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Theatre for patients in hospitals, hospices and home care

Encounters with the arts can improve everyone's quality of life. However, seriously ill patients often do not have the opportunity to go to the theatre themselves. 

Therefore, at Vlaštovka we create theatre productions for children and adult patients in a specific way, with regard to the capacities of the environment in which they take place, taking into account the energy, physical and psychological condition and capabilities of the patients, etc. Our productions introduce themes that can support patients and their families, provide distraction and encourage playfulness. 

Each theatrical production is based on the principles of play work in palliative care - through acting we encourage communication, offer opportunities for independent decision making, provide sensory stimulation to the audience and bring moments of joy and shared experience to families, whether within the confines of their home, hospital or hospice. The play is always performed by one actor, at the bedside of a particular patient, in their room or in a comfortable room where the audience feels comfortable and safe.
We are currently doing two productions.

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A celebration under the stars

Theatre performance for child audiences and their families

A seaside theatrical story about discovering the meaning of friendship. A seagull lives alone in a boat in the bay and has a very important job - picking up messages from bottles floating on the sea and delivering them to the right hands. He enjoys his solitude, but sometimes the feeling that something is missing comes over him. He has a secret dream. He has always wished that one day he would find a message that would be for him. But it never came. But one day he finds an invitation to a celebration in a bottle, but it doesn't say who it belongs to... He decides to find the recipient at any cost, but in the end he finds a treasure even more precious…

 

Recommended age: 4+

Duration: 20 min + play and discussion

Created and performed by: Michaela Váňová

Music composed by: Ondřej Rychlý

Set designed by: Anna Gumboldt

Premiere: 9 April 2024

Prague, Czech Republic

Where the ocean ends

Theatre performance for adult audiences and their families

 

This adventurous theatrical board game tells the story of Augustus, a penguin who gets lost while fishing in the ocean and tries to find his way home. He sets sail to places unknown, makes new friends and experiences moments of joy he would never have experienced in the safety of home. But when the sun sets in the evening and August has little strength left... What then? Which way home? And where is "home" anyway? How do we want the story of the penguin to end?

 

Duration: 25 min + discussion

Created and performed by: Michaela Váňová

Music composed by: Marek Doubrava

Set design collaboration: Bára Meda Řezáčová

Premiere: 12 August, 2020

Prague, Czech Republic

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Vlaštovka z. ú.

Ke Krči 517/32b,

Braník, 147 00 Praha 4

Podpořte nás:
2602766686 / 2010
IBAN: CZ09 2010 0000 0026 0276 6686

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