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KALD DAMU:
Garden of Labour
‘Today one works to clean, today one cleans to work. Today one plays to to play. Today Hamlet is played.’
The production is an allegory of late capitalism, in which the stagehands build a garden that serves as the setting for a tragic lie. Garden of Labor thematizes the ethics of work, questioning the value of never-ending overproduction and the invisible labor that supports it. Thus, a group of seven 'coolies' meet on stage with the common goal of building a garden – Garden of Labour. But they each approach their work in their own distinctive way, one approaching the task with evasiveness, the other with obsessive diligence. Thus we see seven distinct commentaries pointing to the absurdity of work.
Authors: Domen Šuman, Alžběta Nováková, William Shakespear et al.
Domen Šuman
Set design by Jasmine Molinari
Alžběta Nováková and Tinka Avramova
Music by Matěj Šíma
Cast:
Tinka Avramova
Michaela Čajkovičová
Ema Lovecká
Ana Nezmah
Richard Janca
Zbyněk Rohlík
Martin Mlčouch
produced by Barbora Maksymovová, Kristýna Votavová and Terka Vlčková
pedagogical guidance: MgA. Robert Smolík, Ing. MgA. Branislav Mazúch and doc. MgA. Sodja Zupanc-Lotker, Ph.D.
DISK, KALD DAMU
The Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre is dedicated to exploring the very essence of what we call theatre. How can theatre be perceived? What social function can it perform today? Where can it go and evolve? Where are its theatres?
On the one hand, the study at KALD is based on the many years of pedagogical experience of a puppetry-oriented university; on the other hand, it draws on tendencies that have their roots in the theatrical avant-garde and the "open theatre" movement. The theatre is not something absolutely known, it is a space for the constantly necessary definition of the self. "If theatre is to be alive, it must be a question rather than a proven artistic genre," says Branislav Mazúch, head of the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre at DAMU.