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Jan Bárta: HIT | ENGLISH FRIENDLY
Event by: Studio Hrdinů, CreWcollective
Location: National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace, Dukelských hrdinů 47, Praha 7
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🙏 HIT 🙏
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concept and interpretation: Jan Bárta
photo, video, graphics, projection: Dita Havránková
technical support, lighting design: Václav Hruška and Studio Hrdinů
production: CreWcollective
photo: Tomáš Hejzlar
length: 55 minutes
premiere: 29 October. 2025
“And I would scream, but they have places for people who scream.”
~ Charles Bukowski
What do we have to scream to be seen? What do we have to show in order to be heard?
The solo performance Hit works with the theme of emphasis, exaggeration and extension in the act of hitting. A game with non-aesthetized physical gesture that overflows into action, image, word and text. Through the form of a minimalist approach to theatrical action, which is fundamentally communicative. Strikingness, radicalism, anger translated into the language of the everyday.
The performance loosely follows on from the author's solo Pitch from 2015, which was premiered in the Czech Republic and abroad, and on the directness of the work of the author duo Bárta-Třešňáková (2010 That's Exactly About Paradise... it's Not, 2014 Sticker - nomination for production of the year and the DNA Nová sítě award).
Credit: Studio Hrdinů, CreWcollective, Cabin Studio Pěčice, Bubi and Franta
The project was supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, City Hall of the City of Prague, Studio Hrdinů
more information on the website 🌐 www.studiohrdinu.cz
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🙏 HIT 🙏
concept and performance: Jan Bárta
photo, video, graphics, projections: Dita Havránková
technical support, lighting design: Václav Hruška & Studio Hrdinů
production: CreWcollective
photo by: Tomáš Hejzlar
duration: 55 minutes
premiere: 29/10/2025
“And I would scream, but they have places for people who scream.”
~ Charles Bukowski
How much do we need to scream to be seen? How much do we need to show to be heard?
The solo performance Hit explores themes of amplification, exaggeration, and extension present within the act of a blow. It plays with non-aestheticized physical gestures, overflowing into action, image, word, and text, using a minimalist approach to theatrical action that is fundamentally communicative. Impact, radicality, and anger are transformed into the language of the quotidian.
The performance is loosely related to the 2015 solo performance Pitch staged both in the Czech Republic and abroad, and aligns with the straightforward style of the Bárta-Třešňáková creative duo (It’s actually about, not the paradise (2010), Sticker (2014), the latter of which was nominated for Performance of the Year and the DNA Nová sító Award).
***SCROLL DOWN FOR ENGLISH***
concept and interpretation: Jan Bárta
photo, video, graphics, projection: Dita Havránková
technical support, lighting design: Václav Hruška and Studio Hrdinů
production: CreWcollective
photo: Tomáš Hejzlar
length: 55 minutes
premiere: 29 October. 2025
“And I would scream, but they have places for people who scream.”
~ Charles Bukowski
What do we have to scream to be seen? What do we have to show in order to be heard?
The solo performance Hit works with the theme of emphasis, exaggeration and extension in the act of hitting. A game with non-aesthetized physical gesture that overflows into action, image, word and text. Through the form of a minimalist approach to theatrical action, which is fundamentally communicative. Strikingness, radicalism, anger translated into the language of the everyday.
The performance loosely follows on from the author's solo Pitch from 2015, which was premiered in the Czech Republic and abroad, and on the directness of the work of the author duo Bárta-Třešňáková (2010 That's Exactly About Paradise... it's Not, 2014 Sticker - nomination for production of the year and the DNA Nová sítě award).
Credit: Studio Hrdinů, CreWcollective, Cabin Studio Pěčice, Bubi and Franta
The project was supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, City Hall of the City of Prague, Studio Hrdinů
more information on the website 🌐 www.studiohrdinu.cz
--- ENGLISH VERSION ---
🙏 HIT 🙏
concept and performance: Jan Bárta
photo, video, graphics, projections: Dita Havránková
technical support, lighting design: Václav Hruška & Studio Hrdinů
production: CreWcollective
photo by: Tomáš Hejzlar
duration: 55 minutes
premiere: 29/10/2025
“And I would scream, but they have places for people who scream.”
~ Charles Bukowski
How much do we need to scream to be seen? How much do we need to show to be heard?
The solo performance Hit explores themes of amplification, exaggeration, and extension present within the act of a blow. It plays with non-aestheticized physical gestures, overflowing into action, image, word, and text, using a minimalist approach to theatrical action that is fundamentally communicative. Impact, radicality, and anger are transformed into the language of the quotidian.
The performance is loosely related to the 2015 solo performance Pitch staged both in the Czech Republic and abroad, and aligns with the straightforward style of the Bárta-Třešňáková creative duo (It’s actually about, not the paradise (2010), Sticker (2014), the latter of which was nominated for Performance of the Year and the DNA Nová sító Award).