MISS AMERIKA / DFKH 2019
Performance will take place on the fifth Theatre Festival in Kutná Hora.
CONCEPT Miřenka Čechová, Martin Tvrdý
MUSIC Martin Tvrdý
TEXT, PERFORMED BY Miřenka Čechová aka Mckenzie Tomski
PHOTOGRAPHS Vojtěch Brtnický
ANIMATION Martin Tvrdý
COMICS Chin Yew
DRAMATURGY OF THE SHOW Petr Boháč
DRAMATURGY OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT Barbora Baronová
DIRECTORIAL COOPERATION Jacquelyn de Villiers
LIGHT DESIGN Karel Šimek
COSTUME OF WONDER WOMAN Eva Judová
The story of a woman who’s fallen in love with a city to which she is a stranger.
Mckenzie Tomski is a New York misfit, an unobtrusive, yet self-confessed starer. Mckenzie is a queen of virtual loneliness in the same way as Wonder Woman without high boots and legal status. She is a creature of liquid identity, disrupting American clichés with ironical, dark and uncompromising humor. Mckenzie comes from a line of outcasts, stray people, those who are standing in shadows, in the gray zone, and dreaming their American dream, that one day they will “prove themselves”.
The multimedia project of Miřenka Čechová and Martin Tvrdý presents a crude image of life on Manhattan via a collage of music, text, rap, slam, stand-up, performance, photographs by Vojtěch Brtnický and the comics by Malayan cartoonist Chin Yew. The symbiosis of all those components creates an authentic story of a woman who’s fallen in love with a city to which she is a stranger.
The project is based on a book by Miřenka Čechová Miss AmeriKa, published in July 2018 in the publishing house wo-men.
Thanks to the photographer Jana Hunterová for the photos from New York subway.
Project manager: Barbora Repická, Ludmila Vacková
International booking: Tereza Havlíčková
Production: Petra Hanzlíková
Co-producer: Palác Akropolis
Partners: Dans Brabant (NL), Moving Station, Divadlo Drak
Supported by: Hlavní město Praha, MKČR.
