Krepsko: Fragile, polish tango for three

Two performances in one evening by the Krepsko theatre company. After a long time and many performances presented abroad, the productions of "Fragile" and "polish tango for three" will be presented at Archa in one evening. While "polish tango for three" is a mixture of Russian roulette, polish tango and Czech-Finish humour, "Fragile" is a form of delicate visual theatre in which the theatre space is understood as a co-actor.

FRAGILE

Laura from Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie under a magnifying glass. In silence she introduces us to her intimate and vulnerable environment in which the slightest movement becomes an astronomical event.

Through her presence we sink deeper into the silent but joyful solitude. FRAGILE is a visual play in which the theatre space itself is perceived as a performer. With soft lighting, and almost obsessive attention to gesture, we break along with the heroine into shards of glass that will need to be reassembled.

“When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”  Tennessee Williams

Created by: K R E P S K O and Darinka Giljanović
Concept: Darinka Giljanović, Linnea Happonen, Petr Lorenc
Director: Linnea Happonen
Performed by: Linnea Happonen
Light-design: Petr Lorenc
Music: Luis Fiestas
Special guest: Jiří Zeman

Premiered in December 2003

(This show travelled to Belarus, Finland, France, Iceland, Germany, Pakistan, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and the Czech Republic.)

Length: approx. 45 minutes


polish tango for three

A black & white play about the secrets of dangerous board games

Performed by: Linnea Happonen, Veronika Švábová and Jiří Zeman

We all know (or should know) that playing with electricity is fascinating and dangerous at the same time. Russian roulette, Polish and Czech tango and Finnish humour form the basis for a small party with a bizarre board game and a bottle of “wodka”.

Length: approx. 15 minutes