About project
Laterna magika and Signal Festival present a theatre and dance production by Miřenka Čechová composed for the courtyard of the Clam-Gallas Palace. The viewer is drawn into the play as a passenger waiting on the platform and has the opportunity to record the characters’ stories through the limited perspective of the windows of the passing trains. The fleeting and framed glimpse of the situations creates a sense of chance, suspense, voyeurism and fatality. It draws us into the characters’ private moments and invites us to co-create the story through our own experience and imagination. The train here is a metaphor for the pulsation of time. It represents the knowledge of life, with all its twists and turns, as well as encounters with an uncertain future. The passing world outside the train window is all that we cannot or do not want to see in the rush of life. But who is able to stop, concentrate and see the meaning in their own finitude?
How many times in your life have you overheard a snippet of conversation, glimpsed a brief segment of a meeting, a fragment of a situation or someone’s perspective that has stuck in your mind and then triggered an avalanche of images unfolding a sequel? The fragments of actions and lives that have been thrown our way for a few seconds become the imaginary fellow travelers we meet on our life’s journey. They have been given names and stories, but they are ephemeral and changeable, like a glimpse of a face in the window of a passing train.
The performance starts every day at 7pm and repeats every 20 minutes. Special for Signal VIP, the performance will take place every festival night from 6:30pm.
