Tanztheaterstück

The scenes of personal tragedies to the music of a small salon orchestra show expression and vitality. Lust for life and sensualism revolt against parting and destruction. In a railway station waiting room, it deals with the final minutes of Jewish people before deportation to the concentration camps.

The dance theatre piece »Čekárna« (»Waiting room«) came from the memory of Žilina Záriecie railway station in the Slovakian countryside, from which Slovakian Jews were deported during the time of national socialism. Intense, emotionally charged images lead from the historic space into our present.

The theatre studio Farma v jeskyni (Farm in the Cave) was founded in 2001 by Viliam Docolomanský. A significant feature of its work is the insight into minorities and marginal areas of society. It has received numerous international awards and made guest performances with »Sclavi – Emigrantova Písen« (»Sclavi – the song of an emigrant«, 2005) including at the Wiener Festwochen 2007.

In Leipzig, a historically authentic location has been found in the goods station of Engelsdorf. From here, Jewish citizens were deported by the nazis to the camps of Auschwitz and Theresienstadt.

»The cruel space created in the play particularly makes the spectator shudder because the art gives it an alluringly beautiful packaging. A forgotten railway station? The world is waiting in this waiting room« (Matthias Hassenpflug, Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten, 30.10.2006).