Editorial

Dear audience and theater enthusiasts,

Welcome to this years’ festival SETKÁNÍ/ENCOUNTER!!! 

Even though the global pandemic did not allow us to carry out the last years’ rendition of the festival, in this academic year, the festival team was not discouraged by the governmental regulations and thought up an alternative, which in the months to come, will become a common form of presenting theatrical and musical productions, not only by the students of our faculty.

And so, the 31st year of the festival beckons, while having quite a different form from its predecessors.

The entirety of the festival will take place on several online platforms, of which you will be thoroughly informed through our websites or through our social media. We are aware that the main message of the festival will be left unfulfilled – that being Encounters. The personal contact between one another, the debates during the breaks between performances, and the breaks for coffee and cigarettes. Getting acquainted with students from other schools. Or to just feel like a spectator of a real live theater performance. 

But let us also point out the positive, this form presented to us – that even a person which is not currently in Brno, can attend the festival… And maybe thanks to that, there will be so much more of us in the future years. 😊

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I wish you all to enjoy the festival from the comfort of your home and through your computer screens. Maybe with a glass of pleasant liquor and in a robe, you didn’t have the occasion to wear for over a year. Simply, make it nice! And in a year, let us hope that we will meet together on the premises of the Theater Faculty.

And now there’s nothing left to say but: SETKÁNÍ/ENCOUNTER 2021 can commence!!!

Kristýna Blahynka

Editor-in-chef