12/29/2023 0 Comments Marek vimr![]() ![]() From play Swing Returns or About Happiness (2016) Ondřej Zicha has been the theatre’s own scenic designer since 2016.īesides Karel Novák and Miroslav Kořínek, the musical part of Studio Ypsilon’s production has attracted over time Marek Eben, Vladimír Kratina, Jiří Schmitzer, Jan Jiráň, Dominik Renč, Jiří Bulis, Svatopluk Jányš, Vratislav Šrámek, Ľubica Salamon-Čekovská, Zdeněk Dočekal and others. Scenic designers that should be mentioned here include Jaroslav Malina and Miroslav Melena, as well as Jan Schmid, also Vratislav Habr, Pavel Nešleha, Helena Anýžová, Jiří Benda, Irena Greifová, Šárka Havlíčková, Jana Břežková, Mona Hafsahl, Jana Sováková, Vladimír Němeček, Petra Goldflamová Štětinová, Jan Bažant, Maxim Velčovský, Nikola Tempír, Karel Čapek, etc., (people cooperating with the studio on its graphics included Adam Hoffmeister, Bohumil Franc, and currently Vladimír Vimr). Numerous major artists have taken part in or continue to be associated with Ypsilon in some manner: these include (not only) actors, such as Karel Novák, Zuzana Schmidová, Jitka Nováková, Miloš Bílek, Eva Zapletalová, Bohuslav Maršík, Vojtěch Ron, Jan Vala, Dagmar Bláhová, Josef Fučík, Martin Kadeřávek, Luděk Sobota, Petr Popelka, Bronislav Poloczek, Marie Durnová, Rostislav Novák, Pavel Havránek, Jiří Wimmer, Petr Kratochvíl, Ada Kohuth, Julek Neumann, Ondřej Havelka, Oldřich Kaiser, Nika Brettschneiderová, Jan Panenka, Milada (Janderová) Kratochvílová, Ladislav Gerendáš, Miloš Nesvadba, Vlastimil Peška, Světlana Nálepková, Kateřina Lírová, Miroslav Vladyka, Luboš Zajíček, Luba Skořepová, Jiří Schmitzer, Vladimír Kratina, Ivana Chýlková, Lenka Termerová, Jan Vondráček, Jana Sováková, Martin Myšička, Jan Stříbrný, Jiří Laštovka, Lenka Novotná, Jitka Schneiderová, Vendulka Kafková, Josef Zíma, Mikuláš Čížek, Barbora Vyskočilová and many others, as well as the theatrical reviewer, theorist and literary manager Zdeněk Hořínek or the art historian Bohumil Nuska. And the extra specific: orientation noticeable at the first sight, typically playful visual image created for Studio Ypsilon by Schmid from the very start. in equality to and cooperation with other expressive elements of the theatrical work. It is produced live on stage with a methodical and comprehensive approach: it is part of the work as a whole, i.e. While visuality is the cornerstone of the theatrical work at Ypsilon, music also plays a major role. Humour is omnipresent, always liberating and helping one to stay on top of things. His elementary metaphoric way of perceiving and thinking is characterised by the notion of inconclusiveness of all things occurring repeatedly in the state of inception and thus giving rise to a constant contradiction in the world perceived again and again in new contexts as well as transversally, while always discovering aspects common to all.Īdditional characteristics that keep contributing to the definition of the theatre’s personality and character: synthesis, expression, communicativeness, authenticity, and humour. Therefore: the theatre is organic matter giving rise to the unmistakable style of Studio Ypsilon with a concept driven from the beginning by Jan Schmid’s personality (the founder, director, author, visual artist, literary manager, and actor). Initial concept: theatre as a cultivated garden, as a live and diversely structured entity controlled by natural principles and the rules of life, existence, and growth, similarly to the nature. ![]() Key prerequisite for everybody on the stage: being able to participate in a continuously changing entity. The work is organised as a dynamic structure: open and moving. The theatre fosters a playful principle and deliberately works with directed chance, unfinishedness and indeterminacy, as well as acting fluidly shifting between the depicted character and the actor’s own self. Improvisation is used as an open way of perceiving the world and an opportunity for adding often diverse initiatives of all producers and members of the theatre company throughout all stages of the creative process. Since its establishment, Ypsilon has applied a systematically developed creative method of group improvisation. It is a theatre with its distinctive poetics proven in time and labelled as “uniquely Czech” by foreign reviewers. Although the authors’ theatre has recently celebrated its fifty-seventh anniversary, it does not seem to age. Today, it is one of the leading Czech theatre companies with a major mark in the history, development, and the current shape of the Czech theatre. The Studio Ypsilon Theatre (informally known as “Ypsilonka”) was established in Liberec in 1963.
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