I’ll Make a Hole So I Can Stick Out of It

I’ll make a hole
so I can stick out of it
I wonder who will trip

I’ll Make a Hole So I Can Stick Out of It is an authorial object theatre production. A short poetic insight into natural processes, it offers quiet encounters and seeds of conflict in a community of objects: the Patrol, the Locomotive, the Pipe, the Whale, the Stand, the Forest Clearing, the Nest, Paws, several kinds of Ladles, three Antennae, the Prison, Berta, the Swing, the UFO, the Puddle, the Restless Eggs, and the Flower-Moon.

Where does the Forest Clearing go? How far does it spread?
How long does it take to fish the Nest out of a plugged Puddle?
How can you exchange a look with a Patrol who’s lost an eye?
The Pipe sings a lullaby, the Locomotive lives in the Prison, the Whale lays eggs and is a little upset. Do not disturb the Antennae. Catch a feather, prepare the kettle and – carefully now – we need to mark out a landing area for the Flower-Moon.

About the company

Berta Doubková is a scenographer and performer. She studied scenography in the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU), where she is currently finishing her master’s degree. In her work, she strives to explore her own approach to object performance and visual art, as well as contemporary puppet theatre.

The performance I’ll Make a Hole So I Can Stick Out of It (Alfred ve dvoře, 2024) follows her solo debut, The Field Is Not a Sea (MeetFactory, 2022). She also appears in The World Round the Corner (Studio Hrdinů, 2025) and the performance installation The Hustle and Bustle (REGIONS International Theatre Festival Hradec Králové) as a performing scenographer and artist.
She has collaborated with Studio Damúza, the FRAS collective and Naive Theatre Liberec on puppet theatre scenography. Her set design for the production The Red Balloon at Naive Theatre Liberec won awards at the Mateřinka Festival in Liberec, PIF Festival in Zagreb and the Czech 2024 Theatre Critics’ Awards in the category of Set Design of the Year.
She is a member and resident visual artist of the puppetry collective TMEL, where she most recently contributed to the production The Nest (2024).