This year Alfred has teamed up once again with the Forman Brothers' floating performance boat Mystery and, for the first time, with the long-established Celetné Theater in the heart of Old Town. The three venues are jointly showcasing a series of mini-seasons.

Veronika Švábová's Mama Luna examines — with subtlety and charm, and a soupcon of irony — multiple everyday neuroses. From a beginning of intense, robotic motions of the upper body, slowly a young woman emerges. She gets dressed, is able to open the fridge with a massive effort, eat and eventually leave the stage a normal human being, complete with shoes and bag. Utilizing minimal and limited movement, this is a genuinely touching and engaging work. In Švábová's second work, Noise, electronic body sensors are used to control aural and light effects.

In the "Summer Run" series at Alfred, many of the pieces are about dreaming, an appropriate topic for this heavily visual, abstract and nonliteral form of theater. Book of the Dreamhunters, performed by six expressive dancers, looks at a number of extreme emotional states as experienced in dreams and transposed into movements of the body. Standing Figures from the consistently excellent Krepsko, a group of experimental Czech contemporary clowns who make poignant and delicate work, is based around a surreal image of travel, wherein the stage becomes an airport. And a tale of the twists and turns in a classic love story is told with humor and quirky object manipulation in Together Forever, by husband-and-wife team Stage Code. Musician Marika Papach has made a work for video and song in Apples and Hearts, and Vojta Švejda returns with his successful one-man show Bliss.

Finally, in the delightful and tantalizingly simplistic Desire, costume and accordion combine in poetic and lyrical expression. A young woman, superbly performed by Anna Synková, is slowly dressed up in an exquisite layered wedding costume from folk tradition until she becomes a doll-like figure. As the layers are piled on, colors and shapes change and different aspects of her personality are revealed.