Czech "La Putyka" at Sydney Festival
16.11.2011 / 04:20 | Aktualizováno: 16.11.2011 / 04:26
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Forceful and funny, powerful and poetic, this international award-winning contemporary circus is a dazzling exploration of a Czech pub, colourfully fusing acrobatics, dance, theatre, puppetry and live music.
Just as the French have their wine, the Czechs have their beer - and in this fantasy Czech bar closing time gets surreal.
With the glazed look of a sober pint, this highly original show throws up bar floozies, upstarts, loners, a pair of acrobatic beer-gutted old pensioners and other champions in their own idiosyncratic world.
Their stories, dreams and bar-side philosophies are spliced with inventive physical comedy and surprise theatrics, told with the force of an intoxicating fairy tale.
Applauded from Finland to China, La Putyka is new pub circus with an accomplished brew of action, poetry and laughter.