About the ensemble

We are a creative team Zuzana Smolová (CZ) and Peter
Gaffney (USA) based in South Bohemia. We are interested in
diverse theatrical techniques, experimenting with
genres, creating theatre that contains intense,
unnamable, irrational elements that
that influence and shape contemporary human experience.
Our work is based on the author's creative process,
that works with the techniques of movement theatre,
puppets, masks, music, text and
experimentation with basic materials such as
clay, sand, water, paper, glass, steel or wood in order to
enriching the movement vocabulary, characters and manner
narrative.
Our performances reflect intense moments of
of capture and escape in an ever-expanding world,
moments that reach beyond the psychological boundaries of meaning.
and intention, moments of transformation from the human to the inhuman,
the analogue to the digital, the living to the inanimate, the self to the
others. Our stories often relate to a person who
undergoing a moral or other crisis, a person transformed
by a general disintegration of the common sense, even
the disintegration of the physical limits that confine our bodies
and the mundane environment.

About the show

Come play with light and shadow! The Shadow Games interactive installation hides various games based on experimenting and interacting with light and shadow, puppets and objects in several mini chapiters.

Concept: Zuzana Smolová and Peter Gaffney / Puppets: Peter Gaffney / For all ages, 0-99 years