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The Tears of Weathered Men

The fateful tale of one of the most successful Czech skiers, Bohumil Hanč and his friend Václav Vrbata, in a combined puppet and live action performance by the Vosto5 Theatre featuring amateur actors from the Krkonoše foothills region.

A hundred years after the greatest Czech sporting tragedy we still don’t know for certain what happened that day on the golden hillock in the Krkonoše Mountains.

“…still he fought, but death pressed its icy finger insistently on his heart…”

When these weather-beaten men, Czechs, Germans and Norwegians, participants in the cancelled race, men of one blood, stood together over the body of Bohumil Hanč, they all cried. How could the most perfect of them, the best, the bravest, someone always ready to help his fellow man, suddenly be lying there dead with no hope of being brought back to life?

 

Duration: 90 minutes

Premiere:  12 December 2013 at the Ypsilon Studio in Prague

SCRIPT and DIRECTION
Ondřej Cihlář
SETS and PUPPETS
Jan Brejcha
COSTUMES
Daniela Klimešová
CURTAINS
Markéta Šohajová
LIGHT DESIGN
Šimon Kočí a Pavel Moc
PROJECTIONS and SOUND
Martin Bražina
PRODUCTION
Denisa Sedláčková
PERFORMED BY
Ondřej Bauer, Renata Prokopová, Tomina Jeřábek, Petr Prokop a Ondřej Cihlář