LANDSCAPE WITH WAREHOUSES It is end of the year in the West Bohemian borderlands. The glow of logistics halls and the melancholic magic of Advent attract lonely souls. The living and the dead gather together in the scarred landscape outside the workers’ dormitories. They settle scores from the past, dream of a better future and unearth their secrets, and everyone suffers from insomnia. The contemporary play by Cheb native Marie Nováková is a portrait of a landscape that has been deeply scarred by its modern history. It is set in a place that has been treated as a “strategic area”, not a community, for the last hundred years, and people have died here far from their homes. Special encounters occur at night. A reunion of former border guards is disrupted by an uninvited guest from the past, a retired prostitute talks to Bashkir warriors, and a Polish warehouse worker confides in a Sudeten German woman.
I want to follow the owls in their flight to the church tower.
I want to send chills down the spines of those who have tormented me.
I want to stop! Take me in!
I want to stop! I want to stop for good!
Stop me!
TYGR V TÍSNI is an independent theatre company that explores themes rooted in the past and present of diverse regions. It undertakes artistic excursions to selected sites, involving the community and local institutions in the research and creative process, thus identifying socially relevant themes with dramatic potential as well as peculiar spaces. The ensemble brings new life there through theatre stemming from the genius loci. Since its establishment in 2010, the company’s dramaturgy has explored the foundations of contemporary European society through the study of modern history and its influence on the current shape of the world, and through the search for personalities and stories on the margins of social interest. Director Ivo Kristián Kubák, dramaturge and author Marie Nováková and director Zuzana Burianová lead the group.
