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The Prague Playhouse is proud to announce the upcoming production of Sam Shepard’s True West. The show opens January 21st at 19:30 and plays 22, 23, 27, 28 and 29 as well as February 3, 4 and 5. Tickets are 220 Kc general and 190 Kc (for students and seniors over 65) and will be available at the Globe Bookstore (Pstrossova 6) as well as online at the beginning of next week.
The director Jeff Beck, the cast (Mark Bowen, R. Scott Williams, Andrea Bulisova and Frank Martinez), and all of the production staff are going all out for this dark comedy about two brothers who must work out who and what they are to themselves and each other. Past Playhouse productions have sold out quickly, so don’t hesitate to buy tickets now!
January 7th, 2010
The Bear Theater will present Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at Reduta Theater (Narodni 20, Prague 1) on December 13 and 14 at 7pm. Tickets are 220Kc (180Kc discounted) and are available at the box office. It is suitable for families (children from the age of 6).
Ebeneezer Scrooge is the meanest old man in London, but one evening four ghosts visit him and teach him the true meaning of Christmas. The Bear Theatre stay close to the essence of Dicken’s original story but still use film, puppets and real mince pies to communicate the spirit of this classic Christmas tale. God bless us, each and every one!
December 2nd, 2009
There are several interesting events coming up in the English-language theater world.
The Prague Fringe is offering two comedy nights this season. Both are likely to sell out quickly, so don’t hesitate to book tickets! November 17th: Stephen Frost Impro All-Stars at Divadlo na Pradle. December 15th, David O’Doherty at Divadlo na Pradle. More info and tickets at: http://www.praguefringe.com/2009/comedynights.php.
AKANDA is showing SEX, DRUGS, ROCK & ROLL at Divadlo Barfly, U Milosrdných 4, Prague 1. November 27, 28 and December 3 and 4 at 19:30. It’s a black comedy by award-winning playwright Eric Bogosian. Biting social commentary guaranteed to make you laugh at the most inappropriate things and question your own mental health. Over-the-top characters become caricatures of people we have all have met in our lives and hope we will never see again.
Students from NYU are performing two short plays by Vaclav Havel at Divadlo na Zabradli, Anenske namesti 5. December 5 and 6 at 2pm. The students are acting, directing and producing the plays, Audience and Unveiling, themselves. It should be well worth a look. Tickets are 120 Kc and available by emailing nyupraguetheatre@gmail.com.
November 12th, 2009
On November 4th, 2009 at the Rudolfinum, Struny Podzimu, one of Prague’s premier music festivals, is hosting Michael York and pianist Libor Nováček as part of their 2009 season. The music will be Enoch Arden, a melodrama for reciter and piano by Richard Strauss and a piano sonata by Leoš Janáček (On an Overgrown Path, Piano Sonata 1.X. 1905 in E flat minor ‘From the Street’).
The charismatic York, famous from award-winning films like Cabaret, The Three Musketeers, and Murder on the Orient Express, has performed roles in more than a hundred other films and theatrical productions, recited in numerous musical projects, and lent his sonorous voice to more than ninety audio books. In 2002 York recorded the melodrama Enoch Arden with pianist John Bell Young, with whom he also performed it successfully in several important festivals in the USA and Europe. His current collaboration with the gifted Czech pianist Libor Nováček, living for many years now in Great Britain, has been arranged specially at the request of the Strings of Autumn Festival. More information on www.strunypodzimu.cz.
Tickets:
Festival Information and Sales Centre (in the National Theatre box office), Ostrovní 1,
Mon.-Thurs. 11 AM – 6 PM
Ticketpro – www.ticketpro.cz
At the concert site an hour before the beginning of the event.
Reservations: www.strunypodzimu.cz,
tel.: 224 901 247 (Mon.-Thurs. 11 AM – 6 PM),
e-mail: vstupenky@strunypodzimu.cz
October 28th, 2009
Nancy Bishop, the casting director for almost all of the English-language projects coming through Prague, has written a book based on her experiences in the casting studio and teaching her on-camera workshops. The book, “Secrets from the Casting Couch”, is now out and Nancy’s hosting a book launch party at the Globe Bookstore on Thursday, September 17 2009 at 19:00.
