FOR NOW, UNTIL THEN, FOREVER

International theatre site-specific project during the South Specific Festival
1. – 10. 8. 2024, České Budějovice

Jižní Svéráz 2024 / South Specific 2024
A unique site-specific theatre festival combining the power of Continuo Theatre, South Bohemian Theatre and REZI.DANCE Komařice within the European Capital of Culture Budweis 2028 project.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

From 1 to 10 August 2024, a new site-specific project by Continuo Theatre called FOR NOW, TILL THEN, FOREVER will take place in the former post office building in Nádražní Street in České Budějovice. 

Continuo Theatre’s summer site-specific projects are an annual unique theatre event in which this international group regularly revives forgotten, abandoned or unknown places in South Bohemia and transforms them into theatre stages.

Continuo’s summer projects are a phenomenon of Czech independent theatre. The continuously developed programme of movement and visual theatre is unique in the Czech Republic. 

Lidovky – Jana Machalická 2021

For ten days in August, the building of the former post office will be transformed into a theatre where the creators will invite the audience to experience an evening full of surprises, unexpected encounters, art and theatre poetry in a completely unconventional theatre format. 

As is typical of Continuo’s work, the script for this performance was written by the place itself – the history of the building and its genius loci. The fates of hundreds and thousands of people written in words and sentences in letters that have passed through this building will be complemented by fragments of letters by Franz Kafka and other famous personalities together with anonymous letter writers. Forgotten and never delivered parcels and fictitious letters that were never written. Unspoken, unread, untold or forgotten stories, small, seemingly insignificant events that took place against the backdrop of the big ones. The history of Europe in scraps of letters in one evening.

The 28th edition of Continuo Theatre’s international site-specific project will for the first time be part of the JIŽNÍ SVÉRÁZ / SOUTH SPECIFIC programme, a festival of site-specific and immersive theatre within the European Capital of Culture České Budějovice 2028 project. In addition to members of Continuo Theatre, about twenty invited artists from the Czech Republic and abroad – performers, dancers, musicians and artists – will collaborate in its preparation and realization.

As in previous years, this year’s performances will not lack the original theatrical practices for which these projects have become a popular cultural event. Physical proximity to the theatrical action, immersiveness in which the spectator often becomes a co-creator of the story of the performance by choice, the search for details and connections, interactivity, the joint movement of actors and spectators in space, live music, physical theatre and visual poetry. Audiences can look forward to all this and much more from 1 to 10 August in the former post office building in České Budějovice.

TICKETS

Ticket prices:
Adults 390 CZK
Reduced admission 290,- (students, seniors)
ZTP 50% discount on the basic entrance fee.

PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS

The performance takes place indoors and lasts approximately 2 hours.

Beginning: 9 pm

Venue: the former post office building in Nádražní Street, České Budějovice

Contact:
Petr Hromek
+420 777 875 208
petr@continuo.cz

Please note:

It is strictly forbidden to use cameras, camcorders or mobile phones to record the performance. It is also forbidden to use your own sources of light, like torches, headlamps, mobile phones, etc.

Please, don’t take your pets with you.

Thank you for respecting the rules.

Accommodation: 

In České Budějovice you can find a lot of accommodation capacities – hotels, pensions or campsites.

Parking: 

On-site parking is not possible. There are various parking options in the city, there is indoor parking in the immediate vicinity at the Mercury Center for 20 CZK / hour.

OPEN CALL 2024

Continuo Theatre is opening the Call for Artists willing to participate in the international site-specific project in Malovice and České Budějovice (South Bohemia, Czech Republic) from 1th July to 13th August 2024.

The call is open for actresses/actors, performers, dancers, visual artists and musicians with previous artistic experience (art school studies, theatre group membership, personal projects) and sincere interest in participating in the project.

Continuo Theatre is an international independent theatre group led by Pavel Štourač, its director and artistic leader. Since 1995 the company has been settled in Malovice, a little village in South Bohemia (25 km far from České Budějovice) in a former farmstead, the Plum Yard. Members of Continuo Theatre research an authentic, personal connection between visual artistic expression and physical acting, rhythm, voice, and musicality. During its existence, Continuo Theatre created almost fifty performances and produced more than twenty-five international site-specific projects that involved over four hundred participants from all over the world.

The basic philosophy of Continuo’s site-specific projects is to facilitate a creative international meeting of theatre-makers and theatre students with different approaches to work and with a common goal. The group of participants will live and work together for one and half month both in the Plum Yard in Malovice and in a big recently abandoned post office building in České Budějovice. This site, as well as the particular meeting of the participants, will be an inspiration for creative workshops dealing with movement, voice, visual arts and music, and for the final performance.

The performance will be based on the movement, voice and visual art workshops and training, which will take place during the first weeks of the project at the Plum Yard in Malovice. The workshop will flow into a creative process leading to the creation of the final performance, which will be presented to the audience in the former post office building in České Budějovice every evening from 1 to 10 August for about 2 and a half hours. The workshops and the following creative process will be led by the members of Continuo Theatre under the supervision of its artistic director Pavel Štourač.

Candidate profile
We are interested in hearing from artists with interest, energy and endurance, willing to work and share artistic visions in the group, with enthusiasm for creating together and with desire to discover new creative possibilities, to offer, to learn, to try, to fail and to try again. Due to the high demanding nature of the work in the project preparation phase, a good physical and mental state of the participants is required. The work will be intensive throughout the whole period and will take place not only indoor but also outdoor. The participants must be committed for the whole duration of the project. At least the basic knowledge of English is required as it will be the main communication language of the project team.

Financial conditions
The participants will only pay a contribution for food, and they will cover their own travel expenses to Malovice and back. Cooking (three meals per day), accommodation and local transport connected with the project will be provided by the company. Participation fee (contribution for food): 7900 CZK (320 EUR)

Application
Participants of the project will be selected according to their application form, CV, motivation letter (all material in English), short video self-introduction (more details in application form), and documentation of their previous work.

Video documentation of previous experiences is required for performers and dancers, audio recordings for musicians, and portfolio for visual artists. After pre-selection, the applicant may be asked for additional materials and/or online meeting.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15. 3. 2024 until midnight
The application form you can find here (or alternatively here).

Evaluation of applications and selection of participants: 31. 3. 2024
In the case of any troubles with opening, filling or sending the application, please contact us by email: production@continuo.cz

The project takes place within the zero year of the festival JIŽNÍ SVÉRÁZ / SOUTH SPECIFIC – project of the European Capital of Culture Budweis 2028. Partners: South Bohemian Theatre and REZI.dance Komařice.