The Little Theatre

8. 6. 2024 - 1. 9. 2024

This is a depiction of the great history of a small nation that has had to fight for its land so many times that even greater nations would have soon given up preferring to be hit by a ball mace.
We invite you to set off with us on an expedition through Czech history full of heroic deeds and incredible inventions, the stolen national confidence and a truly huge heap of dead Habsburgs.
 

6+

Why do we celebrate Christmas? Because it is the b-day of Baby Jesus!
A restored premiere of Baby Jesus’ legendary party accompanied by the Jesus Christ Superband.
A Christmas party where water turns into wine, people walk on water, and walk on water turned into wine. Admission for all from the age of 6.
Attention! Limited number of reruns!

For children in the age range of 3-18 months  accompanied by their families (0-100 years).
A journey into the new world of music and fantasy in which children and adults meet with actors, singers and musicians, and all of them together set off for their first small / great adventures. Welcome to a World in which there are no limitations and where you may touch everything. Who knows whether you will discover if your child is a genius? But in any case, you can expect a once-in-a-lifetime experience for all the senses in a safe and inviting environment.

Although this original opera for the extremely young and their adult companions has found authorial inspiration in similar projects elsewhere in the world, for instance Scandinavia, it is actually based on our own musical and theatrical roots. This playful opera was created by one of our most successful composers of the younger generations Lukáš Sommer, who comes from Dobrá Voda near České Budějovice, and the screen writer and director is Jiří Ondra. Both authors are well experienced in creating works for children. In the studio at Na Půdě (In the Loft), stage designer Jana Hauskrechtová has used movable objects to create a fantasy world full of colours, shapes, light and fragrances (the performance will also include aromatherapy) that the children discover together with the adults accompanying them. There is no longer the classic division between stage and auditorium, but one joint area in which the spectators are included in the performance based on the principles of the “immersive theatre”. The production also involves the actors of the Small Theatre.

Little Red Riding Hood? Hansel and Gretel? Otesánek? Aladdin? Alibaba and the Forty Thieves? Will all of them fit into our car? You are invited to a cocktail of the most famous fairy-tales! Choose by yourselves the CLIP of your favourite fairy-tale from our offer. And we will make it happen!
A mobile jukebox – live music – wild puppets – street party! 

There were times when every person had their own coats-of-arms containing pictures of what they were like. Johny had a bare foot because he liked to run, Denisa had a note because she loved singing, Peter had a book – he enjoyed reading, and so on.... And why then did Knight Bruncvík get a lion in his coat-of-arms? You will find that out in our adventurous performance about courage. Don’t be scared to come!

Included in the “Czech Year” cycle on the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the Republic.

3+

On 10 January 1992, a violent storm swept into the Pacific Ocean one of the shipping containers from a cargo ship heading from Hong Kong to the USA. It contained over 28,000 rubber ducks. Some of them floated as far as the shores of Hawaii and Alaska, some made it to the antipodes in Australia. Others froze in blocks of Arctic ice or dissolved in the sea salt. Some found their way onto the shelves of avid collectors. Others helped scientists discover how the currents of the sea work. Many of them became part of a floating island of rubbish. And some are still floating in the ocean today.
The fantastic fates of (almost) all these migrating ducklings are documented on stage for the youngest audience.

A family performance about one family. Somewhere between heaven and hell, a donkey and an ox, Joseph and Mary, there is a little baby lying in the hey … The story may start! The music is playing softly, the puppets are moving gracefully, and the needles are giving off a pleasant aroma! It is a performance after which you will say: “How many more time times will I go to sleep before it is Christmas?" Angels are included in the price!

How much can be achieved within a lifetime? To be more exact, within a royal lifetime? This is a story about work, more work, and about work again, but also about a ruler’s love for his country, and of a country’s love for her ruler.

A performance about Charles IV, on the occasion of ​the​ 700th anniversary​ of his birth.​

A theatre production that comes into being before the eyes and according to the momentary composition, requirements, wishes and expectations of the audience. It will never get any closer to being “here” and “now”! The first and last performances broadcast live!

An annoying little girl, who for some reason has been sent to the dark forest all alone by her mother, meets with a blood-thirsty wolf-monster …
Have you heard this story a hundred times? We understand. Are you bored with it? So are we. Little Red Riding Hood is, however, one of the most famous tales of all times, so there must be something about it. Let’s bet that – regardless of whether you are 6, 12 or 18, whether you are a rock musician, a ballet dancer or a superhero – this little girl will rivet you all. 

The Great Doctor’s Tale, The Mailman’s Tale, The Tramp’s Tale, and The Bird’s, Dog’s and Cat’s ….
Cross my heart, and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye… these and other fairy tales will be played, sung, danced, called out loudly or yodelled by the author Karel Čapek and the painter Josef Čapek. Remember that you will want not NINE but a HUNDRED of them! Beautiful – Wonderful – Funny!
 

The story of Růžena Zátková, a Czech painter unknown to the Czech people. A lesson of painting and harmony. Leaving her home in České Budějovice and a honeymoon in Rome. A futuristic party and a premature encounter with death in a Swiss sanatorium. The opening of an exhibition she never had in her lifetime in Bohemia. What would it be like to see the world through her eyes?

14+

co-production project of South Bohemian Theatre live4K company

Invisibility does exist. They are all around us. You can’t notice them in the street. You don’t even glance at them when they’re sitting right opposite you. You introduce yourself to them but they claim to have known you for ages. You will forget their faces the instant they turn their eyes from you. And this story will be precisely about them.

The story is inspired by Mr N. O. Body’s real diary notes from 1906, which were found in his inheritance.

Vast rocky plains, herds of grazing sheep, long rides on horseback, shooting with a bow and arrows, camping, hunting, listening to local gods and legends, drawings in the sand, the warmth of the family fire, traditions and the endless horizon… but what is behind it?
The real-life story of a boy from a Navajo Indian reservation who longed to get a glimpse behind the horizon.
The life story of the Navajo shaman Blackhorse Mitchell in America during the 1950s.
“The world is as large as you are.”
A documentary puppet theatre consisting of grains of Navajo sand.
Based on the book Miracle Hill – The Story of a Navajo Boy by Blackhorse Mitchell.

The war is over and Odysseus is returning home! But the gods are not favourable to him and put one obstacle after another in his path: the alluring sirens, the possessive Cyclops, the cunning enchantress Circe, and the irresistible taste of Budweiser lager beer. Where the Malše River meets the Vltava, contemporary Budějovice meets ancient Greece. Board a steamer and become one of Odysseus’ sailors!
A unique opportunity to watch the play performed on the river banks from the deck of a ship travelling from České Budějovice through Hluboká to Purkarec, all of which turn into the islands Odysseus encounters on his back way to his native Ithaca.

6+

An adventurous ride by boat, rocket, airship, submarine, plane... through the life and works of Jules Verne! Every single story of the famous writer. And a story about fathers and people. Up on deck, the faraway lands are calling!