At the launch, there will be a short panel discussion about casting and actors working in Prague. Nancy will be joined by Czech actor, Pavel Kriz, who has worked on numerous international productions. Screen International journalist Theo Schwinke will moderate a discussion about casting, Prague actors and the Prague film scene. A book signing by the author and illustrator Bonnie Glover will follow.
About the book: Why is it that so many good actors don’t perform well at castings? Secrets from the Casting Couch gives practical advice for actors, written from a casting director’s point of view, teaching the craft of film casting in front of camera. It shows how actors can work with today’s internet technologies to get cast and features advice and actual exercises that achieve results in the casting studio. The author has developed a successful approach through many years experience of working in the casting studio.
About Nancy Bishop: Emmy-award nominated Casting Director, Nancy Bishop, C.S.A, has cast supporting talent on over sixty projects from her home in Prague. Her credits include major studio pictures such as Wanted (Universal), Alien Vs. Predator (Fox), Hellboy (Revolution), and Prince Caspian (Disney), as well as TV series such as The Philanthropist (NBC), Charles II (BBC), and Anne Frank (ABC). She has worked for such major directors as Roman Polanski, and Joel Schumacher, and legendary producers such as George Lucas, and Jackie Chan. The author teaches her proven film acting technique at master classes throughout Europe and the US. She is also the Head of the Acting for Film Department at the Prague film School. www.nancybishopcasting.com
September 11th, 2009
Kino Aero will be presenting a live screening from the National Theater in London of Helen Mirren in Phedra on Thursday, June 25 at 19:30. Tickets are 350 Kc. It promises to be a really good show and sure is cheaper than flying there!
Consumed by an uncontrollable passion for her young stepson and believing Theseus, her absent husband, to be dead, Phèdre confesses her darkest desires and enters the world of nightmare. When Theseus returns alive and well, Phèdre, fearing exposure, accuses her stepson of rape. The result is carnage.
NT Live – is a new initiative to broadcast live performances of National Theatre plays onto cinema screen around the world. The pilot season will launch with Nicholas Hytner´s production of Phédre with Helen Mirren in title role, Margaret Tyzack a Dominic Cooper.
Phédre will be performed in London on Thursday 25 June 2009 and broadcast live in high definition exclusively at the cinema Aero in Prague
June 10th, 2009
Prague Shakespeare Festival is presenting an expanded version of Guy Roberts’ One Man Hamlet May 15 and 18 at Divadlo Na Pradle.
Ten Actors. Eighteen Characters. One Hundred Twenty Minutes. The Prague Shakespeare Festival’s production of HAMLET illuminates the mind of Shakespeare’s greatest and most famous creation, offering new insights into the life of theatre’s most canonical character. Using only Shakespeare’s words, in a conflated text that incorporates the First Folio (with additional aspects from the First and Second Quarto), the audience experiences the world of the play through Hamlet’s eyes – only seeing and hearing the scene and moments that the character Hamlet himself experiences in the play. Taking this singular journey with the Prince of Denmark, audiences will understand the actions, themes and motives of the play’s main character as never before. Whether seen as story of devastating human domestic passions or a suspenseful political mystery of intrigue, revenge and betrayal, the tragedy of Denmark’s “sweet prince” continues to challenge and inspire.
Information about the show can be found at the Prague Shakespeare Festival website. Ticket information can be found after the jump:
DATES:
May 15th & 18th, 2009
CURTAIN TIME:
19:30
LOCATION:
Divadlo Na Pradle
Besední 3
Praha 1 – Malá Strana
TICKETS:
200kc General Admission,
150kc Student/Senior
RESERVATIONS:
pokladna@napradle.cz online
257.320.421 phone
May 11th, 2009
Miloco is continuing with La Machine, which is in rep at Divadlo Komedie. For those of you that haven’t seen it already, I would highly recommend going. It’s non-verbal and a very cool production. Miloco devised the work through a series of improvisations and discussions and it has a post-modern, sci-fi feel to it while at the same time maintaining a core of human interaction and emotion.
May 16 at 19:30 at Divadlo Komedie
Jungmannova 1, Prague 1
Tickets are 150/100 Kc
More details and the Miloco press release are below:
Conceived by Miloco’s international ensemble, La Machine is an original multi-media performance which explores the desperation of lovers living in a dystopic near-future; it is a story of how their fantasies become a substitute for living and perhaps lead to a journey of survival.
