinese, and what does the Minister
of Finance Mirek together with the Prime Minister Péťa think about all this.

Theatre Letí with great wit and skill seized the opportunity to present this text. Tomáš Kobr, the performer of the masochist, plays his deviant wretch with moderation, he does not overact his
perverse thinking, he naturally plays with the inverse language, and in spite
of or maybe thanks to the usage of so many absurd unrealistic means he creates
a character that the spectator can identify with.

Theatre Letí actors elegantly perform the roles of horses, individual bosses, the skilfully handle the whip on a very small stage. The artistic solution is restrained and amusing, the harshly poetic as well as charming brothel dominatrix as the metaphor of the crises who
with a blasé in her voice peevishly accepts orders for sadistic practices. On
the stage we see many new faces of actors who are not only masters of their
craft but at the same time who know what they want to convey, which they are
being led by a remarkable woman in contemporary Czech theatre, the stage
director Martina Schlegelová.

Alena Zemančíková, Deník Referendum
(online), 31^st January, 2011

After a long time I have seen a play by a contemporary Czech playwright that responds to the newest tendencies of our reform government... They play has its message, it is performed by keen actors
– especially I would like to point out the performance of Tomáš Kobr in the
title role. The play was awarded by both an applause as well as laughter on an
open stage. The Masochist “only” analyses – he does not offer any solutions. I
know that on the next premiere of a play by Roman Sikora I will not have to
worry about the fate of the evening.

Karel Vondruška, Britské Listy, 10^thOctober, 2011

This season the call for an original political satire on Czech stages was heard by the Theatre Letí and their production of a play by Roman Sikora, Confessions of a Masochist. Beforehand it is important to mention that it is an important and a very good attempt at a
contemporary Czech political play, a phenomenon so unique here.

Ester Žantovská, SAD
04/2011

Date of premiere 21/01/2011

Director Martina Schlegelová
Dramaturgy Marie Špalová
Music Stanislav Halbrštát
Stage design Jana Špalová
Costume design Aneta Grňáková
Performed by Tomáš Kobr, Richard Fiala, Tomáš Jeřábek a Zuzana Onufráková

FORTHCOMING SHOWS

8@8 Illusion (Ivan Vyrypajev )

iPlay (Bernhard Studlar )

8@8 KILL HILL™ (Viliam Klimáček )

The Interviews With Astronauts (Felicia Zellerová )

ARCHIVE

Inscenace divadla Letí

Aupairs (Viliam Klimáček )

Pool (no water) (Mark Ravenhill )

Gott ist ein DJ (Falk Richter )

Mother Clap´s Molly House (Mark Ravenhill )

Due fratelli (Fausto Paravidino )

Elevator (Gabriel Pintilei )

Elle Girls (Radmila Adamová )

Leti (Olga Muchinová )

Na věky (Magdalena Frydrychová )

In A Little World Of Our Own (Gary Mitchell )

PRAHA LETÍ (kolektiv autorů )

Mercury Fur (Philip Ridley )

This Lime Tree Bower (Conor McPherson )

Tod und Teufel (Peter Turrini )

I Am My Own Wife (Doug Wright )

Osama the Hero (Dennis Kelly )

Zazděná / Immured (Barbora Vaculová )

Inscenace Letí

The world premiere of Zazděná/Mauerschau took place in September. Theatre LETÍ with Zazděná / Mauerschau was the only representative of the Czech Republic in the international project After the Fall with theatres like Royal Court Theatre in London, Teatr Stary in Cracow, Abbey Theatre in Dublin or the National Theatre in Copenhagen. The aim of the international theatre project "After the Fall" is to remember the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and consequences of this revolution for Germany and Europe in general. The Goethe-Institute addressed theatre and playwrights in 15 countries and they acquired 19 authors who wrote plays that reflected social-political changes in their country and 17 theatre subjects that staged these plays. Young playwright Barbora Vaculová wrote the play Zazděná/Mauerschau with a close cooperation with Theatre LETÍ. Music composer Aleš Březina, the owner of A. Radok Award for 2008, wrote music for this staging. The production team was international – artists from Germany (director Susanne Chrudina, stage designer Malve Lippman and actor Claudia Schwarz) as well as from the Czech Republic participated in the staging. The staging is performed in two languages and it is understandable for Czech and German speaking audience.
The performance was presented within the Prague Theatre Festival of the German language and it was invited for the international theatre show in Belgrade.

