LANDSCAPE IN A BACKPACK

LANDSCAPE IN A BACKPACK
performance for audiences aged 5 and up

Performers: Iva Ščerbáková, Tomáš Zahrádka, Markéta Labusová
Production: Studio Damúza (Jakub Philipp)

This is a musical-object narrative of a landscape populated by stories. From an island where the sheep are dyed blue and pink and where it rains from the bottom up. Hitchhiking, sleeping, questioning, busking, wandering. And a lot of rain.

In the rain and wind, during night driving, branches of bushes appear in the light of fog and lean into bends. They gently knock against the car. We drive past a bridge under which a troll lives, past roofless houses, stone fences and overgrown hills in the middle of nowhere. We imagine the landscape more according to Sinead’s description than we see it.

About the crew – We are a group of three friends who are dedicated to theater, music, art and ethnology.
We did research stories about fairies, the landscape, the local inhabitants and foreigners who became one with the region. We travelled, wandered, hitchhiked, busked, played, listened and talked to people. Based on our research, we created the show Landscape in a Backpack and, inspired by the tradition of wandering storytellers, we carry it in backpacks so that we can take it with us and perform it almost anywhere it is dark, where a table, us and the audience can fit.