Is there a limit to the depths of blackness you can explore when creating a comedy? Watching Forced Entertainment’s Void Story last night, the answer comes loud and clear – no.

Last Thursday heralded the final performance of the National Theatre Live season, one which has already brought us phenomenal performances including King Lear with Derek Jacobi as the demented king, and Danny Boyle’s ferociously moving adaptation of Frankenstein.

The Cherry Orchard – Chekhov’s satire on the various Russian classes brought humor and social commentary to the fore, and was broadcast live from the Olivier Theatre, London to cinemas worldwide, including Kino Aero.

Leon Trotsky was killed with a mountain climber’s axe, NOT an ice pick. This is very important to theatre production group Cepín, whose moniker translates to ‘mountain climber’s axe’, while one of the plays in their debut outing makes a concerted (and very funny) point of elucidating on said murder weapon.

The Divaldo Kámen was all things razzle-dazzle on Friday 25 Feb, as the theatre glammed itself up in the name of Queens Off Broadway, a self-branded “amuse’ical” based on the hit stage shows and films Chicago and Cabaret.

The Prague Post was there to soak up all that jazz.

All this week the Malá inventura (small inventory) festival has been invading and enlivening the artistic spaces of Prague with its vivid brand of ‘new theatre’.

Wednesday 23 Feb. saw the turn of Mah Hunt – a piece in which dance duo Lenka Vágnerová and Pavel Mašek portray a couple living in a future where no animals remain. Together, the two try to imagine what it would have been like to hunt and to kill, to be hunted and to be killed.