Floor
I
Twenty
Years of Diversity
The
Diversity Theatre (Divadlo rozmanitostí), the puppet scene of
the Municipal Theatre in Most, will be celebrating the twentieth
year of its existence in 2007. This exhibition is a part of the
recapitulation of its activities to date. It is not intended to
be a mono-thematic summary of the graphic aspects of its productions
but a varied contemplation of the different styles of scenography
and the techniques of manipulating the puppets -from the hand-puppet
theatre and marionettes to mannequins. The pleiad of puppet artists
( such as Žátková, Stejskalová, Hejmovský, Kalfus, Matásek, Bauer,
Milfajt ) placed their own unique style of the theatre and that
is what inserted the word diversity into its name. In addition
to documentation through photographs, there are puppets from various
productions to show all that happened along that twenty-year road.
(Opened from January 15, 2007 till December 30, 2007) (photogallery)
Floor
II
The Old Trouper & Puppets (a portrait of the artist Pavela
Kalfus)
(born
in Hořice v Podkrkonoší in 1942). He studied at the School of
Sculpture in Hořice (1956-60), then stage design at the Department
of Puppetry at DAMU (University of Dramatic Arts) in Prague under
Professor R. Lander (1961-65). He then became stage director in
the DRAK (Dragon) Theatre in Hradec Králové (1965-74). Between
1974 and 1993 he was active in the Naivní divadlo (Naive Theatre)
in Liberec. In addition, he was employed externally with all Czech
puppet theatres and worked with several theatres abroad (Slovakia,
Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Slovenia). Since 1993, he has been
teaching stage design at the Department of Alternative and Puppet
Theatre at DAMU in Prague. He holds the view that a puppet can
have any form, even abstract. It purpose will be supplied by the
actor, who fills it with a human content and behaviour.
(Opened from January 15, 2007, till December 30, 2007) (photogallery)
Floor
III
New Additions to the Museum collections
One
of the principle functions of the Museum is to gather new exhibits,
to care for them, to place them in their historic and thematic
context, and to display them to the public. The exhibition shows
a selection of new additions to the collections since 2000, when
a range of interesting exhibits have been obtained (purchase or
gift), including some puppets from other countries. Thus, the
collection of Czech puppetry has been enriched both by Czech traditional
marionettes from the turn of the 19th -20th century and also by
puppets from small family theatres of serial production, puppets
from professional and amateur theatres, as well as stage designs,
photographs and archive material.
(Opened from January 15, 2007, till December 30, 2007)(photogallery)
