Closing editorial

Ladies and gentlemen and all fans of theatre,

This year’s SETKÁNÍ / ENCOUNTER festival is over and I still can’t believe how fast it has passed.

I have to say a huge thank you to EVERYONE who made it possible for this year’s festival to be created and run smoothly. Since preparing the online form is not a completely well-established method yet, I believe the output of the team was not the “standard” 200 percent, but 400 percent in this case! I would like to thank the creators who sent us the recordings of their work and thus provided us with a real theatrical experience, that’s going to be impossible to see in the form of a live theatrical performance and will also be banned by the government due to Covid-19 for some time now. Thanks to all the musicians we could make every festival evening a bit more pleasant and feel the party atmosphere right in our living rooms. Last but not least, thank you, dear audience. Without you, the Encounter festival would not have been as it was. I’m grateful that you found the time to “go” and observe the culture, even if only through your computer screen. THANK YOU!

We have no other choice but let ourselves be carried away by the wave of memories from this year and look forward to everything that the next one will bring us. 😊

Kristýna Blahynka