Tuesday, 10 June 2025 | 7 pm | Theater unterm Dach
Festival opening and reception to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the city partnership between Berlin and Prague (open to anyone attending the performance afterwards by A studio Rubín).
With speeches by:
Georg Klußmann, Chief of Protocol of the Federal State of Berlin and of the Division for International Relations and Protocol
Zuzana Hocková, Head of the Department for International Relationships of the Magistrate of the Capital City of Prague
Tuesday, 10 June 2025 | 8 pm | Theater unterm Dach
Guest performance by Prague Theatre A studio Rubín – Abgrund (Engl.: Abyss; orig.: Propast), directed by Lucie Ferenzová
This play deals with the topical subject of the effects of the climate crisis on the younger generation. At first, it seems to be simply a romantic story about two strangers. But what happens with love when the birds disappear, the forest disappears, the air disappears? A dialogue about a future that is predictable, but unimaginable. About the abyss known as depression. About the search for someone other than oneself. And, of course, about love and hope.
Directed by: Lucie Ferenzová
Dramaturgy: Dagmar Fričová
Stage and costume design: Andrijana Trpković and Minna Liebhart
Visual Performance: Michal Kindernay
Music: Rlung
Performed by: Jana Kozubková and Šimon Krupa
A coproduction between Kolonie, z.s. and A Studio Rubín.
Date: 10 June 2025 | 8 pm
Venue: Theater unterm Dach, Berlin
In Czech with German surtitles, followed by a post-show talk with the creative team.
Press release in German as PDF
Press release in Czech as PDF
The A studio Rubín theatre is a small theatre stage near Malostranské náměstí (Small Side Square) in the medieval cellars of the U Tří korun (Three Crowns) building, whose beginnings date back to the 1967/68 season. During the period of Czechoslovak socialism, the basement stage was often the scene of subversive theatre performances and one of the centres of socially critical culture.
Under its current management, A studio Rubín continues to develop a progressive dramaturgy that focuses on authorial and documentary theatre in an innovative way. It actively promotes the creation of new theatre texts that deal with current social issues (platform ‘playwright-in-residence’), supports art students who can realise their first author projects here (RubínLab project) and, with its progressive and open approach, helps to bring young up-and-coming artists together with experienced professionals. Often taboo phenomena such as precarious work, work and motherhood, violence and its sexualised forms or climate anxiety are brought to the stage here in an audience-oriented, socially critical, humorous and dark pop style.
Foto: A studio Rubín
Dagmar Fričová (née Radová) is a dramaturge and author. She studied dramaturgy at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. In the past, she worked as a dramaturge at the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre (Národním divadlo moravskoslezské), the HaDivadlo Theatre in Brno, and she worked for Czech Radio. Since 2017, she has been the author, dramaturge and artistic director of A studio Rubín. She conceives the studio stage as a playwright’s theatre with a focus on more intimate and seemingly everyday topics, which at the same time raise fundamental socio-political questions. For A studio Rubín, she has written texts such as Thelma a Selma (Engl. Thelma and Selma, premièred in 2018) and DIY: po tátovi (Engl. DIY: from Dad, premièred in 2020). In collaboration with the director Ondřej Štefaňák, she created the text Lonely horny only (première 2019) and with the director Jan Friče Burn out aneb Vyhoř! (Burn out or burn!, premièred in 2019). Her latest plays include Propast (Engl. Abyss, world premiere 2023) and Endemité: Příběhy mizení (Engl. Shore of Disappearance, world premiere 2024), written together with Matthias Naumann (Theater Futur II Konjunktiv) as a German-Czech theatre project (German premiere at Theater unterm Dach 2025).
Foto: Dita Havránková
Lucie Ferenzová is a director and dramaturge. Her first theatre performances took place in Most, in mines, tenement houses and industrial buildings as site-specific and immersive theatre performances. This was followed by literature studies at the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University and directing at the Academy of Fine Arts Theatre in Prague, as well as her first work at the Prague Chamber Theatre (under the direction of Dušan David Pařízek) and at the Divadlo Na Zábradlí (Theatre at the Railings), where she worked as a dramaturge for four years. She directs, works as a dramaturge and also writes her own plays. With the Kolonie theatre, which she founded and which frequently collaborates with A studio Rubín, she mainly devotes herself to productions that she co-develops with the ensemble (e.g. Propast, Pravidla úklidu, or Endemité: příběhy mizení).
Foto: Dita Havránková
Part of the Ein Stück: Tschechien Festival
The festival Ein Stück: Tschechien 2025 is an event by Drama Panorama: Forum für Übersetzung und Theater e. V. in cooperation with the Czech Center Berlin and the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin. Funded by the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery, the German-Czech Future Fund and Dilia z. s. Supported by Theater unterm Dach.