"It was cleverly written, well-directed theatre that touches upon very essential things."
(Marie Reslová, Economic News)

Date of premiere 14/09/2009

Director Susanne Chrudina a Martina Schlegelová
Dramaturgy Marie Špalová
Stage design Malve Lippmann
Performed by Pavlína Štorková, Tereza Vilišová nebo Anna Bubníková, Tereza Richtrová, Claudia Schwartzová, na klavír doprovází Vladimír Strnad

Inscenace Klubu s vášní pro nové hry

Letí At The Airport - No Rooms In Heaven (více autorů)

( David Gieselmann , Viliam Klimáček , Joe Penhall , Falk Richter )

club

LETÍ AT THE AIRPORT
Pilot project of The Centre for Contemporary Drama

5 European playwrights, 5 short plays, one venue and one topic – the airport
The ceremonial opening of the Contemporary Drama Centre
The best authors connect in a unique project

The performance comprises of five short plays with the main theme being “the airport”. The plays have been written by prominent authors from different European countries: Joe Penhall (Great Britain), Falk Richter (Germany), David Gieselmann (Germany), Viliam Klimáček (Slovakia) and David Drábek (Czech Republic). These playwrights were invited to the first opening at the Prague Airport. Afterwards the production will be staged at the Theatre Na zábradlí under the title No Rooms In Heaven (Letí at the Airport and On the Balustrade); and it will become a part of the theatre’s repertoire.
The theme of the CDC’s pilot project is fast lifestyle of today’s Europe and the airport is the actual symbol of such a lifestyle. The airport serves as a symbol of modern society, its rhythm and its communication. It is a place where individuals and cultures meet. It is a neuralgic point of contemporary society, a place which symbolizes speed, flexibility but also loss of identity, a place outside time and space.

Falk Richter – Electronic Love
Translated by Martin Schwarz
Dramaturgy by Marie Špalová
Stage Design by Petr B. Novák
Costume Design by Vladimíra Fomínová
Music by Ivan Acher
Directed by David Czesany
The cast: Ondřej Veselý, Natálie Řehořová, Natália Drabiščáková, Richard Fiala, Zdena Hadrbolcová, Ladislav Hampl, Igor Chmela, Tomáš Kobr, Ivan Lupták, Leoš Noha, Jiří Ornest, Gabriela Pyšná, Pavlína Štorková

Joy is a completely reliable and flexible working force at an airport fast food. But today she is in total distress. The cash register scanner is out of order and there is about twenty panicky looking hectic managers waiting in the line to pay for their sandwiches. Among them, there is Tom. His main merits are reliability and flexibility. But today he forgot his iPhone PIN code. There is every information there: data, contacts, numbers, codes. Without it he does not know where he actually is, where he has arrived from, where he is flying to. In such a world, is there room for love? Maybe there is room for electronic love...

Falk Richter (1969) was born in Hamburg. Richter studied theatre direction. At present, he is the resident author of the Berliner Schaubühne. Richter directs drama and opera also in other theatre houses, e.g. Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Bayerische Staatsoper, Burgtheater Wien, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Seven Stages Atlanta and Schauspielhaus Zürich. One of his most popular plays God is a DJ (Gott ist ein DJ, 1998)has had 50 different production all over the world. His play Nothing hurts (2000) and a four-part cycle of political theatre The System (Das System) have been shown at Schaubühne since 2004. The agency DILIA offers translations of his plays God is a DJ, Electronic City (from The System cycle) and The Breakdown.

