drifting theatre show
Jan Beneš, Vojta Švejda
Reality versus imagination.
Unendurable conditions versus existence.
Warmth of memories and the fucking cold.
No language barrier
Idea: Vojta Švejda, Jan Beneš.
Play: Vojta Švejda, Jan Beneš.
Light design: Tereza Benešová.
Hudba: Jan Kalivoda.
Persformance about loneliness, friendschip,waiting for help that doesen´t come, about fidelity and hope. A performance about losing things, consciouness, values and the close ones. About longing for getting lost, being lost and being missed. A performance swelling with manly romance that is so hard to find in todayś world.
„What misery, what horror, to image this solitary man sitting on the terible, icy wastes! The skies are blue, seemingly eminently close, so that a man could jump up and touch them, the world appears like a babyś cradle, since the skyline seems higher than the place where a man stands, and the sun always soars throught the sky, only hidden here and there by a light haze."-polar travel writer Jan Welzl
„Our performance style is based on subtle, precise expression wich is born out of motionlessness and the act of waiting. We deal with confrontations between the inner movement of thought and the motionless body in surrounding wich never cease to move. Both characters thus embody their surrealist imaginings, which are brought forth in their frozen starving condition from their troubled heads."
The performance was nominated for „ Total Theatre Award" Fringe Festival Edinburg 2008
The performance was played in Czech and these countries - Poland, Hungaria, Scotland, England, Finland, France, U.S.A, Italy...
This project has been supported by - City of Prague, Motus C.A., Alfred ve Dvoře Theater Production and the Duncan Centre.
The performance is a part of the New Web project (2006).