A search for an answer to the question “Why are we suffering in an era of existential prosperity, in a land of social security, where there is no war?”
An exposition of a person in a love relationship, a person at work, and a person in a world affected by the climate crisis – three stories about the frenzy of human existence directed by Tomáš Loužný.

A delicate transcription of a poetic autobiography dedicated to “all those who live on the margins of society”.
A leading German intellectual’s memories of his parents, who survived the Holocaust, directed by a distinctive talent of the emerging theatre generation, Lena Brasch, and performed by the charismatic Vidina Popov.
In German with Czech surtitles.
Spring prologue to the Days of Jewish Culture held in autumn.

discussion after the production

How hard is growing up as a working-class, art-loving gay man in a provincial town? How does questioning the leading role of elites relate to the surge in right-wing extremism?
Personal reflections on coming of age and the exclusivity of education in a stylized “discussion with a European intellectual megastar”.
Directed by Adam Svozil

Both harsh and melancholic dreamlike scenes inspired by the work of E. A. Poe and Emily Dickinson – in a story about saying goodbye to a loved one. About grief and the power of family.Der Faust Award for the best German actress of 2024 – the superb Anna Drexler.
The top international ensemble is coming back to Olomouc one year later to the day (after last year’s The New Life), along with German director Christopher Rüping, to officially launch the 28th Flora!
In German with Czech surtitles.

18:30 dramaturgical introduction

Five performers explore the phenomenon of youth in a dynamic and raw choreographic score by a respected Greek artist.
A multi-layered, provocative work consisting of boldly explicit sequences that thematize various aspects of what it means to “be adolescent”. Unrestrained in terms of form, the show is full of haze and quality pop music!
Recommended for ages 15 and up.

Where do we get our fixed ideas about something for which we have no relevant information? Are they shaped by the environment or perhaps… art?
A project of the National Theatre’s Drama Ensemble and the ND Young platform – in collaboration with teenagers from children’s homes under the directorial and dramaturgical guidance of Janek Lesák and Natálie Strýčková Preslová.
Emotionally compelling, but also playful, self-ironic and above all authentic testimony about a world with many prejudices and myths attached to it.

Discussion is part of the production.

“My mission is to refute ethnocentrism, to show how much we are all alike and to pay tribute to the African cultures and philosophies from which I have drawn inspiration.”
Angela Nwagbo
A dance-music duet between a Czech-Nigerian performer and a Senegalese percussionist about the search for cultural and social belonging.

discussion after the production

The monotonous, empty life of a middle-class family is disrupted by a mysterious stranger – a diabolically seductive “redeemer”, after whose departure nothing is the same…
A stage adaptation of the book on which Pasolini’s ambiguous, controversial film about the “clash of material and spiritual values” was based, translated into an atmospheric world of captivating images that needs no words. Directed by Jakub Čermák.
Recommended for ages 15 and up.

19:00 dramaturgical introduction

An exploration of the mother-daughter relationship through the physical dialogue of Eszter Salamon and Erzsébet Gyarmati – in close contact with the audience, offering them a completely unique, intimate experience.
The first ever performance of the renowned choreographer and performer, who has presented her work in the most important theatres and museums around the world, in the Czech Republic.

A “family opera” full of visual enticements and symbolic scenes, appealing to both children and adults. The most famous opus of the leading representative of German late Romanticism, based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm – in an inventive and imaginative rendition by director Eliška Říhová.
Will Hansel and Gretel resist the lure of virtual reality and outwit the voracious witch…?

18:30 dramaturgical introduction

A timeless, chilling story from the Moravian countryside about jealousy, forgiveness and hope. The production of the original version of the 1904 opera by Janáček was co-produced with the National Theatre Brno as part of the Janáček Brno Festival 2024.
Czech musical classic through the eyes of an all-female production team – headed by the outgoing artistic director of the Moravian Theatre Opera, Veronika Kos Loulová.

18:30 dramaturgical introduction

„To me, a cowboy is both a pop culture icon and someone who cares about the animals in the nature. A cowboy is also a diamond hunter…” – dancer and choreographer Tomáš Janypka (wider nomination for the Thalia Award for Alternative Theatre)
A unique commentary on the archetypal figure of the man-cowboy in the present world, the hallmark of which is loneliness – a man who is not afraid to show his fragility and vulnerability.

An original reflection of the bizarre six-month residency of selected artists from Czechoslovakia in America’s “entertainment capital” in the late 1960s, pulsating with great music, enhanced by hallucinogenic mood and topped with exaggerative acting creations.
Karel Gott (forever) mit uns, or “What happened in Vegas stays in Vegas!”
Directed by Petr Erbes and Boris Jedinák.

discussion after the production

“I have made my peace with life in Slovakia. There are problems everywhere, but at least I understand the ones here.” – Two authors and four actresses have recorded the opinions of young women reflecting a specific period of their lives, filled with personal and social turbulence, in the form of documentary research.
In many variations and changing realities, the empathetic project of director Alžbeta Vrzgula links the experience of today’s thirty-something women with the attitudes of their peers from the normalization era.

