International Theatre Festival Association
Q U A R T E T – FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
23 – 28 MARCH 2009 | CHEB, CZECH REPUBLIC
23. March – Festival's Eve
20:00 – 15:30 ART cinema theatre: projection of the film Iszka´s Journey
(2007, dir. Csaba Bollók, nominee for the non-American Oscar)
24. March – 1. Festival Day (Hungarian National Day)
16:00 – 15:30 Public reading of a new Hungarian play (Gallery of Art, Cheb)
Péter Esterházy: Rubens and Non-Euclidean Women
Exhibiton of costume designs, degustation (Hungarian wine etc.)
17:30 – 18:30 Opening of the Exhibition „Cheb viewed by a foreigner“,
café Thalia (theatre)
19:00 opening of the 2nd Quartet festival (theatre)
19:30 – 22:30 Performance of Gárdonyi Géza Színház in Eger
András Visky: Alcoholists
21:30 discussion of actors and spectators (theatre club)
22:00 concert of a Hungarian musician Ágnes Kutas
(percussions Jaroslav Kořán)
25. March – 2. Festival Day (Serbian National Day)
15:00 – 18:30 „Contemporary Czech drama + French, Serbian and Hungarian plays
on the Czech stage“ – lecture with Powerpoint presentation
(MgA. Marta Ljubková, in English – Cheb Museum)
16:30 – 18:30 Public reading of a Serbian play (Jazz Café, ancient monastery)
Biljana Srbljanović: Family stories
Exhibition (presentation of SNP), degustation
19:00 – 22:30 performance of Srpsko narodno pozorište Novi Sad
Milena Marković: The Doll Ship
21:30 discussion of actors and spectators (theatre club)
22:00 concert
26. March – 3. festival Day (French National Day)
16:30 – 18:30 Public reading of fragments of a new French play (Cheb Museum)
Florian Zeller: Le Manege
17:30 – 18:30 Exhibiton, degustation, presentation of other French texts
19:00 – 22:30 performance of Théâtre du Rictus
19:30 – 21:30 Sylvain Levey: Asphalt Jungle
21:30 discussion of actors and spectators (theatre club)
22:00 concert
27. March – 4. Festival Day
19:00 – 22:30 performance of the Cheb theatre
19:30 – 21:30 J. Jirků, M. Ljubková: Once Upon a Time in Cheb
(a western cabaret with elements of cartoons and local satire,
based on the plot of the film Once Upon a Time in West)
28. March
19:00 – 22:30 performance of the Cheb theatre
19:30 – 21:30 Legend of the Chalk Circle
(screenplay by Z. Bartoš, M. Ljubková, based on an oriental legend
and Brecht´s Caucasian Chalk Circle,
story of two women disputing a child)