Goose on a String Theatre:
My Hooves Have Already Torn Up the Ground

From photos, videos, and social media accounts. Nature. Suppressed, harnessed, and imprisoned within human frames and frameworks. Locked behind the bars of our language, its winged (!) expressions and phrases. Can we still truly encounter it? Other than through our own self-centeredness? How about an elephant in the room? Or right in your living room!

Three remarkable creative personalities, Tereza Maxmilián Marečková, Dušan Hřebíček, and guest Eva Marie Růžena, a Brno poet who uniquely reflects on the colors of the autistic spectrum on which she finds herself, take the situation of the elephant in the room at face value. What kind of lives do animals live with us? And what are they afraid of? Join us on a poetic journey to explore our current understanding of nature and its stereotypes. And even more broadly, to explore perspectives that we too often suppress. Or... from which we suppress ourselves?

The production, characterized by a distinctive audiovisual element, will also feature live performances by Emilka Říhová and as yet unknown spiders, flies, mites, and other creatures. Eliška Balog (1994) is a rising star of the new generation of Czech theater directors. After studying directing and dramaturgy of alternative and puppet theater at DAMU, her name has appeared on experimental stages (Vzlet, MeetFactory...) as well as large established stages (National Theater, Činoherní studio Ústí nad Labem...). She moves across genres, with a tendency toward masks, movement, and artistic stylization. Her work is closely linked to writing dramatic texts, which she then stages herself. She is interested in themes of minorities, exclusion, and outsiderism. She won the Evald Schorm Award for 2021 for her play Všem se nám uleví (We Will All Be Relieved).