From August 1 to 10, 2024, the former post office building on Nádražní Street in České Budějovice hosted a new site-specific project by Divadlo Continuo entitled For Now, Until Then, Forever.
Continuo Theatre’s summer site-specific projects are a unique annual theatrical event in which this international group regularly revives forgotten, abandoned, or unknown places in southern Bohemia and transforms them into theatrical stages.
Continuo’s summer projects are a phenomenon of Czech independent theater. The continuously developed program of movement and visual theater is unparalleled in our country.
Lidovky – Jana Machalická 2021
For ten days in August, the former post office building was transformed into a theater, where the creators invited audiences to experience an evening full of surprises, unexpected encounters, visual and theatrical poetry in a completely unconventional theatrical format.
As is typical for work of Continuo Theatre, the script for this performance was written by the place itself – the history of the building and its genius loci. The building, through which the fates of hundreds and thousands of people passed, was inscribed with words and sentences supplemented by fragments of letters from Franz Kafka and other famous personalities as well as anonymous writers. Forgotten and never delivered parcels and fictional letters that were never written. Unspoken, undelivered, unread. Untold or forgotten stories, small, seemingly insignificant events that took place or are taking place in the background of the big ones. The history of Europe in fragments of letters during one evening.
