GÄRTEN*: Saga of Traffic Lights and Dirt

A theatrical walk through the Kappler Hang allotment gardens / Starting point: Garage Campus

Beyond seven crossroads and nine parking lots…
Where asphalt crumbles into forgotten paths. Places that are neither city nor nature. A tale that is neither myth nor reality. Beings who are not gods, yet not cyborgs either. Somewhere in between.

GÄRTEN*: Saga of Traffic Lights and Dirt is an invitation into a world that has exhaled and remained. You cannot return to Eden. But you can step into other gardens. Not perfect, but possible. Entwined with the memory of the first apricot’s ripeness. With the whisper of its inhabitants. With song. With silence. And with the Soil that binds them all together.

An experience created not for admiration, but simply to be. Without perfection. Without haste. Only slowly. Deeply.

Note: The route follows unpaved and narrow paths, so it is not suitable for wheelchairs or strollers.

PRODUCTION TEAM

GARDENER: Kateřina Jebavá
THRESHOLD BEING: Pavla Kopřivová

From the recording:
SOIL: Vojtěch Franců
TREE and WATERING CAN: Kateřina Černá
GNOME: Štěpán Gajdošík

AUTHORS: Jakub Štrba, Jiří Kolář
DIRECTOR: Jakub Štrba
DRAMATURGY: Jiří Kolář
SET DESIGN: Jiří Kolář, Karolína Mikulášková
MUSIC and SOUND DESIGN: Jakub Kraus
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Dan Pavlík
TRANSLATION: Jan Trna

The production incorporates fragments of the poem Posthumanist Prayer by Darina Alster, drawing on texts by Astrida Neimanis, Donna Haraway, Ed Roberson, and Jan Matýsek.