ARCTIC ROBINSON / Wariot Ideal

Come conquer the freezing plains of Siberia and see the people of the North together with a Moravian goldminer, adventurer and story-teller.

Many have tried to reach the North Pole and a lot of them have returned from the Arctic frozen stiff. However, 140 year ago in Zábřeh the Czech Honza Welzl was born. He reached the North Pole on foot and settled there for thirty years. As a journeyman locksmith he walked across the Balkans, sailed around Africa and across the oceans and finally got to Siberia. And that’s where he started to think: “What if I walk through Siberia to the North Sea and see what life is like there?” This was his only preparation. He set out alone with a great determination, courage and an instinct instead of a map.

Arctic Robinson, or The Unbelievable Wanderings of Jan Eskymo Welzl is an adventure story about a quest to make one's dreams come true and is intended for both children and adults. The whole action takes place in a giant igloo. It will take you to an ice kingdom way above the Polar Circle, on the edge of the world which is called the Arctic. Only the most determined and skilful of men can survive in such severe conditions. Come to see how the people of the North hunted without all the technical conveniences of our civilization. And how a native of Zábřeh became their leader.

Jan Eskymo Welzl (1868, Zábřeh – 1948, Dawson City, Canada) was a Czech explorer, adventurer, hunter, gold panner, and a chief justice in New Siberia and a storyteller presented as a writer. (…) His book Thirty Years in the Golden North was tremendously successful even abroad, where some people suspected that Eskymo Wenzl did not exist and that the author was in fact Karel Čapek, who only wrote the foreword to the foreign edition. (Wikipedie)

We recommend the performance for children older than 6 years, smaller ones could be frightened in the big igloo.