Multiple times:
June 8, 2025, 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM
June 8, 2025, 7:00 PM - 7:45 PM
Time: 35 minutes
Language: Wordless
Post show demonstration of puppetry techniques and history
Appropriate for children (7+) and adults
A visual puppet theatre production from a series of dark adaptations of K. J. Erben's fairytales Hair - Eyes - Death. A king who really liked to chase game. After a series of evil deeds, he longed to chase the game forever. Shadows, live sounds on quills and chimes in the tradition of family puppet theaters.
From Hura Collective
Hza Bažant and Leona Bažant Telínová are two of the founding members of the Hura Collective. The Hura Collective is a lively association of artists that provides protection for the activities of its members. The activities of the Hura Kolektiv are exhibitions, theatre productions and publications. www.hura.cz
Directing, set, puppets, music: Hza Bažant
Dramaturgy: Leona Bažant Telínová
Cast: Hza Bažant and Leona Bažant Telínová
With the Czech Center
ABOUT:
HZA BAŽANT (Doc. MgA Jan Bažant Ph.D.) * 1979 in Prague, Stage designer, Puppeteer, Graphic designer, Comic author and associated professor at KALD DAMU.
The scope of his work combines theatre, street performance, comics and authorial graphic techniques, especially screen printing. He studied at the DAMU in Prague, and completed internships at Academy of fine atrs in Prague and Universitat der Künste (UDK) in Berlin. He has led numerous workshops in the Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain and Taiwan. Since 2010 he has been teaching at Department of Alternative and puppet theatre at Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, since 2019 as the head of the KALD Scenography Cabinet. His book Nusle was awarded in the Most Beautiful Czech Books 2015 competition for illustrations. With his graphic work Along the Stream, he won the 2016 Graphic Artist of the Year award for serigraphy. For his scenography of the performance for the Naive Theatre Liberec, Cabinet of Miracles or Orbis Pictus, he won the 2020 Theatre Critics Award in the category of scenography. In addition to a number of art books and comics stories, in 2022 he published a book Technology, Puppets, Magic. www.hzabazant.com
MgA LEONA BAZANT TELINOVA (TELONA) * 1979 in Cheb, lives and works in Prague. Her staged photographs are created in a magical studio in the baroque villa Koulka, which she shares with her husband, a stage designer and puppeteer. The environment of the villa, surrounded by wild gardens, as well as the many strange and disparate materials for making puppets all around, inspire the artist to create narrative images with a mysterious atmosphere. In 2009 she studied photography in Pavel Baňka's atelier, at the Faculty of Art and Design, UJEP in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. In the field of photography she is mainly engaged in exhibition activities. Since 2021 she has been teaching photography. leonatelinova.cz
ABOUT THE 2025 REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH INTERNATIONAL THEATER FESTIVAL
Rehearsal for Truth International Theater Festival, honoring Václav Havel, is a showcase of contemporary European theater organized each year in New York City. Conceived in 2017 as a shared endeavor of the Václav Havel Center (VHC) and Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association (BBLA), the festival honors the legacy of Czech playwright, dissident and political thinker Vaclav Havel.
Each edition of Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival addresses current sociopolitical trends in Central and Eastern Europe, offering New York audiences a unique opportunity to witness the region’s theatrical zeitgeist.
The program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. The festival is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.