Iris

Premier: 24.1.2024

Audience: Adults, 15+

Length:  75 minutes,

Performance for indoor. The performance is conceived as a cabaret seated.

Awards

  • Divadelní noviny for a female performance regardless of genre 2024

With all modesty, it seems that I have already gotten out of the biggest cesspool of my life.

At the age of ten, we didn't know words like microwave and coffee maker. Sometimes up to thirteen of us lived in seventy-five square meters. Relations? What do you mean?

I have the right to be healthy. I'm trying to believe that I'm worth something and that it makes sense to get up every day. I need your approval. A person wants to kill himself and has just enough ibuprofen at home. Will I ever get out of this mud? I couldn't stand myself. Help is a bit too much. Enough! I love you like a bottle. I can deal with the emotions on stage, I have them stored up. Would you rather hear a joke? Today, my biggest enemy is only myself.

"The Invisible series about invisible women was created in 2020 out of a personal desire to make visible the autobiographical stories of women, exceptional artists who, for various reasons, disappeared from the spotlight or never got into it. Whether due to political events, age, the involuntary end of a career or hereditary burden, these artists created and continue to create in spite of themselves. The first part belongs to Hana Frejková, whose father was executed in the Slánský trials, and Frejková, now seventy-eight years old, plays out and sings her own story. The second part is about the prima ballerina Barbora Vašká Kaufmannová and her completely voluntary end of her career and the emptiness after it. And the third part IRIS  is dedicated to the actress Iris Kristeková, who despite transgenerational traumas and an extreme social situation was able to follow her dream and pass on her strength. The goal of the project is destigmatization and an empathetic approach to those who have experienced something similar, suggesting ways out and small personal victories. After the experience with Ballets and the previous works of Invisible, I believe that art has the power to heal. In it, the viewer safely relives his own unregulated psychic contents, whether consciously or unconsciously," says Miřenka Čechová

Credits

CONCEPT: Iris Kristeková, Miřenka Čechová

DIRECTION: Miřenka Čechová

PERFORMED BY: Iris Kristeková

MUSIC: Martin Tvrdý

LIGHT DESIGN: Filip Horn

COSTUMS: Petra Vlachynská 

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