MEDIATHEK

YELLOW – BLUE – GREEN In the beginning the world was colourless and empty. But then magical things started to happen… The inspiration for Filip Homola’s production came from the book Duhové pohádky (Rainbow Stories) by one of the most recognised Czech children’s authors, Daniela Fischerová. Several stories in the book are connected by the figure of the Sun. When the Sun is bored, magical things start to happen. Colours, stars and chickens start to appear, as well as sympathy and trust and love. This expressive stage collage, featuring a text and art design full of imagery, with minimalist music, is designed for children aged three and older, and for adults of all ages.

// Credits //
DIRECTION: Filip Homola
SET DESIGN: Kamil Bělohlávek
MUSIC: Filip Homola
CAST: Miroslava Bělohlávková, Michaela Palaščáková, Antonín Týmal

Premiere January 6th, 2018

// Author //

FILIP HOMOLA (1969) is a puppeteer, musician and director. After working in the Lampion theatre in Kladno, Minor theatre in Prague and Babadlo in Prešov he came to rest in 1999 in the Naive Theatre Liberec. Since then he has played almost fifty roles there. He is also a member of the respected ambient duo Kora et le Mechanix, and composes stage music, for example for the Naive Theatre’s successful productions Budulínek and Bohemia is by the Sea and for his own production There are Places the Dark Likes, Where Never and Nothing Hide on Islands Remote (in which the music of the duo Kora et le Mechanix came first when the stage work was being created) and the little piece Yellow – Blue – Green. He has won many puppet theatre awards, recently, for example, an honourable mention by the jury of the Mateřinka 2017 festival for the sound design of the production Bohemia is by the Sea (together with Milan Blažek). He also won the Divadelní noviny award in 2017 for the concept and direction of There are Places the Dark Likes, Where Never and Nothing Hide on Islands Remote.

// NAIVE THEATRE LIBEREC//

The Naive Theatre Liberec was founded in 1949 as one of the first professional puppet theatres in the former Czechoslovakia. Its history is connected with the names of director and actor Jan Schmid (who founded the Studio Ypsilon here in 1963 – in the 1970s it then moved to Prague), the director Markéta Schartová and the playwright Iva Peřinová. Since the early 1990s its manager has been Stanislav Doubrava. The theatre does not have a permanent director, but works with guest professionals from other puppet and drama theatres. The theatre’s most critically-acclaimed plays include The Handsome Fire Chief or Fire in the National Theatre (2005), directed by Tomáš Dvořák. Its author, Iva Peřinová, was nominated among other things for an anniversary Alfréd Radok Award. The play was filmed by Czech Television, and the company also performed it repeatedly on the stage of the National Theatre’s historic building. Five years later the same creative team produced a puppet interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet Swan Lake (2009). Another area of long-term success has been the theatre’s work for small children, created by director Michaela Homolová and author and dramaturg Vít Peřina. Their production of Budulínek (2012) won an award for the best Czech puppet theatre of the year. A further production by the team, The Ram Who Fell From Heaven (2014), met with similar acclaim. This non-verbal theatre designed for children from the age of 2 was nominated for the Theatre Critics’ Award in the category Production of the Year. Michaela Homolová’s studio production Bohemia Is By The Sea (2016) won both an ERIK award for the most inspiring Czech puppet production of the year and the Divadelní noviny award. All these three – especially the linguistically universally understandable Ram – were invited to a number of prestigious Czech and foreign theatre festivals. The Naivní divadlo is a regular guest at these festivals, undertaking numerous journeys not only to most European countries, but also to China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the US, Canada, Mexico, India, Israel, Korea and Pakistan.

// Press //

Six cubes on black pedestals and a sort of aquarium or vivarium containing strange items (bits of bark, sand, models of animals, leaves and other things) are used to tell the story of the creation of a colourful world. The Sun is not satisfied with the world that he looks at, and, inspired by the colours of the rainbow, changes the colourless garden of the world into a world full of poetry and surprising connections. Our guides to this creation of the world are the three narrators – figures with hoods, reminiscent of fantasy heroes from computer games or films – who connect the individual scenes with frugal texts. As well as being narrators, they help out in some of the scenes. Both guides and animators, they hang on the cubes or put inside them all sorts of objects, thus creating mysterious nests and still lives that may give birth to chickens or may harbour sulking maple leaves.
– Nina Malíková, Divadelní noviny

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