CLOSING TIME
A theatrical ritual for another day. What do we have to do to make the sun rise again in the morning?
Concept and direction: Pavel Štourač
Dramaturgy: Marek Turošík
Visual concept, stage design: Helena Štouračová, Pavel Štourač
Cooperation on the realization of set design: Marcela Záchenská
Music and sound design: Šimon Pužej & team
Light design: Vojtěch Dvořák
Performers: Kateřina Šobáňová, Sara Bocchini, Granada Gallego, Ivan Vanko
Production: Petr Hromek, Martin Mikl
Booking: Nikola Križková
PR / media: Zuzana Bednarčiková
Premiere: Plum Yard, Malovice, 31. 5. 2024
Tickets available here
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Party’s over. Only the last four remain. The owners or the last visitors? Survivors of global disasters? Staff? Drunks who think they’re gods? False prophets who rave about the end of the world? Psychiatric patients in a locked ward who can’t shake nightmares and dark fantasies?
The inspiration for Continuo Theatre’s latest production, CLOSING TIME, comes from mythological stories, the oldest surviving texts and the most modern scientific theories about the origin and extinction of the world, as well as the fact that we are part of a world that is confronted today and every day with ideas of global catastrophe, whether climate, war or cosmic.
Despite the apparent seriousness of the themes addressed in the production, there is no shortage of insight, poetry and humour. As is already typical of Continuo’s work, the new production combines the language of physical theatre with a lively musical component, but above all with a specific visual theatrical poetics that manages, with its paradoxical universality, to capture the most intimate human moments, understandable to both child and adult.
Everything happens in a circle. Four performers in a six-metre arena surrounded by spectators. In a space not divided by theatrical convention into stage and auditorium. For in all this questioning of meaning, we are all together. We are all facing it, regardless of any real or perceived differences.
The physical experience of being in close proximity to the theatrical action is enhanced by the music and sound composition, which was created throughout the rehearsal process and in which all the performers participate. The “musical instruments” are mostly completely non-musical objects whose tones, sounds, resonances and vibrations are combined in the resulting electroacoustic composition under the direction of Šimon Pužej.
The production is directed by the artistic director Pavel Štourač in collaboration with performers Kateřina Šobáňová, Sara Bocchini, Granada Gallego and Ivan Vanko. The dramaturge of the production is Marek Turošík, a long-time collaborator of the company, and the artistic concept of the production is the work of Helena Štouračová and Pavel Štourač.
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