Archa Theatre
Na Poříčí 26, 110 00, Prague 1
phone: +420 221 716 111
e-mail: archa@archatheatre.cz

Box Office
Phone: +420 221 716 333
Email: ticket@archatheatre.cz

Open: MON – FRI / 10am – 6pm /
on days of performances until 8pm

Performances start at 8pm, unless otherwise stated

The Backwards Play by conceptual artist Ján Mančuška is a performance that works simultaneously with two directions of action. A narrator placed in the audience tells a story in linear form emanating from the author’s text. Five dancers on the stage act out the same story, but in the opposite sequence, i.e., backwards. All action on the stage is played out backwards, movements, gestures, the unreeling of action. Both directions of the story, in which the protagonist, led by the longing to correct his own mistakes returns into the past, thanks to their mirror-like structure intersect at key points and thus appears simultaneous. Work with language, in which the author looks back to his older textual installations, is here connected with action on the stage performed by five dancers. The aspect of the dance is represented by perfectly executed backwards movements.

Director: Ján Mančuška

Featuring: Petra Hauerová, Veronika Kacianová, Lotte Nouwkens, Miroslav Kochánek, Ondřej Lipovský, Roman Zach

World premiere:
Takkelloftet, Královské divadlo Kodaň as part of the U-Turn, Kvadrienále současného umění, 6.9.2008. 

IN CZECH

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Tickets: CZK 190 / CZK 120 students and seniors
Archa.klub discount 30%
Open seating
length 45 min.

Tickets available from Archa Theatre Box Office and TICKETPRO outlets (subject to additional booking fee)