BIFF Offscreen: The Stingy Tailor

Sunday, October 12 promptly at 8:15 PM, join us at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center for a special, flash marionette performance – BIFF Offscreen: The Stingy Tailor!

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Vít Hořejš performs a one-man show of Czech fairy tales (in English) replete with kings, clever village maidens, witches and spirits. His marionettes speak in a dozen voices, dance, play violin, swim and fly.

Sunday night’s program features one of his favorite tales, “The Stingy Tailor”, in which a proud and stingy tailor is taught a lesson by the water goblin “Vodnik”.

An RSVP is required in order to attend this free event, and audience members will be signed up on a first come, first served basis.

If you also buy a ticket to the related screening of WOODEN HEARTS immediately following at Hallwalls at 8:30 PM and provide proof at the door – in BIFF's spirit of un-stinginess, we'll provide one (1) beer or water at the bar for you to join us in raising our glasses to Vodnik, Vit, Onur, Bonnie, and Michael!

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About the Artist:

VÍT HOREJŠ an émigré from Prague, founded Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre in 1990, utilizing century-old Czech puppets discovered at Jan Hus Church on East 74th Street. He has translated, written, adapted, and directed over two dozen marionette plays for CAMT, is a resident artist at La MaMa Theater in NYC. He has performed on stage, film, and TV. Published works: Twelve Iron Sandals (1985); Pig and Bear (1989). He appeared as Krojak, in Woody Allen’s Don’t Drink the Water, starred in Onur Tukel’s features, Scenes From an Empty Church, and Wooden Hearts; and Carnegie Hall/Centro Primo Levi film The Scandal of the Imagination. He co-produced Faust on a String, an award-winning documentary about Czech puppetry, and wrote the lead essay for Czechoslovak-American Puppetry (GOH Productions, 1994). He received the 2018 SVU Award in recognition of a lifetime achievement in fostering the art of Czech and Slovak puppetry; and the 2019 NY ACKER Award in a ceremony at Theater for the New City in NY.

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Image courtesy of the artist. Photo by Jonathan Slaff.