Prague Playhouse

Bear Theatre: The Bear and The Rocking Horse Winner

April 3rd, 2008 at 09:36am brian

NOTE: These performances have been canceled due to an illness!

The Bear Theatre presents

THE ROCKING HORSE WINNER by D.H. Lawrence and
THE BEAR by A.P.Chekhov

Reduta Theatre, Narodní Trida 20, April 14th and 15th at 7.00 p.m.

Tickets 180Kc (230Kc on the door). Reductions 150Kc - available from the venue.

Two classic short plays in one evening, one from England one from Russia.

The Bear by Anton Chekhov - This one-act play is the story of a fight between a young widow and a rough gentleman farmer, who is owed some money by her dead husband. Unlike Chekhov’s famous long plays, this is a fairly straight broad comedy with a surprise ending. However, it doesn’t lack any of the humanity and feeling for character that makes Chekhov one of the world’s leading playwrights.

The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence is adapted from the famous short story. A young boy discovers that he has a gift for predicting the winners of horse races. He secretly uses this gift to support the debts of his overspending aristocratic parents, but ends by paying a great price. As with The Bear, although the story is set a hundred years ago, the reality of the characters and the eternal theme of money and debt and the pressures they bring make the story resound strongly with a modern audience.

The Bear Theatre is the Czech Republic’s full-time professional English Langauge Theatre. The theatre plays mostly for school audiences in Central Europe and France, but the evening shows for adults are no less well-received. ‘The Bear’ is the flagship production of the theatre (which gave rise to the name) and ‘The Rocking Horse Winner’ has also been in the Theatre’s repertoire for over eight years, so a great evening is guaranteed.

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