Brel – Vysotsky – Kryl /Solo for Three/

Tha National Theatre

Premiere: May 5, 2007

Music: Jacques Brel / Vladimir Vysotsky / Karel Kryl
Choreography: Petr Zuska
Director: Petr Zuska
Stage design: Jan Dušek
Costumes: Lucie Loosová

Dancers: Alexandre Katsapov / Michal Štípa / Zuzana Susová / Tereza Podařilová / Nikola Márová / Klára Kutilová / Adéla Pollertová / Pavla Sýkorová / Zuzana Šimáková / Michaela Wenzelová / Hana Turečková / Natálie Benyovszká / Marta Drastíková / Jiří Kodym / Viktor Konvalinka / Radek Vrátil / Matěj Urban / Jiří Urban / Michal Jurisa / Petr Strnad / Klára Jelínková / Ivana Mikešová / Sylva Nečasová / Pavla Hrubešová / Tereza Ulrichová / Žofie Demková / Lenka Šnellerová / Edita Raušerová / Ivanna Illyenko / Karolína Pogatsová / Jade Clayton / Tereza Kučerová / Nela Čelišová / Nicole Delacretaz / Camille Erskine / Alexej Afanassiev / Oleksandr Kysil / Tomáš Kopecký / Tomáš Rychetský / Ondřej Novotný / Mattia Mantellato / Radovan Hrbek / Jiří Waňka / Tomáš Červinka / Karel Audy / Zdenek Horváth / Radim Kafka / Jonáš Dolník / Magdalena Matějková / Kristýna Němečková / Aya Watanabe / Pavla Mráziková / Martina Vrátilová / Radka Příhodová / Mário Bakuš / Adam Zvonař

This piece of dance theatre with the subheading “Solo for Three” is a ravishing performance inspired by the lives and songs of three singer-poets of the 1960s and 1970s – Jacques Brel, Vladimir Vysotsky and Karel Kryl. Three singing poets, three great artists, three human beings. Three different cultures, personalities, fates. Although using different languages, musical utterances and poetry of texts, there is much more that unites them than divides them. Today, classics who did not want to become classics, as if speaking a similar language. Using words that spring from the depths of the bosom and are as truthful as only the truth can be. Words relentlessly rebelling against violence, philistinism and betrayal, assiduously accentuating feeling, tenderness and love. Three uncompromising fighters for humanity, with a capital “H”.

Running time: 2 hours and 10 min.