In October 1928, a group of villagers killed six people during a tragic attack on a Romany settlement near the village of Pobedim in western Slovakia.
Director Pavol Viecha draws strictly upon archival materials and examines the private motives as well as social circumstances of the bloody act, seeking and finding connections with our present.

A riveting story of a strong heroine in a male-dominated world.
The DOSKY Awards for both the Best Actor and the Best Actress of the 2022/23 season for the long-standing mainstays of the Martin ensemble – Lucia Jašková as the proud widow of the murdered king and the defiant mother of the slain children, and her rival in a relentless duel, Marek Geišberg as Agamemnon.
A bitterly topical production by director Lukáš Brutovský about the demons of war.

“I have made my peace with life in Slovakia. There are problems everywhere, but at least I understand the ones here.” – Two authors and four actresses have recorded the opinions of young women reflecting a specific period of their lives, filled with personal and social turbulence, in the form of documentary research.
In many variations and changing realities, the empathetic project of director Alžbeta Vrzgula links the experience of today’s thirty-something women with the attitudes of their peers from the normalization era.

An associative excursion into a fantasy landscape where Johann Gottfried Herder meets Cyril, Methodius and contemporary Slovaks. An immersion into history and a distinctly theatrical depiction of its imprint in the present. A scenic mosaic about the never-ending “brain drain”.
A stage poem by director Lukáš Brutovský – “about the country from which one leaves…”

The final production of the festival profile of Slovakia’s prominent theatre is a brilliant adaptation of a sharp essayistic novel, awarded with the prestigious DOSKY 2024 for the Best Production and the Best Director of the Season!
The star quartet of Richard Stanke, Robert Roth, Alexander Bárta and Ľuboš Kostelný – who received the annual Tatra Bank Foundation Award for their exceptional acting interplay – directed by Dušan D. Pařízek.

19:30 dramaturgical introduction

“I have made my peace with life in Slovakia. There are problems everywhere, but at least I understand the ones here.” – Two authors and four actresses have recorded the opinions of young women reflecting a specific period of their lives, filled with personal and social turbulence, in the form of documentary research.
In many variations and changing realities, the empathetic project of director Alžbeta Vrzgula links the experience of today’s thirty-something women with the attitudes of their peers from the normalization era.

An urgent “physical poem” based on Stefan Zweig’s memoir The World of Yesterday. The memoirs of a sensitive Austrian humanist as a motivation (and memento) for the testimony of Slovak women in theatre, which accentuates the parallels between the “twilight of civilization” of the interwar period and the disturbing perspective of today’s reality.
“If a person or a nation does not remember their past, they have no identity.”
director Júlia Rázusová

An unexpected sensation of the last theatre season. After spring invitations to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt and the Berliner Theatertreffen, this fresh satire full of black humour and mystification won the seal for the best German-language production of 2024 in the summer poll held by the monthly Theater heute! The exclusive official ending of the 28th Flora, directed by Walter Bart.
In German with Czech surtitles.

19:00 dramaturgical introduction

Due to the illness of the performer, we are forced to cancel the performance IHOPEIWILL. Tickets can be refunded at the box office of the Moravian Theatre until May 30.
Thank you for your understanding!

„A ještě nám chtějí zakázat Velikonoce! Vymřeme. To my jsme tady oběti. Oběti feministický propagandy!“
Dokumentární sonda do osobních strachů a neřešené nerovnosti, ústící v násilí. Politici, aktivisté, strážkyně patriarchátu, novodobí disidenti či „ideální oběti“ v nesmiřitelné i komické polemice nad dokumentem, který téměř nikdo nečetl…
Petr Jeništa, Dan Kranich a Táňa Malíková v bingu o konci světa, inscenovaném Barbarou Herz.

„Vypadni vocaď, ty debilní hlavo z prdele vytažená!“
Divoký příběh bezprizorních dětí ulice v dusných reáliích poválečného Říma. Hněv, strach, rap & pot, krev a jiné tělní tekutiny v syrové, radikální interpretaci kontroverzního románu Ragazzi di vita, pulsující hudbou formace Hihihahaholky.
Anežka Šťastná, Ondřej Pavelka a Vojtěch Hrabák v režii uměleckého šéfa Divadla X10 Ondřeje Štefaňáka.

Doporučená přístupnost od 15 let.

„Co očekáváte od budoucnosti? – Nejdřív konec lidstva, pak konec kapitalismu…“
Německy hovořící ryba, mudrující pařez, interview s vysychajícím jezerem i koulovačka bez sněhu v magicko-realistické jevištní reflexi klimatické krize. „Archeologické ohledávání naší doby“ v osobité, tragikomické interpretaci Jany Kozubkové, Terezy Hof a Halky Třešňákové a režii umělecké šéfky A studia Rubín Lucie Ferenzové.
Uváděno ve spolupráci s Kolonie, z.s., německou uměleckou skupinou Futur II Konjunktiv a divadlem Theater unterm Dach.