Miss AmeriKa

Spitfire Company

Concept

Miřenka Čechová, Martin Tvrdý

Music

Martin Tvrdý

Text, performed by

Miřenka Čechová aka Mckenzie Tomski 

Photographs

Vojtěch Brtnický

Animation

Martin Tvrdý

Comics

Chin Yew

Dramaturgy of the show

Petr Boháč

Dramaturgy of the original text

Barbora Baronová

Directorial cooperation

Jacquelyn de Villiers

Light design

Karlos Šimek

Costumes of Wonder Woman

Eva Judová

Project manager

Barbora Repická

International booking

Tereza Havlíčková

Production

Petra Hanzlíková / Nadan Pojer

Thanks to 

Jana Hunterová for photos from New York subway.

Co-producer

Palác Akropolis

Duration

55 min

Partners

Dans Brabant (NL), Moving Station, Divadlo Drak

Supported by

Hlavní město Praha, MKČR

Spitfire Company projects are supported in 2018-2020 by a multiyear grant of CZK 1 400 000 by City of Prague.

The story of a woman who’s fallen in love with a city to which she is a stranger.

Mckenzie Tomski is a New York misfit, an unobtrusive, yet self-confessed starer. Mckenzie is a queen of virtual loneliness in the same way as Wonder Woman without high boots and legal status. She is a creature of liquid identity, disrupting American clichés with ironical, dark and uncompromising humor. Mckenzie comes from a line of outcasts, stray people, those who are standing in shadows, in the gray zone, and dreaming their American dream, that one day they will “prove themselves”.

The multimedia project of Miřenka Čechová and Martin Tvrdý presents a crude image of life on Manhattan via a collage of music, text, rap, slam, stand-up, performance, photographs by Vojtěch Brtnický and the comics by Malayan cartoonist Chin Yew. The symbiosis of all those components creates an authentic story of a woman who’s fallen in love with a city to which she is a stranger. 

The project is based on a book by Miřenka Čechová Miss AmeriKa, published in July 2018 in the publishing house wo-men.

Performance is in english without subtitles. 

Tickets

Foto: Vojtěch Brtnický
Photo: Vojtěch Brtnický
Photo: Vojtěch Brtnický
Photo: Vojtěch Brtnický
Foto: Vojtěch Brtnický
Photo: Vojtěch Brtnický

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