The International Theatre Festival REGIONY Hradec Králové has selected the creative project that will take place during this year’s edition (19–26 June 2026). In co-production with Chemické divadlo and Divadlo Setkání, the site-specific performance no elders in this city will open the topic of ageing in public space through theatre, performance and participatory formats. The project is created in cooperation with Nová síť within the ART-IN-RES programme.
In 2026, REGIONY will act for the fourth time as producer of a newly created performance project. A total of 26 companies and individual artists applied to the open call. The dramaturgical board and co-producers selected a project designed specifically for the public space of Hradec Králové and grounded in dialogue with the city itself.
The project is based on authentic stories of older residents and focuses on often overlooked aspects of their lives in the city – leisure, relationships, privacy, quality of life, activism and involvement in public life. The resulting work will combine live performance, sound installations, documentary testimony and participatory formats, offering audiences an empathetic insight into the experiences of their neighbours.
Senior participants are involved not merely as a source of testimony, but as active creative partners. The final form emerges through dialogue between personal experience, urban space and broader social questions connected to ageing and intergenerational coexistence.
The project is realised in co-production with Nová síť as part of the ART-IN-RES programme.
