Edith - the Sparrow from the Suburbs
Libor Vaculík / Petr Malásek / Václav Kopta
Edith - the Sparrow from the Suburbs
The production charts the life journey of Edith Piaf from her first songs in the streets of Paris through famous cabarets to her triumphant performance at Olympia.
From vagabond childhood through turbulent youth to mature age in the world of show business, it captures her fateful love and a battle with alcohol, drugs and the malign disease to which she eventually prematurely succumbed. Ups and Downs of Edith Piaf became an impulse to seek new forms of expression. It led to a creation of a 'dance musical' - a new and unique theatrical form in the Czech theatre. The production offers the most famous and most beautiful chansons of Edith Piaf in a thrilling performance by Radka Fišarová, the world's youngest performer of the title role in the Evita musical.
Creators
- Libretto, Choreography and Direction:
- Libor Vaculík
- Music:
- Petr Malásek
- Lyrics:
- Václav Kopta
- Set:
- Jan Dušek
- Voice advisor:
- Eduard Klezla
- Language advisor:
- Sylva Nováková
- Světelný design:
- Jakub Sloup, Libor Vaculík
- Assistant Choreographer:
- Jiří Pokorný, Zuzana Hradilová
- Asistent režie:
- Miroslav Hradil
- Inspicient:
- Petr Šmaus
Prersons and actors
- Edith - zpěvačka:
- Radka Fišarová / Lucie Šustek Rybnikářová
- Edith - tanečnice:
- Zuzana Hradilová
- Vypravěč:
- Zbyněk Fric
- Anita Maillardová:
- Sara Antikainen / Lýdie Švojgerová
- Panenka:
- Victoria Roemer / Avril Wieland
- Louis Dupont:
- Karel Roubíček
- Starý elegán:
- Petr Stopka / Jiří Žalud
- Raymond Asso:
- Vojtěch Jansa
- Paul Meurisse:
- Miroslav Suda
- Henri Contet:
- Karel Audy / Mátyás Sántha
- Nicole Contet:
- Luisa Isenring / Andronika Tarkošová
- Marcel Cerdan:
- Giacomo Mori / Richard Ševčík
- Theo Sarapo:
- Gaëtan Pires / Justin Rimke
- Příslušnice SS:
- Sara Antikainen / Lýdie Švojgerová
- Těhotná žena:
- Abigail Baker / Adéla Krandová / Avril Wieland
- Muž:
- Mátyás Sántha
- V dalších rolích:
- Abigail Baker, Margarida Gonçalves, Luisa Isenring, Adéla Krandová, Kristýna Miškolciová, Aneta Pašková, Alyssia Caldonazzi, Andronika Tarkošová, Karel Audy, Riccardo Gregolin, Thierry Lynn Jaquemet, Marcos Márquez, Giacomo Mori, Gaëtan Pires, Justin Rimke, Karel Roubíček, Mátyás Sántha, Miroslav Suda, Richard Ševčík
Photos from the production
- Premiere on 27 May 2000 at the Chamber Theatre.
- The length of the production is given including 1 intermission.
