Tomáš Loužný: Extáze
"My beauty is my curse"
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She was considered one of the biggest stars of the silver screen, being called the most beautiful woman in the world. She's a precursor to Disney's Snow White. She was also very smart, interested in technology, and many credit her with a number of scientific inventions, including the technology that became the basis for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. She is also said to have invented, for example, the tissue box. She has succeeded six husbands, earned and spent huge amounts of money, tried her hand at being a film producer, and loved to make phone calls, sometimes reportedly for up to 18 hours a day. The Barrandov Terraces swimming pool is the backdrop for Gustav Machatý's experimental film Extase (1932), where Hedy Lamarr's stellar career took off after she became the first person in history to appear naked in a film, causing a worldwide scandal. She lived the last 35 years of her life in seclusion, sad and lonely.
As great as her fame was in the late 1930s and early 1940s, her name is now rather forgotten, just as the glitter of Barrandov Terraces has faded. Her contradictory personality became the inspiration for Tomáš Loužný's play and our new production. Three extraordinary actresses meet in a defunct swimming pool and try to open questions about what beauty is and how it appears in the immensity of its disappearance.
Director: Tomáš Loužný
Dramaturgy: Matěj Samec
Set design: Kateřina Jirmanová Soukupová
Music: Martin Hůla, Ivo Sedláček
Starring: Radka Fidlerová, Dana Švolba Marková, Anna Fišerová
Production: Magda Juránková
Sound: Tomáš Novotný
Light Design: Miriam Čandíková
Supervision: Jana Hrušková, Andrea Černá
Main Technician: Edgar Schwarz
Technicians: Edgar Schwarz, Jiří Kocman, Vojtěch Nebeský, Ondřej Žitník, Pavol Goral, Ivo Lorenc, Milan Kosek
Graphic: Martin Groch
Video: Tereza Havlínková
Photos: Andrea Černá, Honza Walda Valík
