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Čtyři dny | Four days

2006

… defect, remedy, alteration, problem, diagnosis, research, laboratory: slogan A World without Fault? Visual artists, architects, dancers, lighting designers, musicians and other artists who met inside the house transformed their world around themselves. What is graceful about the house on Jungmannová Street is that people who never knew the festival even existed often met each other here. And so the 11th annual Four Days once again achieved its goal: to revitalize a public space through artistic activity and in a place where the citizens of Prague least expected it.

Veronika Bednářová, Reflex 

 

The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote: “If you watch Thaddeus Phillips on stage, you’ll have the same feeling as though you were on drugs”. I suppose that particular characteristic will apply not only to this performance, but to all productions that are part of the festival. Lately I think that that is one of the best recommendations.

Vladimír Hulec, cultural programme of the Reflex magazine

 

What caught your attention in your own field?

In the past few weeks, definitely the 4+4+4 Days in motion Festival. A gigantic connection of theatre and visual arts – an exceptional atmosphere.

Jiří Ptáček, Editor in Chief of Umělec magazine responds to a survey of the Reflex magazine 

 

Like in previous years, the organizers plan to introduce to the general public and primarily to the Prague citizens a unique theatre project created for a particular space, pairing it with the entire locale in a variety of contexts, drawing from the location and its genia loci…

Listy Prahy 1

 

When it began not quite ten years ago in December 1996, it really lasted four days and – like today – it concentrated on contemporary performing arts… The Festival situates itself in some theatre of an undiscovered locality, or in an abandoned building or one designed for another purpose, and there, performers and other artists settle with their spectators – like a group of holy squatters.

Právo