The project La Putyka by Cirk La Putyka has been co-produced in cooperation director’s tandem Skutr. La Putyka combines acrobatics, dance, puppets and sport in an original perspective of new circus. According to its creators “it looks into the atmosphere of Czech pubs with the glazed look of a sober pint”. It’s discovering pub fantasy and changed its reality whereby physical laws don’t apply for a while and the audience witnesses unexpected acrobatics, musical and motoric events. Its originality has been primarily guided by an attempt not to copy French sources of new circus, even though France, which is the birthplace of this genre, has been an inspiration to R. Novák. “Just as the French have their wine, Czechs have their beer. Therefore our production is based on the Czech reality of pub life. In this sense La Putyka is some sort of new pub circus,” explained R. Novák about his project at the time.
The project opened on April 21, 2009 at the La Fabrika venue in Prague. The performance is 75 minutes long, without an interval.
Awards:
- Production of the Year 2009 - a survey by the theatre fortnightly newspaper Divadelní noviny
- Sazka and Divadelní noviny Award - Best Alternative Theatre Production
- Next Wave Festival Award - Personality of the year: Rostislav Novák jr.
- Skupova Plzeň Festival Award - Concept and Directing, Acting and Music
- Three nominations for Alfred Radok Award - Production of the Year and Stage Music of the Year
“La Putyka offers excellent entertainment: a scene morphs smoothly into the next one, one idea follows another, and the audience has no chance to get bored. The artists involved in the show are real masters of their trades.”
Markéta Dolníčková, Divadelní noviny, 11/2009
