The Tragedy of Liblice
Vosto5 (Czech Republic)
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An amplified mystery-crime that combines the traditional poetics of Vosto5 with a Costa-Gavras-esque spy thriller and a subdued TV crime drama.
After the end of nationwide medium-wave radio broadcasting, radio technicians set off for the small village of Liblice, home of the largest terrestrial transmitter in Central Europe. It should be dormant by now, but all remote measurements show it’s still transmitting and receiving! What, to whom, and why? An experienced team of radio enthusiasts must venture into the field and unravel the biggest mystery of our airwaves, the connection between space-time and energy flow. In doing so, they stumble upon a fascinating discovery by pure chance.
Since its inception, Vosto5 has made no secret of its fondness for everything related to radio broadcasting – partly due to a certain kind of nostalgia bordering on fetishism, partly due to the demands that the medium of radio makes on the imagination. Therefore, many of its plays have utilized, transformed, and explored radio as a communicative artistic medium for theatrical language (Kupé v lese, Proton, etc.).
The Vosto5 Theatre was founded in Prague in 1996. It is an independent, generational troupe that creates original productions combining original writing and fresh humor, which is both edgy and ironic. The work of the Vosto5 Theatre combines references to modern cabaret and allusions to humorous texts, which, together with natural improvisation, are at the heart of all the group’s performances. The core of the theatre is made up of five artists and actors – Petr Prokop, Ondřej Cihlář, Jiří Havelka, Tomáš Jeřábek and Ondřej Bauer – who, in addition to their activities in Vosto5 have also enjoyed success in their own work and other activities outside of the group.
Vosto5 is a live creative organism with an unusually wide range of sizes and types of productions: from operating the “Stand’art” Theatre – a theatre, café and dance hall in an old military tent (2003 – 2009), to creating an entirely improvised Stand’art cabaret with a variable cast of two to five actors and chamber puppet performances (Hrusice 1907, Vajce), to firmly fixed and technically complicated stage works, such as the action historical fiction Pérák – What’s in a name? It’s actions that count! at the Archa Theatre or the moving pub site-specific Brass Band featuring almost 30 performers of all generations played among the tables of the Baráčnická rychta dance hall in Prague’s Lesser Quarter, the Domovina venue in Holešovice, the Sokolovna in Řepy, or newly at Vzlet in Vršovice.
Performance duration: 80 min.
Only in Czech
Directed by Jiří Havelka and Vosto5
Theme and screenplay: Jiří Havelka
Music and sound design: Martin Hůla
Scenography: Mikoláš Zika and Jan Brejcha
Production: Denisa Sedláčková
Starring: Ondřej Bauer, Ondřej Cihlář, Jiří Havelka, Tomina Jeřábek, Petr Prokop
With the support of: the Capital City of Prague, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the State Cultural Fund of the Czech Republic
Co-production: VOSTO5, 4 + 4 Days in Motion and Vzlet
