Slapstick Sonata is a performance bringing together Mozart's sonatas with slapstick comedy from silent film era creating a very literal combination of high art and popular culture. Visual poetry meets absurd physical comedy and contemporary circus expression.
Aerial acrobatics, tumbling, clown antics, dance, live music and theatrical elements fuse into a free-flowing stream of references ranging from the classical opera to the silent film comedies.
Direction: Maksim Komaro
Performers: Zuzana Kabrtova, Jiri Weissmann, Vojtech Fulep, Anna Schmidtmajerova, Dan Komarov, Michal Boltnar
Lightning design: Juho Rahijärvi
Production: Cirk La Putyka (CZ), Circo Aereo (FI)
Co-production: Cirko Center For New Circus (FI), La Fabrika (CZ), Prague National Theatre (CZ)
Schedule:
Work in progress – 30th November 2011, La Fabrika, Prague (CZ)
Premiere – 22nd February 2012, NEW STAGE of NATIONAL THEATER, Prague (CZ)