Alternating between live performance and video, La Machine tells the story of Hurtus and Lili are desperately trying to keep living in near-impossible circumstances.
Science fiction is a genre largely ignored in the theatre, yet it is a genre that closely addresses anxieties and concerns about our world at present. La Machine is not the science fiction of spaceships and aliens, but rather that which asks questions about our current world, the direction it is taking and how we can remain human and hopeful when so much appears so bleak.
Divadlo Komedie
Jungmannova 1, Prague 1
Admission: 150kc | Students / Seniors: 100kc
Divadlo Komedie is located just off of Vodickova at the Lazarska tram stop. There will be drinks and music in the Komedie Cafe following each performance.
Online reservations: www.prakomdiv.cz
Telephone reservations: 224.222.734
May 8th, 2009
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S 445TH BIRTHDAY
PSF SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY PARTY – APRIL 23RD, 2009
The Prague Shakespeare Festival, Prague’s only English-language based classical theatre company, is pleased to present an evening of music, food, drink and purple passages in honor of William Shakespeare’s 445th birthday. Open to everyone who loves theatre, Shakespeare, and birthdays, the PSF Shakespeare Birthday Party will be held at Prague’s The Globe Bookstore and Café at Pštrossova 6 on Thursday April 23rd, 2009 beginning at 19:30.
Join PSF Artistic Director Guy Roberts and the PSF Artistic Company, as well as local favorites Gerry Turner, Adam Stewart, Lenka Novakova, Trevor Marshall and Steffen Silvis as they share, in English and Czech, some of Shakespeare’s most beloved passages. Original Shakespearean songs and musical entertainment is provided by Musical Director and Composer Ed Kliman (coming from the US just for this event) and features a special performance by Biljana Pelić.
The Globe is offering a unique Shakespeare inspired birthday dinner menu including spiced beef on cornbread and ginger bread with icing as well as a choice of mead or sack. Malmsey also available at the bar.
Dinner and Admission available for the all-inclusive price of 450Kč per person. General Admission (ticket only) price is 150Kč per person. Seating is limited and the event is sure to sell out so be sure to book in advance. Tickets may be purchased in person at the Globe Bookstore or at the PSF website: www.pragueshakespeare.cz
PSF SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY PARTY
DATES & TIME: April 23rd, 2009 @ 19:30 (7:30pm)
LOCATION: The Globe Bookstore and Café
Pštrossova 6
110 00, Prague 1
TICKETS: 450Kč All Inclusive (Admission & Dinner)
150Kč General Admission (Admission only)
RESERVATIONS: www.pragueshakespeare.cz – online
The Globe Bookstore and Café – in person
608 408 676 – phone
April 22nd, 2009
Gail let us know about her show “The Human Jukebox” which is returning to Divadlo na Zabradli on March 22 at 19:00. Tickets are only 200 Kc! This is a really good way to spend the evening! She says about the show:
If you’re not familiar with the show it’s like this: I know a lot of songs. A lot. So I made a book of about 1,000 of them in many genres – rock, rap, opera, gospel, musicals, TV commercials, etc.
During this interactive show the audience members get to holler at me whichever song they’d like me to perform and I will do it unaccompanied and from memory.
See what SPIN magazine had to say about the show:
http://cz.youtube.com/watch?v=9-H2iEFyIlc
Or read the history of the show along with what was performed at the latest ones:
http://gail-humanjukebox.blogspot.com/
Want even more info or want to see the song list? Go to www.The-Human-Jukebox.com or www.LidskyJukebox.cz If you want something that’s not on the list then send Gail a request and I’ll try to learn it. Or scream it out anyway – you never know.
So again, that’s:
Sunday, March 22 at 19:00
The fun will take place at:
Divadlo Na Zabradli
Anenske 5
Tickets are 200kc at the box office. Space is limited so it’s recommended to make a reservation by emailing: pokladna@nazabradli.cz
The bar opens one hour before perf so come and get…relaxed. There will also be ample opportunity to become even more…relaxed…during intermission and even moreso after the show.
March 14th, 2009
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