My Fatherland
The performance features intense strobe lights and loud music.
Suitable for children ages 6 and up.
Through six symphonic poems, we explore the Bohemian landscape and history as a map of memories and present moments. We journey together and individually, searching for answers to many questions: How has the Vyšehrad Castle changed? And what of it still remains within us? How does the Vltava River sound today? Is it quiet, loud, murky, or limpid? Is the wildness and cruelty of Šárka toward men something we now find amusing, or is it still relevant? Where have Bohemia’s meadows and groves gone? How do nature and the landscape touch our lives? What does Tábor mean to us – faith, struggle, or an incessant quest for courage? And what is the Blaník Mountain to us? Do we believe that someone will come to save us when things take a turn for the worst? Is it hope, or rather an illusion? This production is the historically first theatrical, scenic, dance and puppet rendition of Czechia’s national musical treasure.
The production was created in co-production with the Czech Philharmonic, DEKKADANCERS, the Forman Brothers Theatre, and Jatka78, and follows the successful staging of The Jungle Book, which ran at Azyl78 from 2022 to 2024.
Accompanying My Country with their talent will be dancers, actors, puppeteers, and true theatrical “patriots.” You can look forward to members of the dance ensembles DEKKADANCERS and Holektiv, musicians from the Czech Philharmonic, and the beloved improvisational group Us boys who go out together.
Lukas Blaha Bliss, Patrik Čermák, Florian Garcia, Josef Bobeš Havelka, Albert Kaše, Andrej Lyga, Natalia Metodijeva, Šimon Pliska, Eva Stará, Dora Sulženko Hoštová, Nela Štarková, Adriana Štefaňáková, Ondřej Vinklát, Andrea Vykysalá, Václav Wortner
Oboe – Vladislav Borovka, Jana Brožková, Jiří Zelba
Clarinet – Jan Brabec, Jan Mach, Marek Pavíček, Petr Sinkule
Basson – Tomáš Františ, Martina Homolková, Jaroslav Kubita
French horn – Kateřina Javůrková, Mikuláš Koska, Hana Sapáková, Jan Vobořil
Trumpet – Walter Hofbauer, Stanislav Masaryk, Marek Vajo
Trombone – Lukáš Besuch, Robert Kozánek, Lukáš Moťka, Bohumil Tůma
Tuba – Jakub Chmelař, Jakub Maňák, Václav Steklý
Timpani, percussion – Miroslav Kejmar, Pavel Polívka
Piano – Andrea Mottlová, Karolina Pancernaite
Accordion / banjo / ocarina – Tomáš Görtler, Zdeněk Zelba
1st violin – Marie Dvorská, Viktor Mazáček, Helena Skopová
2nd violine – Milena Kolářová, Filip Kubita, Vítězslav Ochman, Markéta Vokáčová
Viola – Pavel Ciprys, Jiří Poslední, Jan ŠimonCelloJan Holeňa, Jan Keller, Marek Novák
Double bass – Tomáš Karpíšek, Roman Koudelka
Bedřich Smetana
Marko Ivanović
Matěj Forman
Janek Jirků
Štěpán Pechar
Andrea Sodomková
Petr Pasler, Tereza Komárková, Josef Sodomka, Jitka Barnetová, Renata a Martin Lhotákovi
Barbora Zichová, Veronika Doutlíková, Matěj Forman
Jana Lábrová, Čahoun Míra Vosecký, Šárka Sedláková, Marek Rejent, Romana Slavíčková, Marie Juklíková, Antonie Hlavicová, Krištof Pochman, Daniela Paseková, Ema Sodomková
Magdalena Rutová
Štěpán Kubišta
Tereza Baschová
Jiří Cmunt
Vojtěch Kočí
Romana Stachovičová
Petr Pasler
Jan Středa, Juraj Mišejka
Jan Dörner, Lukáš Brinda
Roman Dobeš
Anna Homola
Veronika Blažejovská, Adéla Hájková, Kateřina Klára Plašilová
Jitka Barnetová
Lenka Čápová
Zuzana Hošková
Tereza Bártová
Anna Reisigová
Magdalena Rutová (illustrations), Jan Čumlivski (typography)
Irena Vodáková, Jana Lábrová, Karolína Malá, Michael Amico
Kateřina Husičková
Bára Zemanová
Adéla Bartáková, Bára Linková
