OFF Programme
Open Festival Forum (OFF)
Multimedia Project
Anna Grusková and Archa Theatre
Chance ´89
Freedom! Freedom?
Wednesday 30 September 2009, 21:00 – 23.00
without intermission, Andrej Bagar Theatre – Studio
language: Czech and Slovak, simultaneously translated into English
Archa Theatre, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
directed by Jana Svobodová
More information about project Chance '89 – Window of Opportunity
working demo – staged reading
Kerstin Specht (DE), Robert Woelfl (AT), Anna Grusková (SK), Ákos Németh (HU), Uglješa Šajtinac (RS), Nina Mitrovič(HR), Peca Stefan (RO), Jurij Dačev (BG), Pavel Paduraru (MD), Oleksandr Irvanec (UA)
Donaudrama ©
(ten countries – ten authors – one river – one play)
staged reading, working demo within the festival platform – Open Festival Forum (OFF)
Tuesday 29 September 2009, 15:00 – 16:30
without intermission, Old Theatre – Tatra
directed by Anna Grusková
Have you realized the succession of the countries the above-mentioned authors come from? It is the Danube’s flow. Initiated by playwright Bernhard Studlar and dramaturg Wolfgang Stahl from Austrian wiener wortstaetten artistic association, ten authors from the Danube river countries met in autumn 2OO8 and wrote together 9 dramatic texts which create a unique play entitled DONAUDRAMA©. Many of the authors deal with their socialist past and the consequences of political and social changes after the fall of the Iron Curtain: the economically and socially motivated exodus to the West, unemployment, instability of society, chaos and failure in human relationships, contrariety between personally and socially accepted values. The male and female heroes of the stories are mainly uprooted people, outsiders, losers and day-dreamers. The Divadelná Nitra Association initiated the transfer of this original text to the stage in a working demo form. By this, an intense multi-media composition was developed, taking us down the stream of the second biggest European river from its source in Germany to its influx to the Black Sea.
