fri 15. 5. | 17:00–18:00 | S-klub
Doris Uhlich, Susanne Kirnbauer
One of the most original personalities of European dance in a duet with the legend of Austrian ballet. Doris Uhlich explores where prima ballerina Susanne Kirnbauer can “channel her energy” now that she is no longer actively “performing dance steps”.
A respectful, inspiring, intergenerational dialogue between exceptional artists with diverse professional experiences and backgrounds – coming at a time when society is fracturing and dividing.
discussion after the production
fri 15. 5. | 19:30–00:00 | Konvikt | festival tent | free entry
sat 16. 5. | 12:00–13:00 | Central | free entry
Jiří Adámek Austerlitz
An uncomfortably vivid reminder of Pussy Riot’s protest in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour fourteen years ago. An audio reproduction of the musical-dramatic composition by director Jiří Adámek Austerlitz – for three female voices and orchestra – which won an award at the prestigious Prix Europa 2025 festival.
In collaboration with Czech Radio Vltava.
sat 16. 5. | 14:00 | Sedmička
Martin Šinkovský
Moravian Theatre Olomouc
A historical exploration of the director Jan Janča, dedicated to the overlooked life story of Zdena Mašínová – the daughter of a legionnaire and First Czechoslovak Republic officer executed by the Nazis, and the sister of the most admired, yet most condemned refugees from a country terrorized by communists.
An intimate reflection on coming to terms with the past and the courage to face evil with dignity.
sat 16. 5. | 17:30 | Moravian Theatre
Wunderbaum, and ensemble
Schauspielhaus Bochum
During the final decade of the 20th century, borders were crumbling, capitalism was celebrating its definitive triumph, “history was over,” and a New York real estate magnate had been on the charts for several years with his autobiography, Trump: The Art of the Deal. Tony Schwartz, co-author of the book, would later write that its protagonist “has a limited ability to concentrate, superficial knowledge, and lacks empathy and a conscience”.
A satire by Walter Bart – director of the 28th Flora Theatre Festival hit Die Hundekot-Attacke – opens the 29th Flora Theatre Festival, with this year’s theme of Solidarity, shortly after its premiere. A Big, Beautiful Theatre Bill to start the festival with the BEST SHOW EVER!
In German with Czech surtitles.
19:00 dramaturgical introduction
sat 16. 5. | 20:30–00:00 | Konvikt | festival tent | free entry
sun 17. 5. | 08:30–09:30 | Central
Anete Melece
Ostružina, z.s., Divadlo Polárka
Olga lives in a small kiosk where she sells chewing gum, soda, magazines, and longs to travel. One day, the kiosk starts moving – with Olga still trapped inside – carrying her off to who knows where…
A story about how little it takes for things to “get moving”. An interactive movement performance by Barbora Látalová and Zden Brungot Svíteková for children aged 3 and up – about the human body and everything related to it.
sun 17. 5. | 09:00–10:00 | Konvikt | festival tent | free entry
sun 17. 5. | 12:00–13:00 | Central
Anete Melece
Ostružina, z.s., Divadlo Polárka
Olga lives in a small kiosk where she sells chewing gum, soda, magazines, and longs to travel. One day, the kiosk starts moving – with Olga still trapped inside – carrying her off to who knows where…
A story about how little it takes for things to “get moving”. An interactive movement performance by Barbora Látalová and Zden Brungot Svíteková for children aged 3 and up – about the human body and everything related to it.
sun 17. 5. | 14:00–15:05 | S-klub
Isabella Sedlak, Yousef Sweid
Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
“We’re a completely normal family… an Arab-Palestinian-Jewish-Israeli-Austrian-Romanian-Christian family.” Yousef Sweid, a Palestinian actor born in Israel and based in Germany, navigates the “border between many worlds and conflicting entities” in this “autofictional” stand-up.
He returns to Flora – directed by Isabella Sedlak – nine years after his successful guest performance with MGT Berlin and the thematically related production The Situation – at the end of Shermin Langhoff’s tenure as artistic director in Berlin, during which she transformed the face of the German-language theatre scene with her concept of post-migrant theatre.
