2024-09-29 05:47:33
With a bouquet by Karel Jaromír Erben, the drama season of the Moravian Theater in Olomouc will open this Friday. Slovakian director Marián Pecko will try to bring the illusive, mystical and sometimes fateful atmosphere of classic Czech poetry to the stage. “His poetics can turn Erben’s ballads into a powerful and evocative stage work,” believes head of drama Roman Vencl.
The creators announce that they are based on current trends in theater, acting and other artistic disciplines. “We try to bring the old verses closer to the contemporary audience in a theatrical language that is closest to them and that they understand,” says director Marián Pecko.
Together with dramaturg Michaela Doleželová, he selected only some of the 13 ballads inspired by folk literature that Karel Jaromír Erben included in a book published in 1853. The audience can expect, for example, Polednice, Aquarius, Vrba, Svatební košile or Zlatý kolovrat. Each should have a significantly different processing.
“The director made considerable demands on the actors, both in terms of acting, movement and physicality, and they did everything to fulfill his ideas,” adds Doležalová.
In the production, which premieres this Friday, September 27 and Saturday, September 28, about half of the drama troupe performs. The scene, the dominant feature of which is a large transparent wall symbolizing the thin border between life and death, was designed by Pavol Andraško, and the costumes were prepared by Eva Farkašová. The music was created by Róbert Mankovecký.
The drama of the Moravian Theater returns to Erbenová Kytica after 82 years. In the season that is just starting, he will present a total of five premieres. “The 2024/2025 season will be marked by Czech dramatic work for the drama troupe, and that’s because we thought it would be interesting to juxtapose contemporary texts that will have their world premiere in our country, and to intersperse them with Czech classic work, as represented by Kytice, ” concludes head of drama Roman Vencl.