Three premieres in the first week of March
Three premieres at the beginning of March! HaDivadlo is preparing The Axe, Terén will present a performance FUGK and Husa na provázku Theatre will introduce Ordinary Detective Comedy (About Who Broke Up the Family).
At the beginning of March, the audience will have the opportunity to experience the premiere in each of the three theatres of the Centre for Experimental Theatre (CED) in Brno in the span of one week. On 1 March 2025, HaDivadlo will open its production of The Axe, directed by Břetislav Rychlík. On 6 March 2025 Terén will present for the first time Pasi Mäkelä's solo performance FUGK. And on 7 March 2025 Husa na provázku Theatre will open a new production – Ordinary Detective Comedy (About Who Broke Up the Family), directed by Tereza Volánková.
On Saturday, March 1, 2025, at 7:30 p.m., the premiere of The Axe will take place at HaDivadlo. The dramatization of the novel by the renowned Czech writer and publicist Ludvík Vaculík was directed by Břetislav Rychlík and dramaturg Anna Prstková. Cyril Drozda, a member of the ensemble, and dramaturg Milo Juráni also collaborate on the dramaturgy of the production. "The Axe is a dense and precise observation of the mind, a journey through time, the Wallachian landscape and the bureaucracy of the 1950s. In adapting Ludvík's journey to find his brother, we sought to capture the characteristic meandering of Vaculík's narrative flow. We are not only travelling forward, but in all directions at the same time," says dramaturg Anna Prstková. The Axe will be staged as a reminder and reflection of the theatre's dissident roots and will be the second premiere of HaDivadlo's 50th anniversary Season 50: Horizons.
Read-through of The Axe, HaDivadlo
Photo: Terezie Fojtová
Just a few days later, on Thursday, 6 March 2025, the solo performance FUGK by Finnish performance artist, director, choreographer, musician and conceptual artist Pasi Mäkela will be performed for the first time at the CED Cellar Stage under baton of Terén from 19:30. "We have already completed a number of projects with Pasi in Terrain (Black Piece, Rickey Mouse Fun House or Headbanger), which have resulted in the preparation of a new performance called FUGK (Finno-Ugric Garage Kabuki). In this work, Mäkelä reworks the Finnish folk ritual of hunting the bear Karhun Peijaiset through the means of traditional Japanese kabuki theatre. There will be no shortage of absurd humour and obscure gags," says Matyáš Dlab, Terén's artistic director, about the collaboration. The performance will uniquely combine butoh dance, experimental concert, noise, free improvisation, Finnish humppa music style and sound and object installation.
Rehearsal FUGK, Pasi Mäkelä, Terén
Photo: Barbora Doležalová
Finally, Friday 7 March 2025 at the Husa na provázku Theatre from 19:00 will be the premiere of Tereza Volánková's production Ordinary Detective Comedy (About Who Broke Up the Family). Tereza Volánková, who is also directing the production, says: „Ordinary Detective Comedy is both normal and not normal in its essence. Formally, it returns dialogue, even unity of time, place and plot to Provázek, but at the same time it opens up a topic that is absolutely contemporary (and I don't mean timeless). Namely, the crisis of traditional marriage through the lens of approving marriage for all couples." The production is tailor-made for the theatre's ensemble, led by Jan Kolařík, with supervision by dramaturg Veronika Onheiserová and dramaturgical collaboration by Marie Klemensová. "Although it is not really a true detective genre, more than enough mysteries will be revealed in the end," adds Volánková. This is the third production of the Husa na provázku Theatre's season of They!, which "above all calls for a great and honest revision of each of our We."
Creative team of Ordinary Detective Comedy (About Who Broke Up the Family), Husa na Provázku Theatre
Photo: Jakub Šnajdr
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