Theatre Night at the Václav Havel Library
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: November 19, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00
As part of this year’s Theatre Night, we are offering visitors two titles, both of which are in their own way archival.
19:00 Václav Havel: Ela, Hela and the Hitch
Student theatre production of a 1961 Václav Havel micro-play performed by the Charlieho foxíci company from the George of Poděbrady Grammar School in Poděbrady.
Starring: Tereza Soběslavová, Lenka Skalická and Kateřina Urbánková.
Old ladies are hitching for the first time. They have their ethical principles, their flowerpots, their planter boxes, their rollmops, their crosses and habits and their social position.
19:30 Václav Havel: Temptation
Video production filmed almost 30 years ago in “field” conditions in the deep totalitarian period
Divadlo na tahu (Na Tahu Theatre, director Andrej Krob
Premiere 14. 4. 1988
As a banned playwright, there was no way Václav Havel could see his play on stage in 1985. Therefore Andrej Krob decided to use new “dissident” video cameras to shoot Temptation with friends of his and Václav’s. All involved learned camera and microphone work, acting and editing “on the hoof”. However, in the end the author was pleased with the two-and-a-half-hour production, praising the creators for not losing the meaning of the play despite the naïve rawness of the video. By contrast he found the authenticity of the amateur actors to be exceptional.
Starring Ivan M. Havel and Lukáš Hraběta. Also featuring Karel Bureš, Jarmila Bělíková, Aleš Duda, Sylvie Krobová, Jana Sekyrová, Petr Taťoun, Jiří Mrázek, Dagmar Havlová-Ilkovičová, Ivan Sekyra, Petruška Šustrová, Jan Kašpar and others.