Photos from the performance
Poster of Performance




Studio of the Archa Theatre presents

Tabula Rasa Theatre
The Good Anna

A performance for four actresses and one musician based on motive of the texts of Gertrude Stein.
Premiere performances on October 17 and 18, 2000 at the Archa Theatre

"The prose of Gertrude Stein dealing with the speech as Cézanne's picture deals with the colours and shapes."
Jindřich Chalupecký


The Good Anna
This performance does not wish to define the world of women as a confrontation with the world of men, nor engage in any kind of question of emancipation. It's theme is the inside world of the woman whose background is of an ordinary, daily routine. We could perhaps call this performance a "kitchen symphony".
          The kitchen is for every woman a place of day-to-day rituals. Washing dishes is maybe not the favourite work of some people. Nevertheless the chore of rinsing the plates can become the music of paradise and running water can remind one of bubbling waterfalls and the call into the distance. All of us has had to experience the situation when cleaning the floor became an unfettered aggression and when ironing became an ostentatious demonstration of power.
          We believe the audience will have fun. This, from which the performance created, is nothing more than merely a few self-ironic, playful and amusing points of view. Here,women may perhaps see themselves, and it many remind men of their mothers, wives or lovers.

Creative team
Performing: Dana Poláková, Eva Pospíšilová, Hana Schmidtmajerová, Lenka Vychodilová and Jaroslav Kořán
Direction and dramaturgy conception: Jana Svobodová
Stage design and costumes: Petr Nikl
Music and sound design: Jaroslav Kořán
Lighting design: Michal Zborník
Dramaturgy collaboration: Nina Rutová
Translations of the texts: Pavla Niklová, Jana Svobodová
Technical collaboration: Jaromír Horák, D 50
Production Manager: Irena Nová
Special thanks to: prof. PhDr. Josef Jařab, PhDr. Tomáš Vrba, Jiří Vávra and Michael Delia

This project is created with the support of the Ministry of the Culture of the Czech Republic and the Municipal Authority of the Capital City of Prague.