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PRESS RELEASE / WHAT’S IMPORTANT IS TO HAVE A PLAN B!

11.05. 2016

A Czech-Hungarian collaborative theater project by Halka Třešňáková and László Fülöp. At 8pm on Sunday 22 May, the Alfred ve dvoře Theatre will present the premiere of Plan B, a new performance by Hungarian choreographer and performer László Fülöp’s Timothy and the Things theatre group, in collaboration with one of the Czech independent scene’s most well-known performers Halka Třešňáková. Both artists share a knack for inventiveness onstage, subversion, and ironic detachment. The theme? Everything and anything within the codename “plan B” – from attempts at escaping reality to a study of what could really make us happy. Plan B combines the playfulness of physical theater with the unpredictability of contemporary performance art: something always happens other than what you expect.

Plan B was originally just a working title. Soon, however, the impossibility of grasping this phenomenon – the many backup plans by which we reassure ourselves that we have things under control even though the truth usually lies somewhere else – became the artistic team’s main focus. The words they use to describe their new performance reveal their penchant for paradox: “Always be realistically fictional. Unless you can be fictionally real… But always have a plan B.” Halka and László remind us conspiratively.

Halka Třešňáková has participated in numerous international projects, and also performs with the National Theatre in Prague. She can currently be seen in Vosto5’s Brass Band (directed by Jiří Havelka) and in director Miroslav Bambušek’s The Wasteland. She teaches at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) in Prague.

László Fülöp is an outstanding Hungarian choreographer, performer and teacher active on the independent European theatre scene, primarily in the area of contemporary physical theatre and dance. The main subject of his performances is humans in their natural wholeness, free of ideologies or prejudices, on a simple, pure, and personal level. His works show people in their social and communicative roles, and explore the internal processes that – even unconsciously – influence and guide our actions and decisions.

Premiere: 22. 5. / 20.00, Alfred ve dvoře
Repeat performances: 26. 5. / 20.00, Alfred ve dvoře