collective devising theatre. About the liminal situation. About the moment it is worth living for. How to reconsider pre-prepared ideas, generally shared views or values in confrontation with living reality and your own desire for… happiness? We try to understand mainly ourselves in the situation of the crisis, which was brought by the collision of a man with the environment, a man with another person, with HER.
original text. The production Get Away from India is based on the novel Love in the Time of Global Climate Change by Josef Pánek – a partially autobiographical story of a straightforward, sincere and quite informal narrator. The story is further shaped by our personal experience, including the experiences of the protagonist Filip Janouch, who has been three times in India.
director and dramaturgy.
Kamila Konývková Kostřicová and the group
dramaturgy assistant.
Veronika Koloušková
casts.
girl, receptionist, she ... Anna Stenzlová
Tomáš ... Filip Janouch
lights and music.
Jonáš Konývka
if you find yourself in Bangalore, India. You get frightened by the noise, dirt, car horns, by the stench that is quite hard to distinguish, by the overpopulation, and the total feeling of uprooting. You are standing in the most shabby and inhospitable place on Earth... And then – perhaps because of her prosaically blue jeans – you take your first photo in your life.
josef pánek. Current Czech writer and scientist in the field of computational molecular genetics at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. He lived in Norway and Australia, traveled because of science around the world. He published a collection of short stories Kopáč opálů (2013) and the novel Love in the Time of Global Climate Change (2017), for which he received the most important Czech Literary Prize of Magnesia Litera.