Czech Hero

Mind if I ask you something? Why are you lying?

Movement, live music, dynamics, energy, exaggeration, and a few words. The movement satire Czech Hero features a woman determined to meet those she does not understand. She repeatedly ventures out into the world of opposite values, where she’s “asking for trouble”.

I have to go and see what their garden looks like, what they say, how they live, because otherwise I will be afraid of them and won't understand them.

The production is loosely inspired by the cases and courage of journalist Ivana Svobodová whose “mission” takes her to the living room of a pensioner who wanted to save “our little country” and thus became “the first Czech terrorist”: “It’s intriguing that someone’s chopping down trees, planning to derail a train, and pretending to be a Muslim.”

Czech Hero is more concrete than dance, more abstract than drama. It draws viewers in with its fierce movement and haunting live music.

The production is fully accessible in both Czech and English.