The Droeshout Portrait: How Shakespeare Is Born?
For children from 12 years
Non-verbal
The performance will be followed by a lecturer programme
ticketsPossibility to obtain a quantity discount of -25%.
Regular NdB discounts can be applied to tickets.
The discount for seniors is 30%.
The discount for disabled persons and students is 50%.
Discounts are not to be combined.
After the performance there is a lecturer programme for schools on stage. By appointment only.
At the beginning, there was a folio, and a portrait. The portrait of Droeshout. And next? The Shakespeare phenomenon. It’s late night. William Shakespeare, who has just dipped his quill in ink, is about to write his next play. Perhaps Hamlet? That’s the way it must have happened… or not? Shakespeare might not have been sitting at his table but on the bank of the Thames, or in a friend’s garden… And what if he hadn’t even quit Stratford, and all the works attributed to him were written by other authors? Edward de Vere? The Queen? Or a swan?
Students of the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts, guided by Patrick Sims, create a puppet show inspired by the greatest personality of the world’s drama theatre, and by the most famous painting whose ambiguity opens the way for our imagination.
The performance was coproduced by TWB, the French ensemble Les Antliaclastes, the Czech Centre Paris and the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts.
Direction, puppets, music, supervision: Patrick Sims
Dramaturgical supervision: Barbara Gregorová
Pedagogical supervision: Pavel Borák, Petra Vodičková, Michal Zetel
Coproduction project manager: Martina Měšťanová
Light and sound design: Petr Kholl
Production: Barbora Šíblová
Stage design: Kristina Komárková, Marie Štěpánová, Emma Žežulová a kolektiv
Dramaturgy: Helena Gricová, Sára Matůšová, Barbora Šíblová, Emma Žežulová
Photo, video: Barbora Bachanová
Screening: Kristina Komárková
Cast: Helena Gricová, Kristina Komárková, Sára Matůšová, Barbora Šíblová, Marie Štěpánová, Emma Žežulová