Commander

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The unique production combines a physical theatre performance with live music and a film starring child actors to communicate an urgent, yet widely overlooked, topic – the online radicalisation of youth. The performers' dynamic movement, the pulse of live music, and disturbing images together create an unusual insight into the digital darkness that most of us are – perhaps intentionally – unaware of. The work incorporates authentic dialogues taken from real chats of an extremist online group that was run by a thirteen-year-old boy operating under the nickname “Commander.” In the film, we see these online dialogues transplanted into a new environment: children are saying them while being in common, everyday situations. This clash allows us to see these children from a new, striking, and highly unsettling point of view. The children’s conversations about sex, death, and hatred have a chilling atmosphere that balances on the border of absurdity, humour, and unease. On the other hand, the performance, by means of physical theatre, depicts a company of immature adults who play their lives like a game, uncovering the hidden patterns that enable radicalisation to occur in the first place. The production bears the distinctive artistic signature of the Farm in the Cave ensemble. Both parts – the physical and the audiovisual – were created by a team led by Viliam Dočolomanský. The work of the internationally acclaimed physical theatre ensemble Farm in the Cave combines physical theatre, video, film, and live music into a unified work of art and has long been engaged in exploring contemporary and neglected social issues. In 2027, the ensemble will celebrate its 25th anniversary. The creative team Research Marie Jun, Markéta Hrehorová, Monika Kaššaiová, Kristýna Bartošová, Hana Varadzinová, Viliam Dočolomanský Part I Concept, Director, Choreographer Viliam Dočolomanský Dramaturgy Sodja Lotker, Markéta Hrehorová Music Štěpán Janoušek Assistant Director Hana Varadzinová, Jan Rajmont Video Design Erik Bartoš, Sláva Pecháček, Karel Šindelář Set and Costumes Lucia Škandíková Light Design Felice Ross Sound Design Eva Svobodová Lights Lukáš Jíra, František Fabián Sound Eva Svobodová, Adam Veselý Video Operator Jakub Krejčí Cooperation on movement research Eliška Vavříková Production Anely Jeromin, Sophia Stoltz, Anna-Maria Zwyrtek, Ondřej Wald Technical Production Filip Rohde, Jan Rajmont Technical Cooperation Leoš Válka, DOX, Stable-Studios Performers Andrej Štepita, Gioele Coccia, Nicolas Garsault, Barbora Ješutová, Matuš Szegho, Hana Varadzinová, Štěpán Janoušek, Šimon Janák Part II Directed by Viliam Dočolomanský Director of Photography Václav Fronk Script Viliam Dočolomanský, Marie Jun, Markéta Hrehorová Dramaturgy Markéta Hrehorová, Sodja Lotker Film Supervision Radim Špaček Music Marcel Bárta, Aigel Architect Lucia Škandíková Costumes Karolína Koláčková Editor Karel Šindelář Executive Producer Jan Horáček Production Anely Jeromin, Hana Varadzinová, Markéta Hrehorová Casting Farm in the Cave and Kristýna Bartošová Assistant Director Robert Beca, Manlai Erdembileg Location Manager David Jánský Postproduction UPP Sound Jiří Graf, NAPA Records Starring Julian Hajduk Brown, Heřman Tajovský, František Souček, Tomáš Richard Brenton, Michal Vrubel, Kryštof Brož, Kryštof Koníček, Oliver Vyskočil, Mikuláš Rychetský and more. Read more