History

Briefly About the Festival History

Theatre Lucerna MB in cooperation with the Theatre Na Zabradli and the Theatre DISK presents the 12^th International Festival of Independent and Amateur Theatres held from 27^th of June – 1^st of July, 2010 in Prague.

The idea to organise an international festival of amateur theatres in Prague, which would serve as a confronting space for Czech and Slovakian amateur theatres on one side and theatres from the other side of the world was born among the members of the theatre Lucerna MB in December 1998 during their participation on the theatre festival Fiesta! ’98 in Venezuela. The first year of the festival took place already in July of the following year with participation of 13 theatre companies from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Venezuela. During the past ten years, the festival welcomed dozens of theatres from all over the world with performances of all of theatrical genres.

The festival took place from the first year in the Theatre Na Zabradli, that became the central festival stage. The program was held in past years also on the home stage of the organising theatre Lucerna MB – in the Malostranská beseda – Music Club and in the Dlouhá Theatre, Gallery Rudolfinum, Celetna Theatre and others.

There should be noted some radical changes in 2005. Because of the complete renovation of the Malostranská beseda, the part of festival program moved to Prague Theatre DISK that belongs to the Theatre Academy of Arts and the festival name was simplified from MB(apostrof)99 to simpler “APOSTROF”. However, the composition of its program was not changed! Following the tradition, the festival offers very good quality domestic and foreign theatres not only amateur ones but also independent and semi-professional companies. There is prepared interesting associated program (workshops and debates) on the top for those of participants and public.