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Shadow Casters: "Vacation from History" @ AKCENT Festival, Prague

Time:       November 16 2013 @ 6pm and 10pm
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                November 17 2013 @ 6pm and 10pm
Location:  ARCHA Theatre, Na Porići 26, Prague 1, Czech Republic

A Vacation From History is a magical journey unfolding on the border between dream and reality in which the audience – deprived of the usual theatrical ritual and spectator’s distance – takes part with their entire being.

A Vacation from History is also a multimedia theatre performance in which the Shadow Casters re-establish a new synergy with the audience each time it is performed, making each performance unique in content. This work represents the final stage of a four-year-long trilogy dedicated to Kafka. The journey we are offered in Vacation from History is a passive and serene one, almost melancholic, as it gives space to each of the spectators to see a part of his/her own forgetfulness. The performance has several phases, none of which is fixed, and which are more an instruction to instigate memory or self-reflection than a rounded segment. Vacation from History is a meta(physical) comment on Kafka’s work: a travel to the edge of collective and individual consciousness, through the realms of dream and death as the only safe refuges from history.

Vacation from History, has been so far presented by international theater festivals in Croatia and abroad: Zagreb, Pula, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Subotica, Maribor and Cluj and was awarded: Special Jury Prize BITEF 2009, the 2008 "Avaz dragon" Award at the 48th MESS Festival, 2010 “Cloud” Main Award of the 16th Pula International Festival PUF.

Concept: Boris Bakal
Script, Directing: Boris Bakal, Katarina Pejovic
Dramaturgy: Katarina Pejovic, Bakal Boris
Authors and performers: Damir Klemenic, Lopatic Jelena, Bojan Navojec, Marija Škaričić, Stanko Juzbasic, Katarina Pejovic, Boris Bakal
Collaborators: Sinisa Jakovcevic, Zeljko Zorica, Barbara Blasin, Stephen Filipec, Milan Žerjav, Miran Juric


Shadow Casters is a multi award-winning and critically acclaimed international artistic and production platform for interdisciplinary collaboration, creativity and reflection on inter-media art from Zagreb. Working with public urban space through various art interventions and projects is one of the main areas on which their work is focused. Since their founding in 2002 they have realized numerous projects, among which: Shadow Casters, the trilogy Process_City (Process in Progress, Exposition, Vacation From history), Man is Space: Vitic Dances, Re-Collecting City/Re-Collecting Time, the Trilogy on Togetherness (Explicit Contents, ®evolution: Master Class, Male-Female/ Female-Male) and Parafernaliae. For their work they have received numerous awards including two Special Jury Prizes at BITEF, the MESS Avaz Dragon and two main prizes at PUF Festival.
www.shadowcasters.blogspot.com

Tour is organized with the help of Croatian Ministry for Culture and Zagreb City Council for Culture, Education and Sport

"The performance question classical position of spectator, play with perception limits and enrich visitor on sensorial level, changing perception by using the space of intimacy."

The explanation of Jury after Bitef 2009 Special Award acknowledgment for “Vacation from HIstory” by Shadow Casters:

Patrice Pavis (France), Oliver Frljic (Croatia), Maja Pelevic (Serbia), Ronald Schimmelpfennig (Germany) & Vladimir Aleksic (Serbia/Italia) 

NEW SCHEDULED PERFORMANCES:

Vacation from history @ IETM Plenary Meeting in Zagreb (October, 25-28) 

October 26 2012 @ 7 pm,  
October 27 2012 @ 11am, 
at the Jedinstvo Hall, Trnjanski nasip bb, Zagreb, Croatia 

The performance Vacation from History by Shadow Casters will be presented to national and international attendants and collaborators of the IETM (International network for contemporary performing arts, Zagreb, October25-28) plenary session on October 26th at 7pm.

Show can host only 52 spectators so BOOK NOW your bed!


TOUR 2010/2011 SUCESSES:

Great success of the show on INTERFERENCES, International Theater Festival in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

We played  at December 3rd, 2010 - Casa Tranzit - @ 14.30h (2.30 pm) and 20.30h (8.30 pm)

December 20th & 21st, 2010 - DCK Mosor - @ 20.00h (8.00 pm)

Zagreb, Croatia - Zvonimirova str- 63

Last shows in 2010!!!

***We were guest on 45. Maribor Theatre Festival in special program intitled Bridges on October 17th with two performances: @ 16h (4pm) and 22h (10pm)

 ***VACATION FROM HISTORY (process_city 01) was @ PUF, International Theatre Festival Pula, 
July 5th (18:30 & 22.30h) and won main festival award CLOUD.

Thanks to everybody who joined us in whichever way - we are expecting you also in the future!



TOUR SUCCESS IN THIS SEASON (2009/2010):

2. Performances of VACATION FROM HISTORY  at Desiré Central Station 2009 - West in Subotica,
November 27 at 17h and 21h
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3.Performances on 5th Croatian theatre SHOWCASE,
November 5 – 9, 2009.

VACATION FROM HISTORY
November 7, at 11 pm
Cinema Mosor, Zvonimirova street 63

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4. Perforations – week of live art
Dubrovnik, September 25 – 27, 2009 & Zagreb, September 28 – 30, 2009

VACATION FROM HISTORY
September 29, 2009 in Zagreb,
Cinema Mosor, Zvonimirova street 63

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5. **Performances of VACATION FROM HISTORY were performed at 43. BITEF in Belgrade, September 20 & 21, 2009.  at 17h and 23h***

International juri of Bitef Festivale gave our show  Special Price for investigation in theater and performance language.

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