2nd Ball of Revolver Revue and Torst Publishing House
in the Archa Theatre (programme)
Archa, Revolver Revue & Torst (Lidové noviny)




2nd Ball of Revolver Revue
and Torst Publishing House in the Archa Theatre

January 26, 1996


Program

The festive opening of the ball
Ball's Opening Dance Buchty a loutky
Performance of musical group Vltava
Presentation of the Revolver Revue Prize for 1995
Discotheque Haunted Castle (including the bubble juggler Václav Strasser)
Performance of musical group QÁBABÁBBA
Tombola
Performance of musical group TGM Stereo
Discotheque of Ondřej Štindl

Robert Tamchyna - M.C. of the evening
In Caffé - jazz Dixieland The Chappies


Tombola

Main Prize:
Věra Nováková - Kruh života / Circle of Life (series of graphics based on pictures from the Fifties)

Robert Portel - photography from the cycle "Men and Women"
Pavel Brázda - three xerographers from the series "Play"
Viktor Karlík - graphic list of album "Album"
Bohdan Holomíček - photograph
Karel Cudlín - photograph

Other Prizes:
Collection of books from the Maťa Publishing House
Portel, Stratil, Diviš
Books from Zbyňka Hejdy
Kritická příloha No. 3 and Revolver Revue No. 30
Kritická příloha No. 3 and poster of Revolver Revue
CD Opera La Serra
Book The Residents
T-shirts of The Residents
T-shirt of the Archa Theatre
CD The Residents
Books from Torst Publishing House

We would like to thank Smirnoff, Black Velvet, Veseko, Měšťan, Franco taxi for their support and collaboration.





Archa, Revolver Revue & Torst

If you put together the first letter from each of the words Archa, Revolver Revue and TORST , they spell ART, which was what the participants of that evening did not decline, as everything revolved around it.

The second Revolver Revue and TORST Publishing House Ball presented in the Archa Theatre had a full program: an opening dance (Buchty a loutky), the bubble juggler Václav Strasser, musical groups Vltava and QÁBABÁBA (for a cynic, who can handle the postmodern "anything is possible") performed, TGM Stereo alternated with other, if at all possible, decaying discotheque of the Haunted Castle; in the cafe, the Dixieland group The Chappies kept a mild atmosphere. Fresh snack and the most of the recent books published by Torst were also available throughout the hall. When the tombola came about, happiness won the main prize - series of graphics of Věra Nováková, photograph of Robert Portel, Bohdan Holomíček and Karel Cudlín, graphics of Viktor Karlík, xerography of Pavel Brázda or even the books from Torst, third Kritickou přílohu RR or new Thirtieth edition of the Revolver Revue, as well as T-shirts of The Residents and the Archa Theatre.
          The Tenth Annual Jubilee Award of the Revolver Revue for 1995 was the highlight of the evening. From the hands of Editor in Chief, Tereza Pokorná, translator and essayist, awarded the prize to Miloslav Žilina, whose long career of conspirative work and his persistent, inconspicuous presence in the independent culture was suddenly "in the lamplight" and became what it already was - a firm point and not overlooking position, as for the rest of the ball, a bottle of Smirnoff vodka sat on the table of the honored person.
          Three members of the jury appreciated the collection of his reviews which were printed in the Revolver Revue last year, but also his "unique merit of the human reference" and "non-representative part in the catacomb life", a carton of cigarettes and huge ration of vodka. Žilina is our leading translator from French (for example his Czech translation of Camu's The Citizen, (Odeon, 1988)), English and Indian languages. In the last number, the Kritická příloha of the Revolver Revue recited from Vaculík's book Milí spolužáci (Nice schoolmates).
          Participants of the ball had a great time "non stop" in a group, in the foyer, on the balcony or in any other full space of the theatre where friendly faces came out of the wood work everywhere. In the large hall, the guests waded through a drift of blown-up balloons of all colors that exploded on the floor every time (our creative editor sat at the table and popped them) or others alone or in pairs danced without restraint - roughly, uninterrupted by their "working hours". The dance floor seemed to be a kettle - young artists and their friends with healthy appetites ate up the commercial music with the prime example of Nekonečné buggy (Infinity buggy); Bondy's Plastic People hit My žijeme v Praze, to je tam… (We leave in Prague, it is there..) etc. came after the Minařík boys. "Animals" retired from the Archa Theatre back to the frosty ground, hardly noticing the dense shield of Prague's smog.

Věra Jirousová, Lidové noviny, 29. 1. 1996




Balls in the Archa Theatre