Antiwords

Spitfire Company & Palác Akropolis

Company
Spitfire Company is considered to be one of the most progressive ensembles in the Czech Republic at present and sees itself as an open platform for physical and visual theatre as well as music and dance theatre. The group has received many awards for its works, including the Herald Angel Award last year at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh.

Performance
Glasses clink, beer froths and fizzes. Two women with outsized, bald, full-face masks, satirise a lengthy boozing session as an act of male violence and power ritual. The origins of Antiwords lie in Václav Havel’s legendary play ‘Audience’ from 1975. There, a party conformist brewer drinks nine half-litres of beer while he tries to persuade a former writer-turned-labourer to write informers’ reports. In a far cry from the political-ideological context of that era, the fundamental themes of Havel’s one-act play – threat, denial, steadfastness and a lust for destruction – are wordlessly revealed here by hard drinkers with a coarse humour.

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Director: Petr Boháč
Cast: Jindřiška Křivánková, Tereza Havlíčková
Costumes, Masks: Paulina Skavova
Lighting: Martin Spetlik
Sound, Music: Sivan Eldar
Surtitling: Spitfire
Translation: Karen Witthuhn

When: Oct. 29th 2014, 9.15 p.m. / Oct. 30th 2014, 9.00 p.m.
Where: Waschhaus, Schiffbauergasse 6
Entrance fee: Price category B
Length: 50 min, in Czech with German surtitles
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Sponsored by Deutsch-Tschechischen-Zukunftsfonds, Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin

Kindly supported by Waschhaus Potsdam