Dates
| 18.04.2025 / 19:00 |
Information
Based on Palestinian artist Karim Shaheen’s true story, War Maker is a voyage into Karim’s dreams and delusions. With the mise-en-scene as a resonance chamber, the audience gets engaged with Karim’s point of view straight from the show’s beginning. War Maker is a multidisciplinary theatre performance that blends visual art, new media with documentary and object theatre.
Having lived within an ongoing exile, Karim’s life is standing at the crossroads where the performance itself mirrors his broken war memories. When his friend lost his arm during the Gulf War, Karim the child, whose life was shaped by three wars even more, became interested in the Silver screen, especially sci-fi movies. In different countries he arrived to, a war took place. Was he a War Maker?
~
Cast:
Director: Husam Abed
Dramaturge: Marek Turošik
Art director: Astrid Mendez
Stage designer: Katarina Cakova, Astrid Mendez
Choreography: Ryuji Yamaguchi
Sound and Light design: Matej Vejdelek
Film & editing: Reka Deak, Dmitri Berzon
On stage: Husam Abed, Matej Vejdělek
Thanks to Kristýna Břeská
With the support of Arab Fund for Art and Culture (AFAC/Beirut), Atelier Libusin, Capital City of Prague, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, State Fund for Culture of the Czech Republic, City District of Prague 7 – Art District, Alfred ve Dvore, Moment Maribor
Husam Abed is a Palestinian Jordanian theatre director, puppeteer, musician and producer, who lives in the Czech Republic. He is undertaking a PhD study at Bath Spa University in the UK, researching objects for refugees’ visibility. He holds a Master of Directing for Alternative and Puppet Theatre at DAMU, Czech Republic. He is a co-founder of Dafa Puppet Theatre/Czech Republic. He is performing and leading theatre and puppetry projects for children and youth in many countries. He is directing theatre performances, collaborating with artists from many nations. His performances are invited in regular basis to international festivals in Europe, Arab world, Hong Kong and Macao. He is a co-founder of Hazaart and LIV’in festival in the city of Prague, a member of Amman Theatre Lab., a board member of Sawiyan, a curator of IDEA (International Dance Encounter Amman), a member of Karama Film Festival for Human Rights in Jordan.
Matěj Vejdělek has been an active member of Dafa Puppet Theatre since January 2021. He holds a Master of Drama Acting at Theatre Faculty of Performing Arts (DAMU) in Prague in 2018. In Dafa he is the lead technician of light, sound and multimedia, a performer and musician. Matej was invited to become a member of Dafa on the basis of their previous cooperation (light and sound engineering performances of Dafa Puppet Theatre) among Divadlo Continuo Festival. He joined Dafa Puppet Theatre during the creative devised process of staging their performance War Maker as a performer and lead technician. He is a dedicated, passionate and talented artist who explores finding new possibilities in staging and performing within given circumstances. As a light and sound engineer, since 2008 he has been involved with Stage Lab. s.r.o. in their (theatre and concert venues, festivals, site-specific projects). He also contributed to the light and sound engineering of international Continuo Theatre between 2018 and 2020, in their productions: WarDrobe, Please leave a message, Mea Culpa etc. He is a second lead A/V technician in the Centre for Architecture and Urban Planning in Prague since 2019 until now
Photo: Estelle Valente and Martin Špelda
Location: Community Center Žižkostel (nám. Barikád 1520, Žižkov, 130 00 Praha 3)