Mama’s Boys

High schools should be abolished, because most young people are decimated and destroyed in them.  An elite boarding school. Four members of the future elite together in one room. Mama’s boys. Stolen money sets in motion a spiral of dominance, humiliation, manipulation, terror and abuse, all based on religious, moral and economic ideologies.  Mama’s Boys is a play inspired by Robert Musil’s novel The Confusions of Young Törless, the autobiography of Thomas Bernhard, Gathering Evidence and the short stories of Reiner Maria Rilke.

About the Company

Tygr v tísni (Tiger in Need) is an independent theatre group focused on the adaptation of non-dramatic texts and authorial theatre. The group originated at the Theatre Faculty of Performing Arts (DAMU) in Prague, where it was established by director Ivo Kristián Kubák and dramaturg Marie Nováková. One of Tygr v tísni’s most famous projects was the first large scale immersive performance in the Czech republic, Golem.  The director of Mama’s Boys, Tomáš Loužný, is now in his final year of studies at the Theatre Academy (DAMU) in Prague. He is also a playwright and translator.

A folk puppet play.

Go For It, Honey! was created as part of the project “Puppet Statue – Theatre Park”, initiated by Professor Stanislav Bohadlo in collaboration with the festival THEATRUM KUKS.

About the Company

Geisslers Hofcomoedianten were founded in Kuks in 2002 with the establishment of the THEATRUM KUKS festival of baroque art. Since then, they have created thirty full-length and shorter productions, earned the recognition of audiences and critics, visited a number of festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad (including a month-long tour of the United States) and founded the Festival of Castle and Cloister Theatres. Since 2014, the island theatre VILA Štavnice has been their home stage in Prague.