Photos from the performance
Theatre Husa na provázku, Brno
Michel de Ghelderode: The School of Fools
January 25 and 26, 2000 in the Archa Theatre
Czech translation: Mario Stretti
Direction: Peter Scherhaufer
Music: Miloš Štědroň ml.
Costumes: Kamila Polívková
Direction collaboration: Claudia Francisci
Movement collaboration: Alena Ambrová
Dramaturgy: Radan Koryčanský
Fools:
Knight Folial, the Master of fools - Pavel Zatloukal
Galgüt, the school servant - Matěj Dadák
Bifrons - Radim Fiala or Roman Slovák
Horrir - Michal Bumbálek or Gabriela Ježková
Asterik - Alena Ambrová
Belzobe - Ivana Hloužková
Boufranc - Dita Kaplanová
Bouffon - Kateřina Šudáková
Carlin - Eva Vrbková
Nicol - Nicole Zrzavá
Dragmar - Michal Bumbálek or Gabriela Ježková
Frical - Radim Fiala or Roman Slovák
Folatil - Radan Koryčanský
Mescaron - Jan Leflík
Moscul - Josef Ševčík ml.
Parador - Václav Vodička
Serlap - Jan Zrzavý
Czech Premiere - May 24, 1999 in the Large Hall of the Husa na provázku Theatre.
Only a few people know smaller or bigger means of being humble. Only a few people have felt what it is to be a lunatic, a fool for a while - to be one who exists merely for the pleasure of the more powerful. How to get this unenviable role? There is a secret how to do it. And it will be divulged by the Old Fool, the main character in the Ghelderode play. He is the master who teaches his successors, an ensemble of adepts learning about their fool's fate. And the final lesson, because the entire activity occurs over the course of the lessons, we can compare to final examinations where students must present everything they have learned. In this instance, it is how to be a fool. And where else can you see so many professional lunatics and fools together? In the circus? On some street performance? No at all! Only in the School of Fools, charmed by Ghelderode's imagination and performed by Husa na provázku Theatre, is it an artistic ensemble who carry out the roles of almost twenty bizarre characters, the combination of the skill and humour of the fool, but also the malice with the envy.
(c) Theatre Husa na provázku - Centrum of Experimental Theatre