Bohnice Theatre Company (Bohnicka divadelni spolecnost)

The BTC was established in 1991 in Bohnice mental hospital in Prague, Czech Republic. Since 1996 the theatre group has been settled in the Citadela Studio – cultural social center, an experimental meeting point for wide range of artists, students, elderly, youth and children as well as people facing exclusion such as ‘mentally ill’ clients or disadvantaged artists belonging to minority groups, and the general public. The studio is operated by nonprofit association Studio Citadela, z.s.

First of all, the BTC is a community: open formation of people with different experiences, opinions and views, people with different degrees and diagnoses of ‚mental illness’. The core of the group consists of theatre professionals and psychiatric patients. The group has been accompanied by students, therapists, artistic lecturers, and sympathizers.

In 2006, the BTC project was given the Mental Health Europe award.

In 2018-2020, Citadela Studio/BTC has been a proud partner of Creative Europe project POWER (www.power-creative.eu) together with inclusive theatre companies from Coop. Nazareno (IT), KCAT (IE) and THEAMA Theatre of disabled people (GR).

• The POWER project is an international co-production between 4 European organisations who have significant experience in the facilitation, creation and production of inclusive theatre.
• These four partners have come together to create a play „WE ALL COME FROM SOMEWHERE“ aimed at children, young people and the elderly, drawing from each country’s experience and attitudes around their refugees and migrant population. This play was written from interviews and testimonies of refugees in each country.
• POWER addresses a major global picture, examining difference and prejudice through the lens of people who themselves are often ignored and marginalised.

In 2010-12, Citadela Studio/BTC became partners of Erasmus and Grundtvig projects ACTOR and Through Theatre to Talents (4T) targeted to art rehabilitation techniques for people with specific needs.

www.studiocitadela.cz

Cabaret Artaud

Duration: 60 minutes

Description: Unconventional theatre production based on Artaud's life and work. By the means of physical theatre, grotesque perspective and improvisation the performance seeks to present an exceptional personality of Antonin Artaud, the mad poet and theatre maker, a genius suffering, always mutinous, rebelliously seeking…

Extra information: International tours, festivals, eg. L'altre festival (2019, 2017, Barcelona, Spain), THEATERWAHN (2010, 2015, Kassel Germany), Handicap Null (2010, Braunschweig, DE), Madness and Arts World Festival (2006, Münster, DE), Therapy and Theatre (2008, 2010, Lodz Poland), Czech Centre Brussels (2002, Belgium) etc.

People on road: 12-14 people

Freight: necessary

Freight details: 12 pieces of costumes packed separately.

Workshops, post-performance discussions for people with specific needs, students as well as a wider audience.