HIT

“And I would scream, but they have places for people who scream.” – Charles Bukowski

How much do we need to scream to be seen? How much do we need to show to be heard?

The solo performance Hit explores themes of amplification, exaggeration, and extension present within the act of a blow. It plays with non-aestheticized physical gestures, overflowing into action, image, word, and text, using a minimalist approach to theatrical action that is fundamentally communicative. Impact, radicality, and anger are transformed into the language of the quotidian.

The performance is loosely related to the 2015 solo performance Pitch staged both in the Czech Republic and abroad, and aligns with the straightforward style of the Bárta-Třešňáková creative duo (It’s actually about, not the paradise (2010), Sticker (2014), the latter of which was nominated for Performance of the Year and the DNA Nová síť Award).

Performed in English and Czech.