Viliam Klimáček – Me in Prague, Mead in London
Dramaturgy by Marie Špalová
Stage Design by Petr B. Novák
Costume Design by Marián Amsler
Music by Norbi Kovács
Directed by Marián Amsler
The cast: Natália Drabiščáková, Ivan Lupták, Tomáš Kobr

Flight 215 from London to Stanstead. My flight. I’ve spent the time sitting in the bathroom. At first the stewards knocked, and then they realized that the bathroom was the only place where one could be really alone nowadays. One can truly contemplate only in restrooms. A woman in difficulties flies always alone. Baggage handling belt and the light board are the only ones talking to her. So don’t forget to flush so they don’t suspect anything. When the sound of running water is heard, everything’s OK.

Viliam Klimáček was born in 1958 in Trenčín, Slovakia. After finishing his studies at the Medical Faculty at J.A. Komenský University Klimáček worked as a surgeon and anaesthetist. After nine years he quit his medical career and since then he has devoted himself to theatre. Klimáček lives in Bratislava. He received the Alfréd Radok Award for the best Czech and Slovak play six times. Most recently, he was awarded the Alfréd Radok Award for the play Who Is Afraid of Beatles. Since 1985 he has been the artistic director of the independent authorial theatre GUnaGU, where he writes, directs and sometimes also acts.

David Gieselmann – Hello, what?
Translated by Martina Černá
Dramaturgy by Lucie Ferenzová
Stage Design by Petr B. Novák
Costume Design by Vladimíra Fomínová
Music by Ivan Acher
Directed by Thomas Zielinski
The cast: Igor Chmela, Ladislav Hampl, Leoš Noha, Gabriela Pyšná

The flight from Brussels to Copenhagen. They have announced it several times already but I
question myself a little whether I have gone mad: where are we? I’m looking from the plane.
I don’t know where we are but this definitely isn’t Copenhagen. I know the Copenhagen
airport and this is not it. Maybe they have sent us in a different direction. Maybe we have
been hijacked. They’ve deceived us. Whatever is happening, we are not in Copenhagen.
Where am I? A European gangster play for four actors who are in search of a
suitcase full of money coming from Brussels. A turmoil of languages where no one
understands anyone. The airport chaos rules and everyone carries a gun.

David Gieselmann was born in 1972 in Köln. Gieselmann studied playwriting at the art school Hochschule der Künste in Berlin and he staged his first plays at Theaterszene Berlin. In 1999, he was invited to the International Residency of Playwrights and Week of New German Playwrights at the Royal Court Theatre in London. In 2000, his play Mr Kolpert was produced there in the world premiere. Later it was staged in German as well as in Scandinavia, Italy, Greece, Poland, The Czech Republic, Australia, USA, etc.

David Drábek – The Fluff
Dramaturgy by Lucie Ferenzová, Ivana Slámová
Stage Design by Petr B. Novák
Costume Design by Jana Špalová
Directed by Martina Schlegelová
The cast: Pavlína Štorková, Jiří Ornest, Richard Fiala, Zdena Hadrbolcová

In a den made of branches somewhere in the tree top or somewhere inside a wasp nest. Who knows? There about they have met. A girl with black hair which are sticky with blood here and there. A plump man with tiny wings. A semi-naked man. A woman behind the desk is offering them drinks. Her look resembles insect. Someone from the sphinx moth family. Lymantriid browntail moth. She is their guide; she is actually going to teach them how to fly.
David Drábek – a dramatist, director and artistic director of the Klicpera Theatre in Hradec Králové. Drábek graduated from the Arts Faculty of the Palacký University in Olomouc in the field of film and theatre studies. In 1995 Drábek received the Alfréd Radok Award for best play for Joan of the Ark. He also received the Alfréd Radok Award for the best original play of 2003 for his play Aquabelles, which was also awarded the title The Best Czech Play of 2005. In the same year the publishing house Větrné mlýny, Brno published a collection of seven of his plays. His play “The Brothers Mašín Square” was awarded second prize at Alfréd Radok Awards and two years later it was also awarded the title The Best Czech Play of 2009. As author, director and dramaturge he cooperates with the Klicpera Theatre in Hradec Králové, Petr Bezruč Theatre in Ostrava and Theatre Minor in Prague.