A Girl on a Trampoline
WITH ENGLISH SUPERTITLES
The play A Girl on the Trampoline is inspired by the difficult life of Zdena Salivarová and Josef Škvorecký, two exceptional novelists and translators, while Zdena Salivarová then lived somewhat unfairly in the shadow of her husband. The play looks at their specific work and difficult life in communist Czechoslovakia and subsequently in emigration in Toronto, Canada.
In 1971, the couple founded the exile publishing house ’68 Publishers, about which their friend Milan Kundera declared that "without it, serious printed Czech literature would cease to exist". The publishing house mainly published Czech books, which were not allowed to be published in our country during the totalitarian regime. They published a total of 277 titles (among others: Havel, Kundera, Blatný, Mandlová, Diviš, Hrabal, Vaculík, Kryl and others...). Their publishing house had a moral and aesthetic value, and Czech literature did not lose its continuity thanks to it.
With this title, Švanda Theater continues the dramaturgical line of author's texts, the creation of which was inspired by exceptional personalities of our history, about whom undeservedly little is known. The previous production by the author Pavel Jurda Rags, bones, skins, which was also directed by Martin Františák won The Mark Ravenhill Award in 2019.
In our history, we can trace a handful of "warriors", lighthouse keepers, pilgrims who leave the country and thus create conditions elsewhere for saving and maintaining basic human and cultural values. And that is the story of Zdena Salivarová and Josef Škvorecký.
Kindly note that there are some vulgar expressions used in the performance.
CHARACTERS AND CAST
ZDENA SALIVAROVÁ: Bohdana Pavlíková
JOSEF ŠKVORECKÝ: Luboš Veselý
BLUEBEARD, RADIO, OCCUPANT: Matěj Anděl
ADINA MANDLOVÁ, CZECHO-AMERICAN WOMAN, IVANKA: Barbora Křupková
IVAN DIVIŠ: Jan Mansfeld
GIRL, COMRADE, IVAN BLATNÝ: Katarína Mišejková/Barbora Blažková
OCCUPPANTS: Albert Hrubý/Jiří Bobysut/Petr Vaněk/Alex Kasperov
PRODUCTION TEAM
DIRECTOR: Martin Františák
STAGE ADJUSTMENT: Martin Františák and Johana Součková Němcová
DRAMATURGY: Johana Součková Němcová
STAGE DESIGN AND COSTUMES: Eva Zezula
MUSIC: Ivan Acher
CHOREOGRAPHY: Zoja Mikotová
VIDEO PROJECTION "lanterna magika": František Pecháček
PRODUCTION: Tereza Marková
STAGE MANAGER: Barbora Soukupová Osvaldová
Shoah
Pankrac '45
Rags, Bones, Skins
A Girl on a Trampoline
