Present: Perfect explores the complex gestures through which we relate to symbols of our own past to forge senses of cultural identity.

Set in a museum of our collective memory, the play’s design invites the audience to explore a collection featuring valuable artifacts that commemorate alternative versions of key historical moments. Even with the guidance of the performers, it is, however, hard to determine which events are important, which are good to remember, and which are better to forget. The space slowly transforms into a bizarre “rage room” where events of the distant past return to the contemporary and forgotten history pervades current affairs.

Present: Perfect examines rupture points between dominant images and alternative ones. Alongside the fanatical iconoclasts who uncompromisingly destroy all signs of a hostile ideology, a parallel crowd of equally fanatical iconoclasts defends the existing symbols to their last breath.

WARNING: STROBOSCOP is used in the show!
Performing: Irina Andreeva, Tinka Avramova
Cooperating artists: rina Andreeva, Tinka Avramova, Táňa Švehlová
Sound: Matouš Hekela
Light: Václav Hruška
Production: Táňa Švehlová

With support from / acknowledgments: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, State Fund for Culture, Život Umělce Foundation, SixHouses z.s.