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Brass Band - The story of a little town, where time seems to stand still. One pub, one event, and people who would rather like to forget. But the past –the mob revenge at the end of the Second World War – will not go away, and the town's present-day inhabitants have to take a stance towards it. Everything takes place in an authentic pub environment, over beer.

Reviews:
A significant (if not the most significant) contribution to the many contemporary Czech projects labelled political theatre [...] There is a unique symbiosis here - the humour and ease of Vost05, the energy of Sto zvířat, kindred actors, a warm pub and a theme about which there is still much to say, provided it is treated with perspective and the knowledge of continuity. All these have joined together to create an essential production.
(by Lenka Dombrovská, Divadelní noviny)

Brass Band does not take one side or the other. It does not claim to tell the historical truth, it does not moralise. Rather, it shows how evil is born in people, and how absurd our modern-day reflections are when faced with this evil.
(by Tereza Hýsková, Artikl)

The creators of Brass Band know that the skeleton of hushed-up history is still slumbering in today's Czechs, and that it does not take much for it to wake up, shake its bones and stir up old wrongs again. Everything acts here, the whole of the Rychta pub. All that is needed is for the skeleton of time to be kicked a little more often, so that everyone has the opportunity to relive the whole history again. This is how political theatre ought to be done.
(by Dominik Melichar, Divadelní noviny)

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Jiří Havelka

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