June 2022
What can a single breath mean?
A fluttering scarf on a mountain peak. A cloud of steam. The smell of the ocean.
Everything that flows, billows, spreads or smoulders is carried by or wafts through the air.
In Czech, the word "drak" means both dragon and kite. There are many different types of dragons/kites.
Heavenly dragons are servants of the gods and guardians of their land. Earth dragons live in the seas and rivers. Spirit dragons are protectors of peasants, they can summon rain and wind. Guardian dragons keep a watchful eyer over treasure. Some dragons have five fingers.
The paper dragon – or kite – is the first portent of fortune, hills and plains.
It makes wishes come true.
The Ministry of Kites is meeting at a slow pace.
Breathe in and breathe out.
Slowly.
Surely.
The TABULA RASA association was established in 2019 as the logical outcome of the collaboration of artists who met on several different projects. The core team consists of Mikoláš Zika, Jeník Tyl and Jan Brejcha, who studied production and scenography at the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre at DAMU in Prague. The association provides an auteur platform for the creation of theatre and other projects, combining various artistic approaches. It is a production-artistic cell that in addition to its own original theatrical productions, creates exhibitions, scenography, publications and art objects.
Mikoláš Zika
Scenographer, illustrator, graphic artist
Jan Brejcha
Scenographer, carver, painter
Jeník Tyl
Producer, lyricist
Sára Pospíšilová
Production manager
Barbora Burdová
Dramaturgy
Šimon Janíček
Theatre technician / lighting technician
Petr Slunečko
Music producer, translator
Credits
Premieres: 13 and 14 July 2021, Archa Theatre, Prague
Produced by the Archa Theatre within the dramaturgical module Archa.Fresh.
Fri
20:00
Roscoe Mitchell Quintet
Jon Irabagon | Roland Dahinden & Eclectus EnsembleFri
09:00
Petr Nikl – Yellow Darkness
a colourful melodrama
for schools / Theatre Towards Democracy project
Sat
20:00
VEKTROSKOP 4.0 | Robert Henke – CBM 8032 AV
afterparty: HRTL + R22Fri
20:00
The Tiger Lillies & Berg Orchestra – Bohemian Nights
Postponed from May 14, 2020, November 13, 2020, May 29, 2021 and January 20, 2022. Your tickets remain valid.
English–friendly
Sat
20:00
The Tiger Lillies & Berg Orchestra – Bohemian Nights
Postponed from May 15, 2020, November 14, 2020, May 30, 2021 and January 21, 2022. Your tickets remain valid.
July 2022
Sun
20:00
postponed from July 16, 2020 and July 15, 2021
August 2022
Fri
20:00
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard + support: Grace Cummings
presented by fourceSun
20:00
Arooj Aftab
presented by Heartnoize Promotion and Archa TheatreMon
10:00
International Summer School on Theatre in Social Context 2022
22 August - 4 September 2022September 2022
Mon
18:00
Opening of exhibition of theatre photographs
30 Years of Continuo TheatreFri
18:00
Meeting with the festival guests
30 Years of Continuo TheatreSat
17:30
Conference Theatre and politics
30 Years of Continuo TheatreOctober 2022
Thu
20:00
INspiraCe
420PEOPLE & BERG Orchestra & Archa Theatre
Fri
20:00
INspiraCe
420PEOPLE & BERG Orchestra & Archa Theatre
November 2022
Wed
20:00
Maceo Parker
Presented by ISAMAX s.r.o.postponed from April 6, 2020 / October 25, 2020 / April 11, 2021 / March 20, 2022
December 2022
Sun
20:00
EKG Of Love and Darkness
Igor Malijevský, Jaroslav Rudiš and guestsMon
20:00