Ord of the Lies

The Devil Wears Slippers

To wear a bathrobe all day. To cancel curfew. To discontinue medication. Or, at least, to stop taking it according to the weekly organizer. To swap dentures with your neighbor. To eat ten puddings for a snack. And even right in bed.

After all the caregivers stop coming to the assisted living facility, it becomes an abandoned island for the elderly where anything is allowed. The collapse of order opens the possibility to establish new regimes. Is it possible not to get drunk on freedom when you have long since buried it within yourself? Is it possible to believe in better tomorrows when you have no certainty that you'll even wake up to them? Or will evil eventually awaken in each of us?

Members of Studio 60+, an amateur senior theatre group founded at the Goose on a String Theatre, are diving into the depths of author theatre for the second time. This time, inspired by William Golding's famous work about and for youth, they will present their own old adult grotesque about our tribal need for a common enemy. If it is necessary to choose a chief, should it really be the oldest one? Or does the one who holds the remote control rule?

Dalibor Buš (1989), after graduating from JAMU in Nika Brettschneider's studio, secured a position at the Goose on a String Theatre, which remains his home stage to this day. In 2022, he received the Thalia Award for an actor under 33 years old. In addition to acting, he also works as an improviser, healthcare clown, university lecturer, and last but not least, as a director. He directed, for example, the children’s opera Little Mozart at the South Bohemian Theatre, which won the South Bohemian Thalia Award for the most popular production of 2022. His directorial work is characterized by exploring interactivity and immersion within purely original projects.

Jiří Havelka (1980) is one of the most interesting and versatile personalities of contemporary Czech theatre and film: a director, playwright, actor, presenter, and former head of the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre of the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. His original and award-winning productions frequently stem from collective improvisation, proving time and again that he is no stranger to complex and sensitive social issues and surprising theatrical forms. He returns to the Goose on a String Theatre after his successful productions Gadjos Go To Heaven (2020) and Smokeout (Theatre Newspaper Award for Production of the Year 2022).