Pantomima Alfreda Jarryho

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The theater ensemble Pantomima Alfreda Jarryho , also known as PAJ , the “most original pantomime ensemble that the Czech scene knew up to then”, was founded in Prague in 1966 and was dissolved in 1972 by the censorship authorities of Czechoslovakia .

history

The ensemble was founded in 1966 by Boris Hybner and Ctibor Turba , initially under the name Pantomimická skupina A. Jarryho (A. Jarry's pantomime group). Hardly two years earlier, Hybner had seen Jan Grossman's production of “ King Ubu ” by Alfred Jarry in Divadlo Na zábradlí , where he was working at the time , which made a great impression on him. The second person on whom both orientated themselves was the French surrealist playwright Antonin Artaud (who ran the Théâtre Alfred Jarry in Paris ). After a few improvised appearances, PAJ was invited to the first “Amateur Pantomime Festival” in Litvínov in mid-October 1966 . The ensemble was celebrated as a big surprise and won all awards. Hybner and Turba met their future close colleague Richard Rýda here . Because of this success, they were invited to participate in the world exhibition Expo 67 in Montreal as part of the program of the Prague avant-garde theater Laterna Magika , where they spent a few months.

In December 1968 the premiere of the new play Harakiri took place in Prague , created under the impressions of the invasion of the armies of the Warsaw Pact into Czechoslovakia and the newly created situation of an increasing - also artistic - lack of freedom, which it reflected. In 1969 PAJ was given the opportunity to perform permanently in the Reduta theater . In September the first “International Pantomime Festival” was held in Prague, opened by Marcel Marceau and where PAJ was celebrated, similar to the second year of the festival in 1971. These successes enabled the ensemble to perform more and more abroad, for example in Germany, Sweden, Italy, Great Britain, Ireland and elsewhere.

In the spring of 1972, the Pantomima Alfreda Jarryho was officially dissolved as an ensemble by the state cultural authorities, and its members performed on other stages or abroad.

Employees at PAJ

  • Boris Hybner (* 1941)
  • Ctibor Turba (* 1944)
  • Richard Rýda (* 1940)
  • Josef Platz (* 1937)
  • Boleslav Polívka (* 1949)
  • Jan V. Kratochvíl (* 1940)
  • Jiří Sopko (* 1942)
  • Jiří Stivín (* 1942)
  • Andrej Krob (* 1938)
  • Prokop Voskovec jr. (* 1942; † 2011)
  • Jiřina Třebická (* 1930; † 2005)
  • Libor Fára (1925 - 1988)
  • Pavel Vaněk (?)
  • Rudolf Papežík (* 1944)

Productions

  • Nezabiješ úplně bližního svého aneb Traumata francouzského koloniálního důstojníka, 1966
  • Harakiri, 1968
  • Idioti, 1970
  • Udělej mu to zprava aneb Turba tacet 1970
  • PAR 3441, 1971 (in Reduta, Prague; 1977 French version in Paris, in a different line-up)

Film productions

  • Záznam o posledních chvílích komické dvojice Clow & Hamm pořízený v roce čtyřicátého výročí prvního zvukového filmu, short film, 1969
  • Jak čistit lokomotivu, 1971
  • Hospoda u tří havranů (The Three Crows Pub), 1972 in Dublin

swell

  • Karolina Plicková, Pantomima Alfreda Jarryho (a thesis awarded by the Teatrologická společnost [Theatrological Society] at the Charles University in Prague, Philosophical Faculty), online at: is.cuni.cz / ...
  • Karolina Plicková, Pantomima spáchala Harakiri , in: Divadelní noviny 21/2009, online at: host.divadlo.cz/

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karolina Plicková, Pantomima Alfreda Jarryho (in the introduction), online at: is.cuni.cz / ...