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space for experimentation, experience, and collective creation

HaDivadlo has been based in Brno's Alfa Passage since 2004. Since its beginnings in the 1970s, it has built a reputation in Czech theater as a distinctive alternative venue with a unique worldview and original poetics. The original ensemble was founded in 1974 in Prostějov and, under the leadership of Josef Kovalčuk, Svatopluk Vála, and Arnošt Goldflam, moved to Brno in the 1980s. In the early 1990s, it was enriched by its collaboration with J. A. Pitínský's Ochotnický kroužek (Amateur Theater Group). Today, it operates in the former cinema of the functionalist Alfa Palace designed by architect Bohuslav Fuchs.

HaDivadlo has long reflected on critical phenomenons in society and the position of humans in relation to the environment and the future. Its poetics are based on intimate expression, an authorial approach, and an emphasis on intensity, dialogue, and community. Between 2015 and 2025, the theater was shaped by director Ivan Buraj. In September 2025, artistic leadership was taken over by a non-hierarchical collective consisting of Jana Vaverková, Justina Grecová, and Jan Doležel.

The new management strives for horizontal and liberal cooperation, openness to change, and the courage to take risks. Under their leadership, HaDivadlo remains a stage for experimentation, experience, and collective creation — a place where classical texts, adaptations, and original works intertwine. The collective approach is intended to bring a fresh impulse to the Czech theater scene: replacing competitiveness with sharing, directiveness with dialogue, and emphasizing listening as a gesture of ethical sensitivity and balance of power.

In addition to theatre activities, an important part of dramaturgy is off-program activities, which bring non-theatrical events to life in a performative way and open up space for communities to meet and for new artistic approaches to emerge.

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