Solo street performance on the borders of theatre and happening. Full of songs, dancing and clowning. Theatre performance which gets everyone on their feet and literally pulls you in the story.
King Demokar I is dead!
Yet, the throne cannot remain vacant.
Let’s hope for the new king:
In the cloak made of stars and crowned by the silence of the mountains.
With the eyes with which he can see inside people’s hearts.
With the look which breaks rocks - but never breaks hearts.
With the voice like thunder and words like lightning of justice.
His heart will never be of steel, but of bread and salt.
The source of his wisdom will not come from books, but it will beinscribed in the face by wind and time, in the palms with traces of holding a sword and a plough.
The shepherd who leads his herd in the right direction and who prays for this herd at night.
While he is walking - the earth is breathing with relief.
While he is silent - the heaven is listening.
While he is in love - the whole nation comes alive.
Neither a god, a saviour nor an angel. But a man who knows that wearing a crown means wearing a cross.
Will there be the right aspirant, a courageous person who would take this responsibility into their own hands and bring a prosperous future to our kingdom?
The project MONARCHIOT was created with the goal to connect regional communities all around the Czech Republic and to find partners outside the cultural centre of Prague. Cultural entities from the regional network of Nová síť - New Network - participated in the project and became a part of the biking residence - so-called northern and southern cycle track.
The residential cycling tour, which took place between the years of 2025 to 2026, was several hundreds kilometres long, the purpose of which was not only to make personal contacts, but also to find inspiration from the local culture and environment.
The cycling tour was not only a means of logistics but it became a stand-alone artistic layer of the project - it allowed for a slowdown of the creative process, sensitive perception of the surroundings and the integration of the movement into the performative concept and the non-traditional of the staging MONARCHIOT.
Participating cultural entities: Naplaveno, DIOD, Community Centre Slavonice, Třeboň 105, Švestkový dvůr - Plum Courtyard, Kredence / Výměník 1 - Exchanger 1, REZI.DANCE Komařice, Roztoč Association, Bohemia Farmstudio, Cultural Centre of the city of Ústí nad Labem, City Theatre Varnsdorf / S Radostí - With Joy, Educational and cultural centre Broumov, Theatrum Kuks, Kontrapunkt / the Regions Festival / Jazz Goes to Town, OffCity and Valdštejnské imaginárium - Wallenstein Loggia
Part of the project: Nová síť - New Network
King Demokar I is dead!
Yet, the throne cannot remain vacant.
Let’s hope for the new king:
In the cloak made of stars and crowned by the silence of the mountains.
With the eyes with which he can see inside people’s hearts.
With the look which breaks rocks - but never breaks hearts.
With the voice like thunder and words like lightning of justice.
His heart will never be of steel, but of bread and salt.
The source of his wisdom will not come from books, but it will beinscribed in the face by wind and time, in the palms with traces of holding a sword and a plough.
The shepherd who leads his herd in the right direction and who prays for this herd at night.
While he is walking - the earth is breathing with relief.
While he is silent - the heaven is listening.
While he is in love - the whole nation comes alive.
Neither a god, a saviour nor an angel. But a man who knows that wearing a crown means wearing a cross.
Will there be the right aspirant, a courageous person who would take this responsibility into their own hands and bring a prosperous future to our kingdom?
The project MONARCHIOT was created with the goal to connect regional communities all around the Czech Republic and to find partners outside the cultural centre of Prague. Cultural entities from the regional network of Nová síť - New Network - participated in the project and became a part of the biking residence - so-called northern and southern cycle track.
The residential cycling tour, which took place between the years of 2025 to 2026, was several hundreds kilometres long, the purpose of which was not only to make personal contacts, but also to find inspiration from the local culture and environment.
The cycling tour was not only a means of logistics but it became a stand-alone artistic layer of the project - it allowed for a slowdown of the creative process, sensitive perception of the surroundings and the integration of the movement into the performative concept and the non-traditional of the staging MONARCHIOT.
Participating cultural entities: Naplaveno, DIOD, Community Centre Slavonice, Třeboň 105, Švestkový dvůr - Plum Courtyard, Kredence / Výměník 1 - Exchanger 1, REZI.DANCE Komařice, Roztoč Association, Bohemia Farmstudio, Cultural Centre of the city of Ústí nad Labem, City Theatre Varnsdorf / S Radostí - With Joy, Educational and cultural centre Broumov, Theatrum Kuks, Kontrapunkt / the Regions Festival / Jazz Goes to Town, OffCity and Valdštejnské imaginárium - Wallenstein Loggia
Part of the project: Nová síť - New Network
Authors: Andrej Lyga
Directed by: Andrej Lyga
Performer, Project Author: Andrej Lyga
Production Manager, Dramaturgy Consultant: Júlia Pecková
Cast: Andrej Lyga
Directed by: Andrej Lyga
Performer, Project Author: Andrej Lyga
Production Manager, Dramaturgy Consultant: Júlia Pecková
Cast: Andrej Lyga