Prague Playhouse

Laska is Love, Love je Laska

March 21st, 2008 at 02:20pm brian

Update: New performances added: April 8 and 15th at 19:00!

Did you enjoy the film Once? Do you know a multicultural couple or are you part of one yourself? If you are interested in “everyday” relationships between people who, despite cultural and linguistic gulfs, find a way to understand each other and make it work, then do not miss Láska Is Love, Love je Láska by Alexander Komlosi and Eva Čechová. The next performance will be in Divadlo Na Zábradlí (Theatre on the Balustrade) on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 at 7PM. The performance will be in Czech and English.

Láska Is Love, Love je Láska, directed by Komlosi and featuring both authors, tells the story of a young American man and a young Czech lass who meet and sparks fly.

This performance develops off last year’s successful production of “Sure Thing” at the Theatre on the Balustrade in Prague.

Eliadova knihovna
Divadla Na Zábradlí
(Theatre on the Balustrade)
Annenské náměstí 12, Praha 1

Tickets in the theatre box office
tel. 222 868 868
email: pokladna@nazabradli.cz
skype: divadlonazabradli

For more information please contact:
Alexander Komlosi
776 072 092
info@professionalhumanbeing.net

The new performance is inspired by “Sure Thing,” by American playwright David Ives, and is based on two original texts – “Lunch with Van Gogh” by Komlosi and “Oliver” by Čechová - developed at Professor Ivan Vyskočil’s Authors Reading seminar at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU).

Komlosi, a Czech-American who has been living in Prague for nearly ten years, has already performed versions of his text at various venues in Prague and at the One Man Show Festival in Cheb (2007). He has been invited to perform “Van Gogh” at the One Man Show Festival next year in Warsaw. Čechová, known for her authorial performance work such as Boršč, is no stranger to multicultural performance either, having worked with foreign companies like Théatre de l’Utopie.

Láska Is Love, Love je Láska is a performance bringing together various cultures and languages in an encounter which aims to foster understanding and remain understandable: “Even people who aren’t fluent in both languages can still follow the story because of the constant alternation of Czech and English. What’s more, the stories continually mesh, meld and switch, creating a linguistic and narrative verve that keeps audience members engaged,” says Komlosi, who has a long-standing experience with multicultural and polyglot performance with companies like Divadlo na voru and Doma/AtHome in addition to his own solo performance work.

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