Loops and Hoops

A puppet production about the Spartakiad (a mass sports event in the Soviet bloc), infinity and life in Czechoslovakia during the era of “normalisation” in the 1970s. A day in the life of a socialist woman flows before us on a conveyor belt (literally), evoking a sense of retro-nostalgia. Above all, however, it serves as a powerful reminder of the communist regime’s uniformity and lack of freedom. All of this is achieved almost entirely without words, through humour and the use of imaginative, detailed miniature flat puppets.