!O! / Family Therapy (2018)

A reflective piece of devised theater one and half years in the making that explores Reason and Unreason as ways of attaining a different understanding of reality.

!O! / Family Therapy (2018)

About the performance

Madness? Just the ultimate freedom.

We often look at mental illness as a reaction to social pressure in a performance-oriented age where efforts to cloister ourselves in virtual worlds, escape our surroundings and push our problems from our consciousness only generate psycho-spiritual stress. But insanity can also be viewed from another perspective. As a parallel world operating under different principles, a space of originality, imagination and ultimate freedom.

  • Performers: Sabina Bočková, Lukáš Bláha, Viktor Černický, Darja Hlinková, Vojtěch Hříbek, Inga Mikshina, Johana Pocková, Simona Rozložníková, Eva Stará
  • Concept: Miřenka Čechová
  • Directed by: Miřenka Čechová, Dominika Špalková
  • Dramaturgy: Dominika Špalková
  • Set design: Vendula Bělochová, Eva Chudomelová, Eva Matoušová, Barbora Johanson
  • Music: Matouš Hekela
  • Light design: David Prokopič, Daniel Kozlík
  • Production: Jakub Urban

Performance supported by: Ministry of Culture of the CR, Capital City of Prague, Divadlo DRAK and the International Institute of Figurative Theater, Divadlo Continuo/Plum Yard.


Premiere: 2. 10. 2018 - Pragovka

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Media reviews

Neopominutelný genius loci odcizeného prostředí podtrhuje syrovost, drásavost i smířlivost bizarního „rodinného terapeutické sezení“. […] Tantehorse se v něm zadařilo vytvořit scénicky hutnou metaforu o šílenství jako určitém módu uvažování a umělecké svobody.
Lucie Dercsényiová, Taneční aktuality

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