In English with Czech surtitles.
discussion after the production
sun 17. 5. | 17:00–19:15 | Moravian Theatre
Giacomo Puccini
Moravian Theatre Olomouc
Puccini’s first verismo opera and one of the most famous and frequently performed works in the operatic repertoire. The drama of a passionate, sensual, loving, and jealous singer set against the backdrop of political intrigues during the Napoleonic era – featuring minimalist set design by Marek Cpin and musical direction by Zsolt Hamar.
This gourmet musical feast is served by the director Daniela Špinar.
mon 18. 5. | 15:00–16:20 | S-klub
8lidí (8people)
The S-Klub in Olomouc will be transformed, to the soft sound of a Tibetan singing bowl, into a warm sauna where you can relax your body, release endorphins, soothe your environmental grief, and even ignite and stir your thoughts!
How should we react to climate change? What positive lessons can we take from the crisis? The hot topic of global warming discussed in a steamy atmosphere – with a theatre group whose work has been stifled by burnout…
mon 18. 5. | 18:00–19:40 | Moravian Theatre
Karl Ove Knausgård
Divadlo Na zábradlí Prague
A “literary striptease” or “the literary event of the 21st century”? Karl Ove Knausgård’s voluminous novel has sparked both enthusiasm and outrage, becoming a global bestseller in the process. The second part of this brutally honest reality show has been sensitively adapted for the stage by dramaturge Dora Štědroňová and director Jan Mikulášek of Divadlo Na zabradlí, just voted Czech Theatre of the Year.
The “central subjects” of Knausgård’s voyeurism are brilliantly portrayed by Miloslav König – awarded Actor of the Year for his portrayal of Karl Ove – and Simona Lewandovská.
19:30 dramaturgical introduction
mon 18. 5. | 20:00–23:30 | Konvikt | festival tent | free entry
tue 19. 5. | 09:00–10:00 | Konvikt | festival tent | free entry
tue 19. 5. | 10:15–11:15 | Konvikt | festival tent | free entry
tue 19. 5. | 15:00–16:00 | Central
Temporary Collective
Dancer Tereza Ondrová’s multi-layered performance, made in creative symbiosis with director Petra Tejnorová, is a unique exploration of personal history and “body memory,” as well as the history of a specific place and the geological processes that shape and permeate it.
Within the context of the Czech theatre scene, Ondrová’s introspection is uniquely candid, authentically pulsating within the unusual framework of biography – history – geology.
discussion after the production
tue 19. 5. | 17:30 | Moravian Theatre
Miroslav Krobot, Lubomír Smékal
Moravian Theatre Olomouc
A non-tragic tribute to the Bořina pub on the banks of the Moravská Sázava river and to the famous Zábřeh native Jan Eskymo Welzl - an adventurer who, as a fur trapper, trader, and justice of the peace, spent three decades on the inhospitable New Siberian Islands and in the harsh Canadian Yukon.
A new, original production by the team of director Miroslav Krobot and psychologist Lubomír Smékal.
wed 20. 5. | 15:00–16:05 | S-klub
Omar Rajeh, Maqamat
An artist from Lebanon reflecting on the history of his hometown, one shaped by beauty, political upheavals, and the resilience and vitality of its inhabitants. Rajeh’s “return” to Beirut is not – in the spirit of the leitmotif of Solidarity – a nostalgic recapitulation, but a promise of hope, unfolded in the symbolic final act of the production.
The embodiment of memories through the body, dance as an expression of resistance – in a subtle work in which, alongside personal history, the collective memory of a unique place is imprinted as well.
discussion after the production
wed 20. 5. | 18:00–19:00 | Central | free entry
Jiří Adámek Austerlitz
An uncomfortably vivid reminder of Pussy Riot’s protest in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour fourteen years ago. An audio reproduction of the musical-dramatic composition by director Jiří Adámek Austerlitz – for three female voices and orchestra – which won an award at the prestigious Prix Europa 2025 festival.
