The Lešany Crib / Lešanské Jesličky / Lenka Vagnerová & Company (CZ)
The Lešany Crib is based on a story of the famous Czech author František Hrubín. It deals with hope and fatality in our lives through a parallel with the biblical theme of Joseph, Mary and their child chased by a Herod's soldier.
The Lešany Crib is based on a story of the famous Czech author František Hrubín. It deals with hope and fatality in our lives through a parallel with the biblical theme of Joseph, Mary and their child chased by a Herod's soldier. The story is full of bizarre situations, love, humor, hope and belief. Five characters will meet in a pub in the middle of nowhere during a snow blizzard.
The moving story with its beautiful language and the poetry full of images may work as a cure against the world obsessed with production and serve as a reminder of the human dimension in each one of us. The Lešany Crib impresses by the power of simplicity and humanity emerging from the poetry of Hrubín. Text full of emotions with its rich and intense ancient story, text relating to the pre-Christian and Christian roots of the European culture at the moment of their retrieval and need for their remembering.
"Josef Padevět and his wife Marie have been walking. Marie does not want to surrender the bundle made of a quilt and covered with a coat that she has been holding in her arms. In it, blood is running through the darkness of the little body that, with every beat of its heart, has been approaching the moment when it realizes itself and becomes enchanted by the immense and amazing life with the horrors of wars, dreams and love, …"
František Hrubín, The Lešany Crib
CREDITS:
Concept, choreography, direction: Lenka Vagnerová
Concept, dramaturgy: Vladimír Javorský
Music: Ivan Acher
Performing: Monika Částková / Andrea Opavská, Fanny Bašista / Matilde Giacomelli, Adam Sojka, Leonard Vo Tan, Lukáš Záhorák
(Branislav Bašista, Ivo Sedláček, Michal Heriban)
Scenography: Anna Vránová, Lenka Vagnerová, Vladimír Javorský
Costumes: Michal Heriban, Andrea Vagnerová
Music performed by: Jana Vébrová: accordion, helicon, vocals, Lenka Dusilová: vocals, Karolína Baranová: voice, Vladan Maliniak: violin, viola, Ivan Acher: vocals, helicon, sampler, preparpiano, harmonium, Vladimír Javorský: vioce
Light design: Michal Kříž
Sound design: Eva Hamouzová
Producer: Lenka Vagnerová & Company
Premiered at: Theatre La Fabrika Theatre (Prague)
Rehearsed in: STUDIO ALTA
With a subsidy from: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Capital City of Prague
The copyright Lešany Crib Františka Hrubína has been represented by DILIA, divadelní, literární, audiovizuální agentura, z.s., Krátkého 1, Prague.