Vydymenie / SMOKEOUT - Medzinárodný festival Divadelná Nitra 2025

🟠In the art of prohibit? Cleansing ritual associated with drafting space. The actors move among the audience and "send" smoke from the fragrant sticks to the theater. At the beginning of the collective work of the Husa Theater for a promotion, the need and desire for the theaters for the purification. In their work, they reflect the case launched by the controversial production of Croatian director Oliver Frljić Our Violence and Your Violence during the Festival Theater Svět Brno 2018. Cardinal Duka's lawsuit for Brno theaters for the disrespectful depiction of John Paul II. And Jesus Christ came to the Constitutional Court. And she triggered a crazy wave of reactions and many questions about freedom in art. The production of theater Frljić, as well as the feelings and doubts of the contaminated actors. The work combines fragments of legal texts, internet articles, audience letters, testimonies of witnesses and citations from the New Testament. The first, dynamic part, full of associations, sketches, funny or decadent etudes on the edge of black humor, when viewers tears from laughter, replaces the silence - intellectual discussion in the second part, in which each view has its place and many scenes from the first part show in another light. The productions also in Slovakia, with a team of actresses and actors of the legendary Brno theater (as well as the unmistakable faces of the TV series Good Morning, Brno!) will guide the audience (seriously and quite unreliable and with original humor with this "wildly entertaining cleansing ritual". Czech media and cultural space many questions: what is and what is no longer art, whether there are limits of freedom of speech, what is the relationship of political power and art, which is a symbol, and what is a direct and first -rate provocation, what is the role of political theater in today's world. Reblowing power and whether it is possible to ban art, we have to answer for ourselves. The performance is followed by a discussion of viewers with the creators.