BOWLS

A journey through a world of empty vessels that need to be filled - with food, light, sound, your life. The sounds of gamelan or Loreta bells are the accompaniment for the stumbling journey of nameless heroes into the darkness, or getting stuck in routine activities. 

The main means of expression of the project is sound, combined with light and minimalist action, during which the heroes sometimes chase impossible goals and then always freeze in the unchanging gesture of the figures from the astronomical clock. Burial vessels, rabbit feeding bowls, tramp bowls, Tibetan bowls or a tsukubai hand-washing container - all these form a sound and light system that resounds with the strokes of a stick or an algorithm. In Bowls, we watch a kind of psychedelic astronomical clock on which the secular characters adopt some aspects of traditional saints or function as "non-playing characters" NPCs, a group of characters without will, populating the vast worlds of modern video games. The protagonists of the production spin squirrel wheels of their specific activities until they collapse from exhaustion. The begging bowl is filling up. 

With this production, the group returns to its early days of experimenting with slightly cryptic stage compositions. 

Prepared by: Švábová, Procházka, Němec
Production: Jedefrau. org 
Premiere: 15. 1. 2025, Alfred ve dvoře, Praha

Handa Gote research & development is dedicated to experimenting with dramaturgy, incorporating non-theatrical elements into its work, and developing its own concept of post-dramatic and post-spectacular theater.It has long been inspired by science and technology. The group conducts continuous research into theater speech, laboratory work in the field of sound and light design, while questioning the above disciplines.