THU10 May
Debris Company – Anna Steller – VerTeDance
A premiere of a production specially created by dancers from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia for the 16th Flora Theatre festival! An international project inspired by the question of safety and current use of energy. A team of experienced performers under the direction of Jozef Vlk.
A premiere of the “Power of the Visegrad Dance” project
FRI11 May
2.30 pmKonvikt / circus tent / free entry
A debate with the creative team of the production Power Power Dance.
Debris Company – Anna Steller – VerTeDance
A new production specially created by dancers from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia for the festival. An international project inspired by the question of safety and current use of energy. A team of experienced performers under the direction of Jozef Vlk.
A rerun of the production of “Power of the Visegrad Dance” project
SAT12 May
10.00 amKonvikt / bailey
The special Flora festival edition of the Vintage.Market.Olomouc offers you to sell or buy any retro goods and bring them back to life. Sell, buy, swap and enjoy the unique atmosphere of the open air market!
11.00 amKonvikt / bailey / free entry
An audio reproduction co-produced with the Czech Radio Olomouc.
2.30 pmKonvikt / bailey / free entry
D. Drábek: BALL / 2010, dir. A. Vrzák
An audio reproduction co-produced with the Czech Radio Olomouc.
Good Girl Killer & Patrycja Orzechowska
A dance duet about fear and worries connected with terrorism or radioactivity... Working with motifs of absurdity, the performance balances on the border of theatre production and original art installation.
2nd production of the “Power of the Visegrad Dance” project
Divadlo Vosto5
Traditional guests of the festival in a playful prologue to the 16th Flora Theatre Festival.
10.00 pmKonvikt / circus tent / free entry
SUN13 May
Emily Brontë
Divadlo Petra Bezruče Ostrava
Love harsher than the Yorkshire moors, the inevitable revenge for past wrongs, mysteries and ghosts forever drowned in the marshes – in a rough and forceful adaptation of the classic novel.
1st production of the “Directed by Jan Mikulášek” section
3.00 pmKonvikt / circus tent / fairy tale / free entry
Johana Vaňousová & Tomsa Legierski
Will the young detective untangle the mystery and win the heart of the beautiful Emilie? A puppet show for fearless children!
4.00 pmKonvikt / bailey / free entry
V. Fekar: SISTER / 2008, dir. J. Mikulášek
An audio reproduction co-produced with the Czech Radio Olomouc.
5.30 pmKonvikt / bailey / free entry
J. Procházka – L. Procházková: THE EAR / 2011, dir. M. Bureš
An audio reproduction co-produced with the Czech Radio Olomouc.
Dennis Kelly
Divadlo v Dlouhé Prague
A cruel comedy by a contemporary British writer analysing the most unconventional interpersonal relationships and mercilessly unmasking their depersonalization. I shop, therefore I am!
2nd production of the “Directed by Jan Mikulášek” section
9.00 pmKonvikt / circus tent / concert / free entry
A solo performance of Jan Plíhal, a multi-instrumentalist, inventive musician and composer of incidental music.
10.00 pmKonvikt / circus tent / free entry
MON14 May
Anna Réti
An excellent dancer and choreographer from Hungary explores various forms and manifestations of present time in her intimate personal project.
3rd production of the “Power of the Visegrad Dance” project
Mariusz Szczygieł
Národní divadlo moravskoslezské Ostrava
Baarová, Baťa, Goebbels, Gott, Jakeš, Kubišová, Mandlová, Procházka or Vondráčková in an original pastiche of outstanding reportages dealing with the gloomy affairs of our nation’s past and present times.
3rd production of the “Directed by Jan Mikulášek” section
Catchy tunes, taste of remote places and slightly bitter melancholy in songs of a New York-based band working with musicians from the world-famous Swans or Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
Derorzovo Lútkové Divadlo – Puppet Theatre
An adventurer and ladies’ man famous for his inappropriate humour and sexist satire presents himself in his genuine uncouth shape… Restricted to audiences of 18 years or over!
TUE15 May
3.00 pmKonvikt / circus tent / free entry
SPOLU Olomouc
A comeback of an original local ensemble to the festival stage. A movement, a sound, a gesture, and an emotion directed by Darina Deáková.
5.00 pmKonvikt / film hall / free entry
A projection of the Czech audiovisual works focusing on the relationship between video and performance after 2000. Curator: Alexandr Jančík
Patrik Ouředník
Divadlo Reduta / Národní divadlo Brno
20th century European history from an unbiased point of view full of humour and scorching irony – produced by the creative team and the theatre that introduced an outstanding production Correspondence V+W at the festival last year. The production was nominated for the prestigious Alfréd Radok Award for “Production of the Year 2011”.
4th production of the “Directed by Jan Mikulášek” section
Divadlo Vosto5
A theatre and music evening show of the classics of improvisation – Ondar, Petar, Tomina, Jura, and Kurt.
11.00 pmKonvikt / circus tent / free entry
DJ Provarené
WED16 May
4.00 pmKonvikt / film hall / free entry
A collection of short films by FAMU students.
