What if while looking in the eyes of disaster we could still tell each other beautiful stories and play games? The future is difficult to imagine. Models and paradigms are failing.

 

Let me explain to you what is going on.
Let me help you to look into the future.
I need you to listen cause I need to understand myself what are the perspectives and what are we facing.
I need to understand so that I can explain it to my daughter.

Are we confronted with a possible collapse of our society or of our civilization?
Will the collapse shut down the future ahead? Or open an infinity of others?
Are the eyes of an octopus green?
Am I the mother I want to be?
Can a robot tell a story?
How could I prepare my daughter for the unknown?
Which color do I prefer? Blue or pink?

So let’s start from the beginning, from nothing, from point zero.
Let’s give it a try and play again and again and again etc.

 

In her original piece, together with Lukáš Karásek, French performer and dancer Cécile Da Costa answers her nine-year-old daughter Thelma's questions, which can be both childishly naive and surprisingly serious.

Family friendly performance is suitable for children aged eight and over. Czech, French and English are used. It’s not necessary to speak all three languages to enjoy the performance. Basics of one are enough.

 

Post-show playground

Adults and parents, we all know the unpleasant situation of an urgent work to do, important emails to be sent while having our children requiring our full attention. When each needs to express their own priorities and feelings, where is the point of balance?

Come and share a playful moment with your children through games and movements. It will take place in the atmosphere and set up of the performance Zero etc. after it's finished. We will give you and your children the possibility to express yourself and discover basic principles of physical theatre.

Length: 20 minutes
Lectors: Cécile Da Costa, Lukáš Karásek and Thelma Anouk Da Costa

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Cécile Da Costa 
Prague-based singer, performer and choreographer of French-Portuguese origin. She has performed in performances of Farm in the Cave company, of which she had been a member for five years, and now she has been cooperating for several years with Spitfire Company. She leads physical theatre workshops in the Czech Republic, France, Poland or Greece. In her work she seeks “voices that can move the body and bodies that can move the voice”. For her solo performance The Narrator, directed by Petr Boháč, won the Dancer of the Year 2018 award or the nomination for „Total Physical award“ at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017. Her first author work is the solo Roselyne (2019), which was selected as one of three Czech productions to Twenty21 by Aerowaves – a selection of 20 top works of 2021 in the field of physical theatre.