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Svandovo Theatre is introducing..
The first drama theatre with English subtitles in Prague !!!
Svandovo Theatre is introducing a pioneering innovation to enable English-speaking theatregoers to visit its performances being played in Czech. This innovation is the projecting of simultaneous subtitles. In Prague subtitles are used in other theatres, but only for opera performances. The subtitles are projected onto a special screen that is hung under the stage portal to avoid disturbing the theatre stage itself. This means of presenting translation is used in theatres all around the world.
Svandovo Theatre has chosen to subtitle five plays from its repertoire: The Tempest by Shakespeare, Martin McDonagh’s Lieutenant of Inishmore, Tartuffe by Molière, The Marriage by Gogol and Killer Joe by Tracy Letts.
Lieutenant of Inishmore is a work by one of the most successful young English authors of the present, Martin McDonagh. It is a wicked grotesque, something like a black cat crossing your path in the dead of night. The story takes place on the Irish island of Inishmore. Apart from simple country people seeking “the peaceful life away from it all”, this play’s heroes include a teenage female anarchist and a young terrorist, who, in the end, find their love for fluffy, innocent, four-legged friends stronger than their affection for the terrorist organization that employs them. The performance is directed by Daniel Hrbek, the director of Svandovo Theatre.
The Tempest is the most magical, most fantastic of Shakespeare’s comedies. It is one of his greatest and, at the same time, one of his final plays. It is a story of a terrible storm and a strange shipwreck, from out of which arrive traitors, clowns, drunks and innocent souls. It is a story that ends with a wedding, a loving reconciliation, rejuvenation, in short a happy ending for everyone involved.
Tartuffe is a pure comedy, full of brilliant dialogues, situations, lively characters and at the same time full of contradictions. It moves masterfully, dances between the full-blooded, exuberant comedy dell’arte and the ice-cold passion of the rococo Valmont.
The fourth performance with subtitles in Svandovo theatre, Killer Joe is a brutal love story, a tale on the border between a comic book and a social horror, the first of the so-called coolness dramas to arrive here. This thrilling performance has been played for eight years with great success.
The last of our subtitled plays is a classic comedy by the genius Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. The Wedding is directed by guest director Janusz Klimsza. Getting the government councillor, Ivan Podkolatov, to wed is an almost inhuman task luckily undertaken by Podkolatov’s best friend Ilya Kochkarev, who will see to it that the right speed needed for the wooing is set.
We hope that these plays will be attractive to an English-speaking audience. Lieutenant of Inishmore has been a real hit all around the world. The same can be said about the play Killer Joe, which started so-called coolness drama in the Czech Republic. Our presentation of contemporary titles is completed by classical world drama that is enduringly attractive. That is why we chose Molière, Gogol and Shakespeare.
From this November, English-speaking people can visit Svandovo Theatre in Smichov and enjoy all these plays.
If our idea catches on, we are planning to subtitle more plays in the coming seasons.
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