1984
Oliver Ostermann/Anna Vita
A dystopian story based on George Orwell's famous work. more
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All the Beauty in the World
Jaroslav Seifert
The third event in the ‘Harmony’ series is dedicated to Jaroslav Seifert and (not only) his memoir *All the Beauty of the World*. Mácha seeks answers in tragic conflict and Hora in quiet meditation, whilst Seifert finds poetry in a careful observation of the world around him. more
Anna Pavlova
Jiří Pokorný
Anna Pavlova, a prima ballerina with an ethereal presence, is an icon of the ballet world. Her legacy spans the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, yet continues to resonate to this day. more
BIRDS OF A FEATHER (LA CAGE AUX FOLLES)
Jerry Herman / Harvey Fierstein
We are what we are! One of the most entertaining classical musicals of the last half-century will be performed in Pilsen for the first time. more
Boris Godunov
Modest Musorgskij
This operatic epic takes us back to a time when, following the death of Ivan the Terrible, Tsar of All Russia, the country found itself in a climate of power struggles and widespread chaos. The theme of one of the most evocative works in the world repertoire is the lust for power, which does not shy away from shameless manipulation of the masses or the shedding of blood. more
Company
Stephen Sondheim / George Furth
Get under the yoke of marriage or remain single? Will Robert find the answer to this question? An intelligent and entertaining musical with lively music, viewing relationships honestly and humorously. Can you recognise yourselves in any of the situations? more
Crutches and knives
Anita Augustin
Psychedelic road story of forever young old ladies. This dynamic grotesque, which has been dramatised by the author of the novel, presents four charming elderly ladies who are facing jail. more
Czech Christmas Mass
Jakub Jan Ryba
The Czech Christmas Mass by Jakub Jan Ryba has become an integral part of Czech Christmas celebrations. We can hear it in every church, in concert halls, we know it by heart; we love its pure simplicity. more
DR. KRONER’S MAGIC WATCH
Tomáš Javorský / Jan Kaňka
The extraordinary musical about the desire to stop time returns to the Small Stage! Winner of the first edition of the competition for original Czech musicals Intro ’21, it offers a mysterious story full of imagination and outstanding musical numbers. more
Dracula
Karel Svoboda / Zdeněk Borovec / Richard Hes
Who does not know hits like “You are my master” or “I know you are with me”? In the nearly thirty years since its creation, the original Czech musical, Dracula, loosely inspired by Bram Stoker's famous novel, has been seen by hundreds of thousands of viewers at home and abroad. more
Falkenštejn
Zdeněk Lukáš
The name of composer Zdeněk Lukáš has long been associated with Pilsen, where he worked for many years as a radio editor, choir director, and composer. The local environment had a profound influence on his artistic work. It is no exaggeration to say that he is the most frequently performed composer of the second half of the 20th century associated with our city. more
Heda
Henrik Ibsen / Dana Hlaváčová
When helplessness is more terrifying than death, love turns to hate and fragility to insensitive coldness. This Heda Is Not Dead and she won't give in to anyone or anything. A new adaptation based on Henrik Ibsen's play Heda Gabler about people who, in their desire for freedom, drive themselves into traps. more
I have an injured finger and the letters hurt me
Jan Skácel
The fourth and final event in the ‘Harmony’ series is dedicated to the poetry of Jan Skácel – a poet of silence and contemplation, but also the author of an outstanding adaptation of Sophocles’ *Oedipus*. more
Jacques and His Master
Milan Kundera
“Where did we come from? And where are we going? Do you even know where you’re headed?” Skeptical comedy. more
Jesus Christ Superstar
Tim Rice / Andrew Lloyd Webber
The legendary rock musical finally in Pilsen! Let yourselves be captivated by this phenomenal work, which has fascinated millions of viewers of several generations all over the world. more
La Bayadère
Ludwig Minkus / Michal Štípa
A love story in a grand romantic ballet set in the Orient, with captivating music and dazzling virtuosity more
Like raindrops we scattered across this wide, wide world
Josef Hora
In the second poetic gathering of the ‘Harmony’ series, the drama company will present the balladic poem *Jan the Fiddler*. In a meditation that is both contemplative and passionate, we return to the places that Jan called home. Now, however, he no longer recognises his own country. more
Long is my journey… Futile cry…
Karel Hynek Mácha
We open the “Harmony” series with the complex figure of Karel Hynek Mácha and his existential poem *Máj*. It is a poem about the tragic beauty of human existence—about the longing for love and freedom in a world that offers no definitive answers. more
Musician's Fairytale
Dalibor Bárta / Václav Bárta st.
The renewed premiere of a successful fairytale for children of all ages. Will princess Terezka from the Singing Kingdom escape the three-headed dragon and will there be a happy ending that every proper fairytale should have? more
My Fair Lady
Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe
Based on Pygmalion, a play by George Bernard Shaw and film by Gabriel Pascal Legendary musical back on DJKT stage more
Nutcracker
Petr Iljič Čajkovskij
A Christmas story and a dream about Prince Nutcracker and the Mice comes to life in our theatre at the time of the most festive time of the year. The new adaptation of the well-known classical ballet will celebrate the 130th anniversary since its first staging in the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre. more
One flew over...
