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Název inscenace odkazuje k Čepově prvotině (sbírce povídek z roku 1926), k jeho pojetí dvou světů („v tom druhém, naším očím skrytém, budou všechny věci přítomny zároveň a touha nebude utrpením, nýbrž slastí bez konce“) i k jeho životu ve dvou zemích (po roce 1948 emigroval do Francie, s rodnou zemí však zůstal spjat).
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Double Home / from Čep – A stage collage inspired by the work of Catholic prose writer and essayist Jan Čep. The title of the production is a reference to Čep’s first work, a collection of short stories from 1926, to his concept of two worlds (“in the second, hid to our eyes, all things will be present at once, and desire will be not be suffering, but delight without end”) and to his life in two countries (after 1948 he emigrated to France, but maintained ties with his home country). The multimedia stage composition involves three actors (Alois Švehlík, Lucie Trmíková, David Prachař), an artist (Igor Korpaczewski) and a musician (Martin Dohnal): against a background of Čep’s texts an artistic composition unfolds over the course of the production, a picture of a landscape with two figures and, behind the piano, the composer Martin Dohnal. The set has microphones, a table, chairs, a piano with two pairs of rubber boots, bales of hay and a canvas on the back wall. Among the main props used by the actors are hot potatoes, possibly as a symbol of home, or used “merely” as a grotesque mask. Lyricism alternates with exaggeration, deep contemplation with fleeting thoughts, visual and sound opposites weave themselves together into a whole. The production touches on archetypal symbols (youth, old age, love… and the overall paradox of being), the basic stories, the existential foundation of our existence.
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