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PQ 2019: An A+ B-Movie
I didn’t know what to expect from the Telekinetic Assault Group. The name was aggressive and the venue, Punctum in Prague’s working-class Žižkov neighborhood, was unmarked from the outside, and inside...
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PQ 2019: Puppet Masters
On the final day of the Prague Quadrennial, I decided to explore the roots of the Czech theatre tradition. I took the subway, then another subway to the end of the line, then a bus through a big-box...
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PQ 2019: Noise Music
The Rudolfinum is the main classical music performance hall in Prague. The house of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra is a grand neoclassical building sitting proudly on the banks of the Vltava. Statues...
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“Stimmen des Kiezes”: A Site-Specific Movement–Text Collage in...
In the middle of the vibrant Berlin district Friedrichshain, well-known for party tourism, hipster cafés, and flea markets, it is possible to find Zwingli Church. The historical venue – with 800 square...
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Probing Tom Stoppard on Russia: Part of The Legacy of Theater Critic and...
Tom Stoppard and André Previn around 1977-’78. Courtesy Mia Farrow. Cooper Robb, an immensely knowledgeable and prolific American theater critic, who recently passed away, left behind many articles,...
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Czech Centre London Presents: “Velvet Havel”
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Velvet revolution the Czech Centre brings to London a portrait of the first post-1989 Czech president presented as a modern-day musical in a...
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#CzechVelvet Review: “Velvet Havel” At Rich Mix
“The great funeral of Havel, a grey-haired Casanova who smoked too much,” says Uncle Miloš, with the pomaded hair and white evening suit of a 1930s matinee idol, and who steps over to awaken Havel,...
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Robots Were Dreamt up 100 Years Ago – Why Haven’t Our Fears About Them...
This is a story you will have heard before. A genius but completely mad scientist – with the backing of a ruthlessly greedy corporation – creates a sentient robot. The scientist’s intentions for the...
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“Gulliver’s Travels”: a Lesson in Satire for Children.
“The life of man to represent, And turn it all to ridicule, Wit did a puppet-show invent…”,- Anglo-Irish writer-satirist, essayist, philosopher, poet, owner of one of the sharpest feathers in the cap...
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“Leaning Church”: The Voices of a Vanished City
This is the story of the Big Bang. Not the explosion that gave birth to the universe. But an explosion in a mine in the Czech town of Karviná (Czech Silesia) near the Polish border. From that explosion...
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