Dustin Klein
One of the icons of American postmodern literature, Ken Elton Kesey, whose novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest won Forman's 1975 film of the same title five Oscars. more
Papageno in the enchanted forest
dle Wolfganga Amadea Mozarta
Mozart's opera The Magic Flute is undoubtedly the pinnacle of the composer's opera work. more
PHARAOH'S CURSE
Vojtěch Frank / Jakub Hojka
What can opera as a genre endure? And what would an opera about plundering the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun look like? Is it possible to look for comedy in this story? more
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
After many years, Shakespeare’s most famous play returns to the drama repertoire in a new production. It is a story of a love so great, so naive and yet so bold, that a world hardened by hatred can scarcely find a way to understand it. more
S.K.U.P.A.
Milan Šotek
We continue our dramaturgical line devoted to Plzeň’s cultural heritage and its important personalities. more
SISTER ACT
Alan Menken / Glenn Slater / Cheri a Bill Steinkellner
A divine musical comedy full of humor and unstoppable energy, based on the famous film with Whoopi Goldberg—set among nuns whose peaceful life is suddenly turned upside down! more
Six
Toby Marlow / Lucy Moss
The duel of Henry VIII's six wives as a raucous pop concert! After its success on West End and Broadway, the current global megahit is guaranteed to set the audience of the Velké divadlo (Grand Theatre) in Pilsen on fire. We will be one of the first theatres to present it on the European continent. more
Stories About a Dog and a Cat
Josef Čapek
Beloved tales of Dog and Cat in a playful stage adaptation more
The bartered bride
Bedřich Smetana
Since the first production in Pilsen in 1869, The Bartered Bride has never disappeared for a longer period of time from the opera repertoire and is therefore very well known to our audience. Generations of Pilsen opera singers have matured in the roles in this opera. more
THE CLOSET
Francis Veber
A modern social satire about how an invisible person can suddenly become a social star more
The Dogheads
Karel Kovařovic
A dramatic opera based on Alois Jirásek’s famous novel about the Chod rebellion more
The Immortal Lovers of Verona
Monika Švábová and Pavel Pavlovský once again as the ‘Immortal Lovers of Verona’, based on Miroslav Horníček’s work. more
The Little Prince
Jiří Pokorný / Gabriela Vermelho
This ballet based on the famous book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry views the world through a child’s eyes before it becomes an adult. more
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, OR A CRAZY DAY
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
“Those at the top are taking too many liberties.” more
The Memorandum
Václav Havel
An evening of staged readings from Václav Havel’s play *The Memorandum*, to mark what would have been his 90th birthday, is being held in collaboration with the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Plzeň. more
The merry widow
Franz Lehár
The Merry Widow was the first Lehár’s global success. Without exaggeration, it can be said that every music number in this operetta is a little musical jewel. more
The Playboy of the Western World
John Millington Synge
How to become a hero quickly and easily… even if it means getting into serious trouble? In a remote pub in the Irish countryside, a frightened young man named Christy Mahon suddenly shows up with a story about how he killed his father with a rake. more
The princess with the golden star
Dekkadancers
The dramaturgy of the DJKT ballet also includes educational programmes for children and youth in order to develop an understanding of dance interpretation in an accessible form. more
The Secret Marriage
Domenico Cimarosa
Mozart and Rossini were not the only masters of comic opera of their time! Domenico Cimarosa, a composer associated with Naples in Italy, spent most of his life composing in the opera buffa genre. His *The Secret Marriage* premiered in 1792, not long after Mozart’s death, in Vienna in the presence of Emperor Leopold II. more
The Strakonice Bagpiper
Josef Kajetán Tyl
One of Tyl’s most charming and enchanting plays, about the wildness of youth and the power of love. About stubbornness and selfishness, which can blind not only the eyes but also the heart. About how no one is a prophet in their own land, and how you recognise a friend in times of need – you just mustn’t overlook them! more
The taming of the shrew
Jan Kučera
'Who better recipe knows how to tame a shrew, they should tell me! I'd be grateful.' more
THE TROUBADOUR
Giuseppe Verdi
A moving story of two brothers who were separated by fate, only to be reunited in the face of tragedy. more
TO EMBRACE THE WAVES
Zdeněk Král / Tomáš Syrovátka
A chamber musical about light that sometimes shines from unexpected places more
To Have and to Hold
Richard Bean
You’re in your nineties, you’ve been married for more than sixty years, you know each other inside and out, you’ve perfected your bickering over the years, some health issues make it difficult for you to go about your daily lives, and you want only one thing from life: to live out your days contentedly and in relative peace. more
Whom My Soul Loves
Itai Segal
Seventeen-year-old Yehonatan is growing up in an Orthodox family near Tel Aviv. He tries to lead a ‘normal’ life and hides his true sexual orientation. A shooting at a bar in Tel Aviv, where he finds himself with his boyfriend Adam, begins to reveal Yehonatan’s secret. more
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Emily Brontëová
Hate is unfair. Love is even more so. The author died shortly after the publication of her only novel, which she signed with a male pseudonym in 1847. more
