Blood Hygiene
Statements of murderers and victims. On the stage: metal puppets, scrap iron, barbed wire.
Written and directed by:Pavla Dombrovská and co.
Dramaturgic adviser: Kateřina Slámová Bartošová
Puppets and stage design: Luděk Vémola, Iveta Kalousková
Music: Tomáš Vtípil
Light design and screening: Tomáš Tušer
For adults 15+
Duration: 60 minutes
Technical specification
- Duration: 1 hour
- Stage dimensions: 6 x 6 x 4 m (width x depth x height)
- Setup time: 3 hours
- Disassembly time: 2 hours
- Darkness and silence needed
- Audience risers, stage not elevated
- Electricity 400V/16A
- Max audience limit: 100
About performance
A play inspired by statements and memories from those who were affected by the Holocaust, and also by documents from that period, speeches made by Nazi leaders, and texts found on current militant neo-Nazi websites.
„A restricted form of propagation is an almost rigid basic law of all the innumerable forms of expression of Nature’s vital urge! Every animal mates only with a member of the same species. The titmouse seeks the titmouse, the field mouse the field mouse, the stork the stork.” (A. Hitler: Mein Kampf)
„Before I go out of this world, I want to leave a few lines to you, my dears. If you ever receive this letter, me and all of us will be already gone…“ (from the letter, which an unknown woman had sewn up into her dress before she was murdered by Nazis)
At Skupa Plzeň Festival 2016 Blood Hygiene was awarded the prize for “stage design and imaginative use and animation of objects”.
It takes place as a part of The Provoking Theater Project. Supported by Funds EHP 2014-2021.
