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Folk puppeteers play: DON ŠAJN /DON JUAN/

Adaptation: J.V.Dvořák, P.Vašíček, stage direction, stage design and puppets: T.Dvořák, music: J.Koptík

Cast: P.Borovský, M.Bartůšek, V.Sosna (in German version + T.Froyda as a guest). Musicians: J.Koptík, V.Čada

Various versions of a Spanish legend of Don Juan have been in repertoire of all the Czech puppeteer families since the 18 th century. We offer you a condensed, 25 - minute abbreviated staging of one of them performed by 3 actors and the original „surrealistic“ puppets designed and made by T.Dvořák, the stage director. The play, first night of which was successfully presented on the tour in Italy, can be performed in the open air, in castles etc.

Premiere: July 2001 in San Michele all´Adige in Italy.

Meant for the basic school pupils of 3 rd to 7 th class

Folk puppeteers play: JOHANES DOKTOR FAUST /JOHANES DOCTOR FAUSTUS/

Scenario (using texts by folk puppeteers ): P.Vašíček, stage direction, stage design and puppets: T.Dvořák, music: J.Koptík

Cast: P.Borovský, M.Bartůšek, V Sosna (in German version + T.Froyda as a guest). Musicians: J.Koptík, V.Čada

„Masterpiece“ of most folk puppeteers, whose approach to the classical topic about the learned man who sells his soul to the devil and who finally ends in hell , is very distinctive and original. In this condensed version fragments of the texts by Josefa Pek, Tomáš Dubský, Antonín Lagron and František Maizner are used. T.Dvořák´s original puppets made from various objects dominate the performance again.

Premiere: January 8, 2005

Meant for the basic school pupils from 3rd class, secondary school students and adults.

Note: Both plays has been successfully presented in Germany, France, Italy and Japan and they can also be performed in a German version or with the commentary in German, French, Italian and Japanese.