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.