If you’re looking for family fun this holiday season, look no further than Prague Playhouse’s revival of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol at Literární Kavárna.
Prague Playhouse, an English-language theater troupe, is putting on a revival of the classic Charles Dickens novel adapted for stage, A Christmas Carol, Nov. 17-19 and Nov. 24-26 at 7:30 pm at Literární Kavárna on Řetězova 10, Prague 1.
Everybody loves a good loser. Maybe that’s why Charles M. Schultz’s character Charlie Brown has endeared himself to audiences since his first appearance 60 years ago.
For fans of the paranoid little guy (and of course his dog Snoopy) the Prague Playhouse are staging a production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. The 1967 musical sees the diminutive miserablist and friends (as portrayed by a group of fully-grown adults) sing about the trials, tribulations and joys of being young children.
Though not the most famous or accomplished of the Bard’s work, The Winter’s Tale can claim to one of the most memorable stage directions: “Exit, pursued by a bear”.
Come on, admit it. When Colin Firth did his bit at the end of The King’s Speech, you were a wibbling ruddy wreck. But slowly and surely, you began to ease up, becoming galvanized with hope and a swelling of pride. Before you knew it, you were standing up in the aisles, hand on chest, flapping your miniature Union Jack about and chanting “Gawd save the King!” Don’t deny it, we saw you.
Here are some more excellent uses of music in film.
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.
It doesn’t take a great film critic to tell you that though they’re both based in the glitzy world of raunchy stage shows, Cabaret and its modern counterpart Burlesque are universes of quality apart.
Still, they share more similarities than you might think. Here are some of the big ones.
Rodrigo Cortés’ enclosed thriller makes Aron Ralston’s canyon disaster look like a minor mishap.
But there are plenty of other, lighter (in all senses of the word) films at La Película, which is at Světozor from Feb. 15-20.
Although he didn’t actually compose the original theme tune (it’s credited entirely to Monty Norman), John Barry was drafted in to substantially improve it. He went on to score for Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice, Moonraker, Octopussy and others, including collaborations with Duran Duran and a-ha on A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights.
But what are the Bond themes that could, maybe should have been? Here are 10 suggestions.