Our theatre group calls Ježek a čížek and we work with people who have experience with homelessness, whether ongoing or already overcome.

Every year we also host the international festival of homeless theatres Hic sunt leones.

The 4th international festival of homeless people theatre called HIC SUNT LEONES 2007 will take place 15th September 2007 on Babí léto v PL Bohnice in Prague (CR)

 Streets Alive Theatre Company (UK)

Streets Alive Theatre Company works with young people between 16 and 25 years old who find themselves in a housing crisis, chaotically moving from hostel to hostel, chance accomodations, or directly on the street. The Theatre was founded by Patrick Young in 1998 with the help of the National Theatre in London. It attempts to empower young people to take control of their lives and get off the street. To accomplish this they use acting and theatrical techniques as tools for creating self-confidence. These young people face up to the required commitments as well as their own personal problems and it is astounding that through their participation in the work of Streets Alive they feel so empowered that they are capable of changing their lives.

 Don´t Go There – short stories from the author´s workshop of members of the theatre

direction: Denise Wong

The play consists of two short pieces of forum theatre, the first part looking at drug use and peer pressure, while the second one focuses on gang culture, bullying and knife crime.

 Aha Színpad Drama Group (HU)

The AHA Drama Group has been working for six years as an amateur drama group.

The founding of the company was preceded by a Christmas celebration in 2001 when the workers of the Homeless Hostel of the Hungarian Red Cross staged a festive programme for the occupants of the institute. The programme was compiled from poems, and after it our group was formed from homeless and ex-homeless people with the management of Mr. Sándor Füsti-Molnár, the artistic director. One of our aims is putting an exclamation mark in front of the society, i.e. art, as such, can be reached by anyone and anyone is able to perform nice productions, even if they have several handicaps and they are at the edge of the society. We think that although playing itself cannot solve the problem of homelessness, it can help these people rejoin the society, solve their problems and communicate.

During these six years we played several plays from several genres from tales and comedies to tragedies and took part in several drama festivals and competitions where we won nice awards. In 2006 we started to build new relationships with other homeless theatres in Europe and with Örkény’s Let’s Learn Languages we opened a new horizon for our work: we acted it out not only in Hungarian but also in English with cooperation of the Czech homeless theatre Ježek a Čižek and together won a silver medal at theatre festival in Vasvar in april 2007.

László Kálnoky: The King Is Dying direction Tato adresa je chráněna proti spamování, pro její zobrazení potřebujete mít Java scripty povoleny

This story is a parody of Shakespeare’s royal tragedies. The whole text is something like series of puns and flummery, where the majority of words are not real existing words, although grammatically they behave like real Hungarian words. This way, even Hungarian audience can’t understand the text itself, better to say, it makes sense by the intonation and acting. There are a lot of comicality of situations. The parody talks about love triangles, betrayals and intrigues, ignorant king, insincere queen and false friends.

The plot is in King Henry XIX’s royal residence, where the sick king and his wife, Henriette XIX are listening to Lord Downtard, the unfaithful and treacherous henchman, who reports about the conspiracies and and intrigues that impend over the safety of the country.At the end of the play everybody gains his or her punishment, there is a lot of murder and blood…

http://www.madridi.hu/ikreator/hlt/cms_pub/content_41-hu.html

Ratten 07 (DE)

The theatre group Ratten 07 was started in 1992 as the first fully homeless theatre in Germany. In reaction to the tour that Ratten 07 put on in the following years, a number of similar institutions sprang up across Germany. In the beginning Ratten 07 dealt mostly with improvisation and making use of the experiences and personal texts of its performers. In recent years they have however added a number of classical theatrical plays to their repertoire. In contrast to the Czech group Ježek a čížek or the Slovak Nota bene, who started as an affiliated activity for sellers of homeless periodicals, Ratten 07 came about in the opposite manner. They began as a theatre project and only later became a social project. The Berlin Rats 07 won a prize from the Berliner Akademie der Künste in 1995.

Eugen Ionesco: Nashoerner / Rhinoceros – directed by Christine Kostermann

Theatre of the Absurd from 1958. "I am the last man. I shall stay that way until the end. I am not capitulating.“ are the final words of the play's principle character Bérenger in a situation where all the town's inhabitants have turned into rhinoceroses.

http://www.ratten07.de/

Kunsthaus Sananim (CZ)

Kunsthaus is a loose arts-oriented association of clients and friends of the SANANIM treatment centre. This loose association of fanatic artists, photographers and theatre folk is in its seventh year of existence. Over this time a number of art and photography exhibitions as well as many theatrical performances have taken place under the heading "Kunsthaus", achieving remarkable public response. 

Václav Havel: The Beggar's Opera – directed by Miroslav Drábek

The path to power in direct transmission.

www.sananim.cz

Theatre Ježek a čížek works with people who have experience with homelessness, whether ongoing or already overcome. Through theatre and theatrical activities they offer people without a home the possibility to participate creatively in cultural events. They have been operating in Prague since the year 2000 and during that time more than 300 actors have passed through their ensemble, studying 13 different productions. Aside from classical stage productions Ježek a čížek organises various site-specific projects, performances in public spaces, etc. Every year they also host the international festival of homeless theatres Hic sunt leones.

Faust on Petřín in Bohnice – a summer dramatization of the story of Dr. Faust with live music from New Kids Underground.

režie / direction: Jakub Čapka, Marek Střížovský

http://www.jezekacizek.cz/content/view/20/69/

 we are preparing:

Ingrid Lausund: Slipped Disc: a study of the upright walk

directed by Jiří Honzírek

Kreztky cries. Kristensen fumes. Kruse laughs. Schmitt contrives. Huffschmidt doesn't win. Managers on the assembly line.

The fresh and constantly-filling troupe of this theatre is at the beginning of finding its own poetics. Their first challenge in finding themselves is mastering language and dialogue on stage. The textual score of this young German playwright opens up such a space with her craftful bravado. Lausund challenges us to a partnership, to learn to respect the individuality of our stagemates, and to the intrepidity to express ourselves out loud.

For theatre of the homeless the play offers enormous dramatic potential. The play is about uprooted, morally base, and indentity-switching managers. Ingrid Lausund's words thus paradoxically in our mouths reveal a person first and foremost as a fragile creature clinging to simple things, and only afterwards as the subject of a given social institution.