February 2022
Fri
20:00
Those Who Speak For Themselves / Czech spoken
The Only Story Is Yours / concept, screenplay & director: Jana Svobodová
Theatre performance Those Who Speak For Themselves transforms Archa Theatre into a huge gallery where authentic life stories of twelve women become the exhibits. The audience is left with the decision whether they will experience all the stories or only certain parts of them and the order in which they will assemble them. An important part of the unique theatrical installation by theatre director Jana Svobodová is the original music of Michal Nejtek.
Those Who Speak For Themselves is a show in which the performers are not actors. They don't play roles. They only represent themselves. Stories intertwine, people meet unexpectedly. Like when you walk down the street, you think of something, someone passes by and you catch his sentence. And it folds into a new story. Then it becomes the only story, yours.
Watch the documentary film by director Barbora Johansson, based on an interview with Jana Svobodová, director of the Those Who Speak For Themselves performance:
TRAILER
Media
Ty, jež mluví samy za sebe – Divadení noviny, 4.7.2021
Ti, kdo mluví za sebe: Galerie životaběhů rozprostřená v sále – novinky.cz, 22.7.2020
Ti, kdo mluví sami za sebe. Archa se mění v galerii, odhalí příběhy žen – idnes.cz, 29.6.2021
Dokument na divadle – Události v kultuře, Česká televize, 29.6.2021
Credits
Concept, Screenplay & Director: Jana Svobodová
Dramaturgy: Ondřej Hrab
Music: Michal Nejtek
Sound design: Ladislav Štěrba, Jan Sedláček
Light design: Pavel Kotlík
Asistant director, production: Romana Sekáčová
Costume adjustment: Jiřina Veselá
Personal stories provided, production co-created and performed by:
Ivana Blašková
Zuzana Drápalová
Zuzana Lapšanská
Lara Hereu-Macho
Hana Kokšalová
Nikola Križková
Pavlína Müllerová
Jane Scalabroni
Hana Slaninová
Eliška Šíchová
Lucie Vrbíková
Martina Marie Živá
The theatre production was created at Archa Theater during the Covid-19 pandemic. Those Who Speak For Themselves is part of a documentary theater project supported by the EEA Grants.
Premieres: 29 and June 2021, Archa Theatre, Prague
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Supported by the peoples of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants.
Sat
20:00
Those Who Speak For Themselves / English spoken
The Only Story Is Yours / concept, screenplay & director: Jana Svobodováperformed in English
March 2022
Wed
20:00
Tara Fuki a M. Dvořáček – Motýlí křídla rozvlní Archu
presented by Archa Theatre and Indies ProductionWed
20:00
Jan Mocek Showcase: Virtual Ritual
a retrospective of Jan Mocek's theatrical workSun
20:00
Maceo Parker / POSTPONED TO November 2, 2022
Presented by ISAMAX s.r.o.Wed
20:00
Divadlo Vizita – Permissible harassment
Jaroslav Dušek, Pjér la Šé'z, Zdeněk Konopásek, Viktor ZborníkThu
20:00
Divadlo Vizita – Resistible enticement
Jaroslav Dušek, Pjér la Šé'z, Zdeněk Konopásek, Viktor ZborníkFri
20:00
Common Roots: Concert with Ukraine
Спільне коріння: Концерт з Україною
Театр Арха пропонує українцям безкоштовний вхід на концерт. Щоб отримати квиток, достатньо лише показати український або закордонний паспорт на касі театру.
Sun
20:00
Jan Burian – Self-portrait 70
or A hilarious show about the messed up life of one artist
Thu
19:00
Thu
21:30
April 2022
Fri
19:00
Fri
21:30
Sat
20:00
CANCELLED – Those Who Speak for Themselves
Purchased tickets will remain valid for the new date 29 May 2022.Sun
20:00
CANCELLED – Those Who Speak for Themselves
Purchased tickets will remain valid for the new date 29 May 2022.Wed
20:00
GenotPresents#5
---__--___ (More Eaze & Seth Graham), Klahrk, Natálie Pleváková
Thu
20:00
Colonization – new origin
VOSTO5 / Archa Theatre / 4+4 days in motion
last reprises
Fri
20:00
Colonization – new origin
VOSTO5 / Archa Theatre / 4+4 days in motion
last reprises
Sat
17:00
Colonization – new origin
VOSTO5 / Archa Theatre / 4+4 days in motion
last reprises
Sun
19:00
Colonization – new origin
VOSTO5 / Archa Theatre / 4+4 days in motion
last performance
Mon
18:30
Czech Dance Platform: INspiraCe
420PEOPLE & BERG Orchestra & Archa Theatre
English–friendly
Thu
20:00
INspiraCe
420PEOPLE & BERG Orchestra & Archa Theatre
Discussion with artists after performance.
May 2022
Fri
20:00
CANCELLED: Van der Graaf Generator
presented by 10:15 EntertainmentSun
20:00
last performance
Wed
20:00
Divadlo Vizita – Certainty of a muzzle
Jaroslav Dušek, Pjér la Šé'z, Zdeněk Konopásek, Viktor ZborníkThu
20:00
Divadlo Vizita – Postmortem frequency sensing
Jaroslav Dušek, Pjér la Šé'z, Zdeněk Konopásek, Viktor ZborníkSun
20:00
Those Who Speak For Themselves / Czech spoken
The Only Story Is Yours / concept, screenplay & director: Jana Svobodová
Mon
09:00
Those Who Speak For Themselves / Czech spoken
The Only Story Is Yours / concept, screenplay & director: Jana Svobodová
for schools / Theatre Towards Democracy project
June 2022
Wed
20:00
Boy Harsher + Never Sol
presented by Fource Entertainment and Heartnoize PromotionFri
20:00
Roscoe Mitchell Quintet
Jon Irabagon | Roland Dahinden & Eclectus EnsembleFri
09:00
Petr Nikl – Yellow Darkness
a colourful melodrama
English–friendly
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.
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