VerTeDance
Beauty, pretence, fulfilment and mainly desire performed by a well-balanced group of 4 dancers accompanied by live music of the band Zrní.
4th production of the “Power of the Visegrad Dance” project
Thomas Mann – J. Mikulášek, B. Gregorová
Divadlo Husa na provázku Brno
An adaptation of a novel about life and death of composer Adrian Leverkühn with the horrible events of the past century in the background. A report on the world on the brink of apocalypse. Oratorio of our times.
5th production of the “Directed by Jan Mikulášek” section
Divadlo DNO
A mystery play about toothbrushing. A show for three lunatics and imaginative audience. Adventurous travels of the mythical samurai – Kniha, Dalecký and Jelínek – in an extraordinary festival premiere.
A concert of a Czech band that “wears listeners’ hearts on their sleeves.”
THU17 May
5.00 pmKonvikt / film hall / free entry
A projection of the Czech audiovisual works focusing on the relationship between video and performance after 2000. Curator: Alexandr Jančík
Debris Company
The most significant production of the Slovak dance scene of the last years nominated for the Dosky Award for the Best Production of the Season 2010/2011. Directed by Jozef Vlk.
5th production of the “Power of the Visegrad Dance” project
Oliver Reese – Dušan D. Pařízek
Divadlo Komedie Praha
An intimate production opening the fateful relationship of one of the most powerful men of the Third Reich (Alfréd Radok Award for the Best Male Performer of 2009 for Martin Pechlát) and the very famous and highly condemned Czech film actress. Directed by Dušan D. Pařízek.
1st production of the “No Komedie!” section
Divadlo DNO
A thirteen-year old grown-up girl Fagi is uncompromisingly checking the sixteen-year old Flora Theatre Festival out!
10.30 pmKonvikt / circus tent / free entry
FRI18 May
11.00 amMoravian Theatre
with dancer and choreographer Stanislava Vlčeková from Slovakia
PINA / Germany 2011, directed by Wim Wenders
A visually enthralling tribute to a world-famous choreographer.
Joseph Conrad – David Jařab
Divadlo Komedie Praha
A wild production of a visionary novella that was also adapted to a cult film Apocalypse Now by F. F. Coppola in the 1970s. A fascinating tour through the dark sides of the human psyche and soul under the masterful direction of David Jařab.
2nd production of the “No Komedie!” section
Divadlo DNO
A puppet cabaret for both children and grown-ups.
10.30 pmKonvikt / circus tent / free entry
SAT19 May
Ödön von Horváth
Divadlo Komedie Praha
A tragicomic story of a young woman who is somewhat different. A harsh criticism of corruptness and despotism of society in the times of decline – in a timeless directorial commentary of Kamila Polívková.
3rd production of the “No Komedie!” section
2.00 pmKonvikt / bailey / free entry
An audio reproduction co-produced with the Czech Radio Olomouc.
4.00 pmKonvikt / parkán / volný vstup
An audio reproduction co-produced with the Czech Radio Olomouc.
5.00 pmUpper square / free entry
Divadlo DNO & Divadlo na cucky
A burlesque describing loutishness on four wheels. A premiere of Divadlo DNO and the local Divadlo na cucky coproduction directed by Jiří Jelínek.
Roland Schimmelpfennig
Moravské divadlo Olomouc
A last performance of an original production of a contemporary German drama adapted by young members of the Moravian Theatre Olomouc in an imaginative staging of Martin Glaser.
A closing ceremony of the 16th Flora Theatre Festival
Peter Handke
Divadlo Komedie Praha
An ultimately last production of the Pražské komorní divadlo brought to the festival a week after the Prague premiere. A symbolic final word of Dušan D. Pařízek, a director of the most distinctive Czech theatre scene after the Velvet revolution.
4th production of the “No Komedie!” section
10.30 pmKonvikt / circus tent / free entry
An audiovisual interactive game with (not only) festival prizes.
SUN20 May
Peter Handke
Divadlo Komedie Praha
Martin Finger and Boleslav Polívka in a generational conflict of two exceptional and highly individual actors… A melancholic blues of an Austrian rebel Peter Handke under the direction of Dušan D. Pařízek.
5th production of the “No Komedie!” section
Johannes Urzidil – David Jařab
Divadlo Komedie Praha
A story of a man who was granted with bad luck, little confidence, a huge head and a big feeling of guilt. One of the most successful and most acclaimed Czech production of the last decade. Directed by David Jařab.
6th production of the “No Komedie!” section
4.00 pmKonvikt / circus tent / free entry
A debate with the creative team and the actors of the Pražské komorní divadlo.
O.LI.V.Y.
Or all that you could have seen (and haven’t) during the festival and all that you could have heard and (most probably) haven’t.
Joseph Roth – David Jařab
Divadlo Komedie Praha
The fascinating Martin Pechlát (Alfréd Radok Award for the Best Male Performer of 2011) as a sad hero and a loser in a production that was last year awarded the Josef Balvín Award for the best production of a German text staged in the Czech Republic in the last theatre season. Directed by David Jařab
7th production of the “No Komedie!” section
9.30 pmKonvikt / circus tent / free entry
DJ René & DJ Gafa
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