About the School
The Janáček Academy of Performing Arts was founded in 1947 and is a public university providing accredited bachelors’, masters’, and doctoral degrees in the performing arts. The Faculties of Music and Theater support the growth of talented personalities, create a suitable artistic background for them, and prepare them for their professional artistic career. All study programs have undergone a new accreditation process in recent years.
At present, more than 350 students study at the Faculty of Theater, and in the last thirty years more than a thousand graduates have been sent out into the world, many of whom have become important representatives of Czech and European artistic and social life.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Is love truly conditioned by beauty?
Crimp’s Cyrano de Bergerac speaks to the spectator using the language of generational theater in the 21st century. Furthermore, it asks questions about love, beauty, and self-acceptance. This play is not only about self-examination, about searching for an ideal, or acknowledging our feelings, but it is about a disrupted society balanced on a razor’s edge as well. It is also about blindfolded people and an awakening which comes at a disastrous time. Is the poet worthy of being killed by words?
Author: Edmond Rostand, Martin Crimp
Translation: Ester Žantovská
Director: Petr Smyczek
Dramaturgy: Eva Kolomazníková
Stage design: Helena Heinrichová
Music: Petr Wajsar, Čeněk Vaculík
Light design: Jan Smutný
Sound: Ondřej Bulva
Production: Dominika Kuntzmannová
Photo: Kundračik Hugo Krištof, Eva Kolomazníková, Barbora Bachanová
Cast:
Milana Gorská
Tereza Havránková
Andrea Hodíková
Eliška Jechová
Martin Mihál
Kateřina Kornhäuserová
Adam Kořán
Tomáš Slabiňák
Martin Urbaník
Jan Valeš
Karolína Vaňková