In collaboration with Czech Radio Vltava.
wed 20. 5. | 18:00–19:35 | Moravian Theatre
Henry Becque
Dejvické divadlo
Family happiness, peace of mind, and financial security come to an end when the head of a household dies unexpectedly. A widow and her three daughters must quickly adapt to the situation. But how, when they’ve never managed a budget, and on top of that, they’re being pressured by a lawyer, a notary, and creditors and… “the wheels of the economy never stop turning”?
The story of four women who are unable to adapt because they don’t have a moment to catch their breath and take a good look around themselves, as seen through the eyes of director Jan Frič.
The Czech Theatre Production of the Year: A story of unscrupulousness and the cynicism of power.
19:30 dramaturgical introduction
wed 20. 5. | 20:00–23:30 | Konvikt | festival tent | free entry
thu 21. 5. | 15:30–17:05 | Moravian Theatre
Henry Becque
Dejvické divadlo
Family happiness, peace of mind, and financial security come to an end when the head of a household dies unexpectedly. A widow and her three daughters must quickly adapt to the situation. But how, when they’ve never managed a budget, and on top of that, they’re being pressured by a lawyer, a notary, and creditors and… “the wheels of the economy never stop turning”?
The story of four women who are unable to adapt because they don’t have a moment to catch their breath and take a good look around themselves, as seen through the eyes of director Jan Frič.
The Czech Theatre Production of the Year: A story of unscrupulousness and the cynicism of power.
thu 21. 5. | 18:00–18:45 | S-klub
Adam Russell-Jones
Unbridled stage ecstasy, inspired by the gruelling dance marathons of the times of Great Depression, in this raw contribution by a young British dancer to the 29th Flora Theatre Festival theme.
Russell-Jones has transformed his long-standing negative experience with overproduction and the constant, enormous pressure on his performance into a bold gesture – an abstract depiction of dance as the sole means of both escaping reality and “surviving” it.
A rising star of the global dance scene – for the first time in the Czech Republic!
discussion after the production
fri 22. 5. | 09:00–10:00 | Konvikt | festival tent | free entry
fri 22. 5. | 15:00–16:30 | Museum of Modern Art Olomouc & Central
Adam Dragun, Silvia Vollmann, Ivana Gibová
Uhol_92
The directing trio of Adam Dragun, Silvia Vollmann, and Júlia Rázusová, throughout three “stops” of this touring production – each presenting a completely different formal approach and poetics – explore questions regarding one’s relationship to state symbols and national pride.
The creators imaginatively respond to frequent (not only Slovak) discussions on the topic of national identity and situations in which these symbols are deliberately exploited for purely pragmatic political goals.
fri 22. 5. | 17:30–20:10 | Moravian Theatre
Ödön von Horváth, Ivan Buraj
Divadlo v Dlouhé Prague
This scenically precise collage of plays by Ödön von Horváth (Tales from the Vienna Woods and Faith, Hope, and Charity), adapted and directed by Ivan Buraj, exposes the trials and tribulations of two young women striving for freedom in a city that longs to return to the “good old days”.
A metaphor for the emergence of totalitarianism in a society that, faced with the complexities of a changing world, takes refuge – in a false illusion of security – behind the veneered façade of false nostalgia.
A compelling statement from the new artistic leadership of one of the leading Czech theatres.
19:00 dramaturgical introduction
fri 22. 5. | 20:00–21:15 | Konvikt | festival tent | free entry
“Politeness has changed very little. But music moves the world.” Denis Bango, aka Fvck_Kvlt, is one of the most charismatic figures on the Slovak music scene. His festival concert is a loose follow-up to last year’s “politically engaged” rap storm by Denis’s collaborator Dušan Vlk.
fri 22. 5. | 21:30–00:00 | Konvikt | festival tent | free entry
sat 23. 5. | 09:00–10:30 | Museum of Modern Art Olomouc & Central
Adam Dragun, Silvia Vollmann, Ivana Gibová
Uhol_92
The directing trio of Adam Dragun, Silvia Vollmann, and Júlia Rázusová, throughout three “stops” of this touring production – each presenting a completely different formal approach and poetics – explore questions regarding one’s relationship to state symbols and national pride.
