Love can move mountains, but what does passion do to people? If you don’t want to lose your heart, get out of the kitchen! A saucy comedy full of forest fruit and lovesick animals, inspired by the play La Mirtilla (1588), the first surviving pastoral written by famous actress and writer Isabella Andreini. In the Blueberry Bushes is the third part of the dramaturgic cycle Opus Andreini.
About the Company
Geisslers Hofcomeoedianten originated in 2002 in Kuks, on the occasion of the founding of the THEATRUM KUKS festival of baroque art. Since then, they have created thirty full-length and shorter productions, won accolades from audiences and critics alike, visited a number of festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad (including a month’s tour in the USA) and founded the touring Festival of Castle and Monastery Theatres. Since November 2014, their Prague home stage has been the island theatre VILA Štvanice.
Venue
The Vila Štvanice cultural space is found on one of Prague’s islands. It is home to three resident companies with distinct dramaturgies: Tiger v tísni, with an emphasis on authorial and immersive theatre; Geisslers Hofcomoedianten, with a taste for comic, secular opera; and Divadlo Letí, which is concerned with contemporary themes.
genres
Interdisciplinary
THEATRE / COMPANY
Geisslers Hofcomoedianten
CZECH NAME
V borůvčí
AUTHOR
Isabella Andreini, Geisslers
DIRECTION
Petr Hašek
CHOREOGRAPHY
Martin Talaga
MUSIC
David Hlaváč, Petr Šmíd
INTERPRETATION
Eva Burešová, Claudia Eftimiadisová, Aleš Pospíšil, Petr Šmíd, Bartoloměj Veselý
DRAMATURGY
Helena Kebrtová
STAGE DESIGN
Jitka Nejedlá
COSTUME DESIGN
Jitka Nejedlá
LENGTH OF THE PERFORMANCE
67 minutes
NUMBER OF TRAVELLING PERSONS
10
LANGUAGE
Czech, No language barrier