Tantehorse: Invisible I./Hannah
Tantehorse: Invisible I./Hannah The performance takes place in HaDivadlo, Alfa arcade, Poštovská 8d Wednesday 27. November at 7.30 p.m. An autobiographical performance about the extraordinary actress and singer Hana Frejková as an archaeology of her personal past Between slightly dusty stand-up and quiet metaphorical images, the story of the search for one's own place in the world is told, the story of the undying energy of a woman who involuntarily became the heroine of an ancient tragedy, but still did not give up. About a woman who is resolving her relationship with her mother, striving for her career, trying to have a cohesive family where parents and children function, and last but not least, she is eager to make a name for herself in the last period of her life! In a dialogue with dancer Markéta Jandová, sound designer Martin Tvrdý and director Miřenka Čechová, Hana Frejková delves into memories of her childhood, of involuntary exclusivity, and comments with wit on the position of an ageing woman - an artist for whom theatre brings one of the most important meanings of life. Hana Frejková was born in London, where her parents emigrated just before the beginning of World War II. Her father, Ludvík Frejka, an economist (original name Ludwig Freund), came from an assimilated Jewish family in Liberec. His mother, Elisabeth Frejka, an actress (née Elisabeth Henke-Warnholtz), came from a wealthy merchant family in Hamburg. In 1952, Ludvík Frejka was sentenced to death and executed in a mock trial with Rudolf Slánský. Hana and her mother had to leave Prague and were moved to the borderlands. In 2007, Hana Frejková published an autobiographical book, Divný kořeny, in which she openly talks about her own youth and acting beginnings, including her experiences with drugs and alcohol. She tells about the extraordinary fate of her parents in the turbulent post-war era. Tickets (320,-/220,-) available at HaDivadlo. photo: Vojtěch Brtnický
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