Premiere on February 25, 2023 at the Municipal Theatre
The Giorns are a mafia family specializing in drug smuggling for the third generation, but they fail to deliver the umpteenth shipment in a row, this time to Macedonia. The client is furious and gives the clan one last chance… At that moment, two actors of the “Fantastic Theater” ring the door and ask for a contribution to travel to the Macedonian amateur festival. The members of the theater troupe are exclusively “people with special needs”, that is blind, autistic, deaf-mute and mentally handicapped. They are rehearsing Romeo and Juliet, but due to cuts in the Ministry’s budget, there is a risk that they will not go anywhere… A brilliant and bold plan is born in the head of the father of the family. Not knowing anything about the theater, he decides to become a theater producer. And his son falls in love with the main actress. It gets a little complicated…
Contemporary Israeli comedy balances on the edge of correctness, breaking down stereotypes and myths about “people with special needs” in an original way. She does not lack liberating humor, self-irony and insight, as well as great acting opportunities.
Translation from Hebrew to English: Hadar Galron
Translation from English: Zuzana Josková
Translation of scenes from Romeo and Juliet: Jiří Josek
Editing for VČD Pardubice: Petr Abraham
Director: Petr Novotný
Stage: Ivo Žídek
Costumes: Roman Šolc
Choreography: Petra Parvoničová
Screenplay: Michal Vraný
Dramaturgy: Jana Uherová
Assistant director: Martina Mejzlíková
People and cast:
TOBY GIORNO, head of the family … Tomáš Lněnička
VERA, his wife, women’s tailor … Martina Sikorová
ZACH, their son … Matěj Štrunc
TIRAN, criminal, works for the family … Radek Žák
OLÍVIE LEVY, director of the Fantastic Theater … Veronika Malá
OSKAR, (Romeo), borderline personality disorder … Jan Musil
LIAH, (Julie), blind … Eliška Jechová
NINA, (Nanny), deaf mute … Dagmar Novotná
CAPTAIN, (Mercutio), Asperger syndrome … Josef Pejchal
NATHAN, (Capulet, Father Lorenzo), hard of hearing … Petr Borovec
RŮŽENKA, (Kapuletová), mild mental disability … Kristýna Hulcová
DYLAN, (Tybalt), mild to moderate mental disability … Josef Láska
LIVING CORPSE, SECURITY, CLEANER … Vladimír Chmelař *
Credit: https://www.vcd.cz/inscenace/fantasticke-divadlo