Divadlo na zábradlí

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The theater on the railing

The Divadlo Na zábradlí (German Theater am Geländer ) is a theater in Prague ( Czech Republic ) not far from Charles Bridge , which is one of the well-known Czech cabaret theaters and became known, among other things, through the collaboration of the playwright and later President Václav Havel .

history

The founders were Helena Philippová , Ivan Vyskočil , Jiří Suchý and Vladimír Vodička . The name comes from a small alley that leads from Anna's Market Square (Anenské náměstí) to the bank of the Vltava . The first performance was on December 9, 1958, the musical performance Kdyby tisíc klarinetů (If a thousand clarinets). On March 3, 1959, the actors Ladislav Fialka joined with his pantomime group. Drama and pantomime existed side by side until Josef Fialka's death in 1991.

Early sixties, when the director in January Grossman , scenographer Libor Fára and for setting appropriate dramaturge and playwright Vaclav Havel added stumbled, began the development of the theater Czech theater of the absurd . The pieces performed at that time included by Havel: Zahradní slavnost, Vyrozumění (The Garden Festival, Understanding), by Alfred Jarry : Král Ubu ( King Ubu ) and by Franz Kafka : Proces ( The Trial ). The theater also gained recognition abroad; nevertheless, in 1968 Jan Grossman and Václav Havel had to leave the theater.

In the seventies and eighties, the theater was a refuge of some film directors of the new Czech wave , where the film work was denied. It was above all Evald Schorm who has realized some famous productions since 1976 ( William Shakespeare : Hamlet and Macbeth ; Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski : The Karamazov Brothers ; Claude Confortès : Marathon).

In 1989 Jan Grossman returned to the theater, first as a director and later as director. After his death in 1993, the director Doubravka Svobodová and the artistic director Petr Lébl took over the management of the theater. At that time Lébl was one of the most talented directors of the independent imagination , who provoked with his interpretations ( Jean Genet : Služky (The Servants); Ladislav Stroupežnický : Naši furianti (Our Stutzer), Nikolaj Gogol : The Auditor , Anton Pavlovich Chekhov : The Seagull, Ivanov, Uncle Vanya). After his death in 1999, the new artistic direction under the director JA Pitínský and the actor, director Jiří Ornest and the dramaturge Ivana Slámová continued the unorthodox line of contemporary theater. Were listed Thomas Bernhard : Ritter, Dene, Voss; Friedrich Schiller : Cabal and Love ; David Harrower : Nože ve slepicích (original title: Knives in Hens ). In 2003 the triumvirate was followed by the artistic director Ivana Slámová and the director and playwright Jiří Pokorný . The repertoire included Jean-Claude Carrière : The Terrace ; George Tabori : The Ballad of the Wienerschnitzel ; Gabriela Preissová : Gazdina roba.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 13.2 ″  N , 14 ° 24 ′ 55.1 ″  E