Prague centre · Národní 20 · ~90 min with interval · no words · from about age 3

The video above is only a glimpse.

In the room, colour arrives at once — painted objects that burn against the black, bodies you can see, and bodies you cannot. Some performers step into the light. Others dress themselves out of it, so the object seems to move alone. Both belong to the same night.

A thing you have owned your whole life suddenly has a secret life of its own.

Antología is our gathering of the best: eight short worlds from more than sixty years of Black Light Theatre Srnec. Not one plot. A constellation. Music and stories by Jiří Srnec. Props created by skilled hands. Humour that needs no translation.

We will not tell you what each scene does.

The screen can tease. The stage keeps the secret.

Nonverbal — music, movement, mime. Nobody speaks on stage. You do not need Czech, or any other language.
Eight scenes since 1961.
About 90 minutes including a 15-minute interval.
117 seats at Reduta Jazz Club. Unnumbered — come when doors open.
Front rows love the faces; a few rows back, the illusion deepens.

Tonight’s dates are on Tickets.

This is the original company that named the form — and filled the houses that matter.

The same night has stood on Sadler’s Wells in London, Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris, the Cort Theatre in New York, the Tropicana in Las Vegas, Theatre Royal in Sydney, the Hebbel-Theater in Berlin, the NCPA in Beijing, Shanghai Grand Theatre, Teatro Teresa Carreño in Caracas — and many, many more. Sixty years of sold-out houses.

Antología is a time machine through the living history of this house.

One of the eight is Launderette, first played before the company even had its name. The rest you discover in the dark.

Tonight that world fits into 117 seats in Prague.

Launderette · Suitcases · Lamps · Violinist · Magician · Photographer · Fish · Horse

The house is small. The dark fills quickly.