Ivana Uhlířová – Vojtěch Mašek
MIMO ZÁPIS (OFF THE RECORD)
Studio Hrdinů Prague
MON 15 May │ 4.30 pm S-klub PROGRAMME CHANGE!!!
At the beginning, there was a word. A sentence. A diary written by a Swiss painter Paul Klee. The stage collage Mimo zápis (Off the Record) is neither a biographical drama nor author's portrait. It concerns the complex theme of work, creation of a piece of art, identity, authorship and the act of creation itself. It seeks to capture the way of thinking of the innovative painter, his aim to precisely capture the reality, and creating rules for artistic creation.
On the grounds of a situation describing the need to capture reality in great details, two actors move – two personified parts of one personality – the intuitive and the rational one. The tension arising between them is caused by their honest effort to make a perfect performance and their struggle for leading position. Third character is the diary, text, examined object about which and with which the actors play.
It is a directorial debut of Ivana Uhlířová and hand in hand with Klee's legacy she asks philosophical questions and at the same time creates original and playful Dadaist nonsense poetry, perceives the absurdity and the paradox of human existence.
Every game desperately needs rules. Only with rules it can get out of control of the everyday life, create a hermetic world on which grounds the difference between reality and fantasy disappears.
Paul Klee
Who has ever opened a diary and wanted to write the first sentence knows the sieve through which many sentences pass to catch the one which is worth writing down.
Ivana Uhlířová
directed by Ivana Uhlířová
dramaturgy Eva Prchalová
stage design Antonín Šilar
music Aid Kid, Veronika Linhartová
sound Aid Kid
creative group producer Jakub Felcman
cast Václav Dragoun, Michal Kern, Ivana Uhlířová
premiere 7 April 2017
length 60‘ without intermission
Uhlířová's direction bets on the intersection of a clownery and philosophical speeches.(…) The sketch-like quality is highlighted by the fact that communication of both main characters in not a dialogue but rather a shouting match of one mind. However, both actors succeeded to create the illusion of a dialogue thanks to their amazing work with voice and gestures. (…) The production resembles a funny wordplay with deep meaning. True Dada!
Dominik Melichar, Theatre Newspaper, 2 May 2017
Ivana Uhlířová (1980) after graduation at Janáček Conservatory in Ostrava, she started working at Petr Bezruč Theatre. She also worked at Divadlo Na Vinohradech, Divadlo Husa na provázku (e.g. Prince Myshkin is an Idiot, 2004) or MeetFactory (e.g. a monodrama Land Without Words, 2008). She appeared in films Boredom in Brno, Walking Too Fast, Burning Bush, Clownwise, etc.
At Divadlo Komedie she portrayed a great variety of characters (mostly main ones) since 2005: for the role of Elisabeth in Horváth's drama Faith, Hope, Charity she won her second Alfred Radok Award in 2010 (the first was Talent of the Year 2006) – the production was featured at the Flora Theatre Festival in 2012.
Ivana Uhlířová made her mark abroad – she won over the audience in a German speaking role at Schauspielhaus Zürich, which resulted in director Christopher Rüping's invitation to perform in Kammerspiele in Munich (in adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel The Gambler). Dušan Pařízek cast her in his international project The Case Švejk.
Last autumn, she presented her original play debut called Lidový kousek (Folk Piece). This year she continued with her stage collage Mimo zápis (Off the Records) at Studio Hrdinů.
Vojtěch Mašek (1977), comic strip writer and cartoonist, multiple laureate of the prestigious Czech Comics Award Muriel, studied dramaturgy and scriptwriting at FAMU film academy. Together with Džian Baban he creates comic strips for the cultural bi-monthly magazine A2 or various other valued comic books Sloni v Marienbadu (2004), Za vším hledej doktora Ženu (2006), Poslední chobotango (2008), Pandemonium aneb Dějiny sousedství (2008) and Hanka (2009). He is the initiator of the Recykliteratura (Recycliterature) project. He participated in comic series The Czechs based on screenplay of Pavel Kosatík for the Czech Television series České století (Czech Century) – his episode called How Gottwald murdered Slánský ranks among the best of the whole series.