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All the Beauty in the World

Jaroslav Seifert

The third event in the ‘Harmony’ series is dedicated to Jaroslav Seifert and (not only) his memoir *All the Beauty of the World*. Mácha seeks answers in tragic conflict and Hora in quiet meditation, whilst Seifert finds poetry in a careful observation of the world around him. more

Crutches and knives

Anita Augustin

Psychedelic road story of forever young old ladies. This dynamic grotesque, which has been dramatised by the author of the novel, presents four charming elderly ladies who are facing jail. more

Dogville

Lars von Trier

“By daylight the essential things remain hidden.” more

Heda

Henrik Ibsen / Dana Hlaváčová

When helplessness is more terrifying than death, love turns to hate and fragility to insensitive coldness. This Heda Is Not Dead and she won't give in to anyone or anything. A new adaptation based on Henrik Ibsen's play Heda Gabler about people who, in their desire for freedom, drive themselves into traps. more

I have an injured finger and the letters hurt me

Jan Skácel

The fourth and final event in the ‘Harmony’ series is dedicated to the poetry of Jan Skácel – a poet of silence and contemplation, but also the author of an outstanding adaptation of Sophocles’ *Oedipus*. more

Jacques and His Master

Milan Kundera

“Where did we come from? And where are we going? Do you even know where you’re headed?” Skeptical comedy. more

Like raindrops we scattered across this wide, wide world

Josef Hora

In the second poetic gathering of the ‘Harmony’ series, the drama company will present the balladic poem *Jan the Fiddler*. In a meditation that is both contemplative and passionate, we return to the places that Jan called home. Now, however, he no longer recognises his own country. more

Long is my journey… Futile cry…

Karel Hynek Mácha

We open the “Harmony” series with the complex figure of Karel Hynek Mácha and his existential poem *Máj*. It is a poem about the tragic beauty of human existence—about the longing for love and freedom in a world that offers no definitive answers. more

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

After many years, Shakespeare’s most famous play returns to the drama repertoire in a new production. It is a story of a love so great, so naive and yet so bold, that a world hardened by hatred can scarcely find a way to understand it. more

S.K.U.P.A.

Milan Šotek

We continue our dramaturgical line devoted to Plzeň’s cultural heritage and its important personalities. more

Stories About a Dog and a Cat

Josef Čapek

Beloved tales of Dog and Cat in a playful stage adaptation more

THE CLOSET

Francis Veber

A modern social satire about how an invisible person can suddenly become a social star more

The Immortal Lovers of Verona

Monika Švábová and Pavel Pavlovský once again as the ‘Immortal Lovers of Verona’, based on Miroslav Horníček’s work. more

THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, OR A CRAZY DAY

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

“Those at the top are taking too many liberties.” more

The Memorandum

Václav Havel

An evening of staged readings from Václav Havel’s play *The Memorandum*, to mark what would have been his 90th birthday, is being held in collaboration with the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Plzeň. more

The Playboy of the Western World

John Millington Synge

How to become a hero quickly and easily… even if it means getting into serious trouble? In a remote pub in the Irish countryside, a frightened young man named Christy Mahon suddenly shows up with a story about how he killed his father with a rake. more

The Strakonice Bagpiper

Josef Kajetán Tyl

One of Tyl’s most charming and enchanting plays, about the wildness of youth and the power of love. About stubbornness and selfishness, which can blind not only the eyes but also the heart. About how no one is a prophet in their own land, and how you recognise a friend in times of need – you just mustn’t overlook them! more

The Truth

Florian Zeller

A comedy about infidelity in which one lie follows another more

To Have and to Hold

Richard Bean

You’re in your nineties, you’ve been married for more than sixty years, you know each other inside and out, you’ve perfected your bickering over the years, some health issues make it difficult for you to go about your daily lives, and you want only one thing from life: to live out your days contentedly and in relative peace. more

Whom My Soul Loves

Itai Segal

Seventeen-year-old Yehonatan is growing up in an Orthodox family near Tel Aviv. He tries to lead a ‘normal’ life and hides his true sexual orientation. A shooting at a bar in Tel Aviv, where he finds himself with his boyfriend Adam, begins to reveal Yehonatan’s secret. more

Wit

Margaret Edson

“Life, death… It’s a metaphysical conceit.” more

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Emily Brontëová

Hate is unfair. Love is even more so. The author died shortly after the publication of her only novel, which she signed with a male pseudonym in 1847. more

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