Heydrich

Mime Club

(Prague/Czech Republic)

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Reinhard Heydrich: the ideal image of an SS leader, cold-hearted manager and callous executioner. A hatchet man, but also an excellent swordsman and virtuoso violinist. He put his exceptional talents at the service of an inhuman ideology and intoxicated himself with absolute power. The production is a powerful physical study of military sports exercises, elements of ballroom dance, patterns of movement in ecstatic rhythm and sharp cuts between the individual sequences. The result is an image of a key figure in the Nazi movement – of corruption, manipulation and the desire for destruction.

Artists from all genres have worked in the Mime Club, which was founded in 2012. Dancers and musicians, mime artists and performers alike have put diverse projects into practice since then that explore the interface between dance, pantomime and movement theatre. Alexej Byček, director and actor in the production Heydrich, studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.