The creators imaginatively respond to frequent (not only Slovak) discussions on the topic of national identity and situations in which these symbols are deliberately exploited for purely pragmatic political goals.
sat 23. 5. | 11:30–12:30 | Konvikt | festival tent | free entry
sat 23. 5. | 15:00–16:20 | S-klub
Alžbeta Vrzgula
Uhol_92
A witty production, playful in both its music and acting, full of inventive references to pop culture and mythology, which influence our lives today perhaps more than we are able to realize…
A “broad-spectrum view” of the theme of female-male relationships, bonds, and narratives in a production by Alžbeta Vrzgula, co-founder and artistic director of the Uhol_92 ensemble, who captivated audiences at the 28th Flora Theatre Festival with her empathetic political commentary Eden. Escape from Paradise.
sat 23. 5. | 18:00–19:35 | Moravian Theatre
Hába podle Sofokla ad.
Činoherní studio Ústí nad Labem
A search for where all the social utopias and visions of emancipation have gone, and whether our future hasn’t disappeared as well. All this against the backdrop of that good old blend of the personal and the political, “with the participation of Oedipus-ness, anti-Oedipus-ness, and Hamlet-ness” – because… “what’s really going on here?!”
Who killed Utopia? C the Unseen! Detective Oedipus will investigate it all! A chilling, crazy tragedy by director Michal Hába, full of plague and humour.
A co-production with Lachende Bestien theatre group and Chemnitz, European Capital of Culture 2025.
19:30 dramaturgical introduction
sat 23. 5. | 20:00–21:00 | Konvikt | festival tent | free entry
“The younger generation can’t afford not to be political.”
Adam Dragun, co-founder of Berlin Manson – a Bratislava-Košice synth-punk band, whose lyrics highlight pressing issues such as the housing crisis, mental health, social insecurity, and Eastern European identity.
sat 23. 5. | 21:15–00:00 | Konvikt | festival tent | free entry
sun 24. 5. | 09:00–09:45 | Café nacucky! | free entry
sun 24. 5. | 10:00–11:00 | Café nacucky! | free entry
sun 24. 5. | 12:00–13:15 | S-klub
Astrid Lindgren
Činoherní studio Ústí nad Labem
Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Efraim’s Daughter Longstocking – who doesn’t know her?
She’s outspoken, spirited, and just plain unique. She can pick up a horse, doesn’t bother much with social conventions, and only follows the rules when they make sense. But she definitely knows how not to be afraid, how not to leave the weak behind, and how not to let anyone take away her joy of discovering all kinds of worlds.
Part concert, part spectacle – a treat for everyone who is or ever was a child – in this family-friendly production directed by Michal Hába. Family theatre (ages 7+)
sun 24. 5. | 14:00–15:20 | Divadlo na cucky
Silvia Vollmann
Divadlo na cucky!
Pavla Dostálová and Jakub Spišák set out “in the footsteps” of Květoslava Viestová – a native of Olomouc who led Bratislava’s largest resistance group during World War II, and… the first Olomouc Flora.
Director Silvia Vollmann focuses on this unjustly forgotten heroine, as well as on the role of women during pivotal historical events and the fact that their bravery is often downplayed or relativized.
discussion after the production
sun 24. 5. | 17:30–19:00 | Central
Kim de l'Horizon
Bühnen Bern
An adaptation of a debut novel that “will shake your prejudices and certainties” and which, shortly after its release, catapulted Kim de l'Horizon into an icon of contemporary queer literature.
A gripping performance by actress Lucie Kotiková, who masterfully plays with the novel’s poetic language, intense emotions, and dialogue with the audience, earning her the title of “Acting Talent of the Year” for her brilliant performance directed by Sebastian Schug.
Bühnen Bern’s first performance at the Flora Theatre Festival.
In German with Czech surtitles.
discussion after the production