Divadlo Continuo "Sensus Communis" - 41st International Pantomime Theater Festival

What to expect

Sensus Communis is a theatre of sounds, objects and senses by Divadlo Continuo.

It mixes sound poetry, sound puppet theatre and object theatre.

The title refers to "common sense", but the piece explores physical and sensory perception; sound, an everyday part of life, gains a mythical dimension, carries memories and becomes a source of storytelling.

The piece uses electronic and analogue technologies to develop a special form of physical play and puppet theatre, and follows two enigmatic beings examining objects whose original function is lost.

The work is led by director and artistic director Pavel Štourač.

Pavel and Helena Štourač began their collaboration in 1990 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

The group has been based in the South Bohemian village of Malovice since 1995.

It is part of the 41st International Pantomime Theater Festival, which presents modern movement theatre with pantomime, theatre, dance, mask play, object theatre and acrobatics.

• Duration: 60 minutes, no interval
• Age recommendation: 12 and up
• Movement, live music, puppets, physical theatre, acrobatics, dance
• Strong visual language
• Works hardly fit one genre
• Artists from France, Czech Republic, Russia and Germany
• Melancholic traces of a past world