HoME / Howard Lotker

"Little Man"

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Little Man – brilliance, madness, love, memories and fatherhood of Wilhelm Reich. The project is inspired by the character of Freud’s talented student – psychiatrist, scientist and writer Wilhelm Reich. The name of the performance Little Man is borrowed from a book Listen, Little Man that Reich wrote in the prison. The second source is a poetic autobiography of Reich’s son Peter called A Book of Dreams. The projects examines limits of Reich’s undisputable brilliance and his probable madness. A playful interactive style of HoMe theater transforms viewers into listeners of Reich’s early lectures about sex, they become a group of colleagues who expel Reich from Wien Psychiatric Association, patients who use his Orgon machine and hope they will cure their cancer or change weather, jury that sentences Reich to prison and eventually his imaginary children.

HoME is a group of artists that examines everyday living space of people using the means of theater, performance, used art and movement and it emphasizes a play and audience involvement in the process of production. The authors received a “Project of the Year” award at the Next Wave festival in 2006.

Howard Lotker (USA/CZ) is a graduate and today also a teacher of the Department of authorship and performance at Theatre Accademy.

Within the project KORZARt.

Co-production: Four Days and Motus