About the ensemble
The Drak Theatre is a local theatre in Hradec Králové, whose work has been based from the beginning not only on the tradition of (East) Czech puppetry, but also on the principle of original authorial creation for children and adults based on imagination and novel inventiveness. Throughout its history, it has often pioneered new methods and creative approaches and has won numerous awards in this country and abroad. A proud heir to the legacy of the travelling puppeteers, during its sixty years of existence, the productions of The Dragon have been seen by audiences in more than 650 towns and cities in 38 different countries on five continents (Europe, Asia, Australia, North and South America). These countries have a combined population of 1 571 275 000, representing about 21 % of the world's population, and speak 34 different official languages. They have a total area of approximately 59 425 774 km, about 12% of the Earth's surface, or about 40% of the Earth's land mass. The total sum of the distances of their main cities from Hradec Králové is 119 155 km, i.e. roughly three times the length of the equator or 200 000 times more than the distance between the Drak Theatre and the theatre hostel in Tomkova Street or the Na Hradě restaurant.
Web: draktheatre.cz/
About the show
A fairy tale about a meeting, a meeting over a fairy tale
Tale of a meeting, a meeting over a tale
Premiere 26 June 2022 in the open air in front of the Drak Theatre
Once upon a time there was a little girl who wore a red bonnet on her head, and that's why no one called her anything but Little Red Riding Hood. One day at home, she packed everything she could fit into a big basket. Clothes, something to eat, a few things to remember her by and her own story. Then she set off on a long journey into a strange forest.
A Czech-Ukrainian production of a classic fairy tale that is well known to children and adults in both countries. It is performed by two actors. Marina lives in Kiev, Petr in Divets. Now they have met in Hradec (which is not halfway) to tell the same story together. But Marina speaks Ukrainian and Petr speaks Czech. And each of them knows the story a little differently. It seems that in order to reach a happy ending, they have no choice but to make some kind of agreement.
The cast: Marina Byt and Petr Vrběcký
Screenplay: Tomáš Jarkovský, Barbora Pokorná et al.
Scene design: Tereza Vašíčková
Directorial supervision: Jakub Vašíček
Dramaturgy: Tomáš Jarkovský, Barbora Pokorná
Production: Barbora Kalinová
Executive Production: Oleksandra Titarova
Produced by the Drak Theatre workshops: Tereza Vašíčková, Radek Beran, Michaela Kudelková, Hana Kopová, Štěpán Uherka
It is performed in Czech and Ukrainian.
