Upcoming Shows

Professional Foul

Coming: May 2026

Professional Foul, by the late great playwright Tom Stoppard, is a story of dons and dissidents, sports stars and StB agents, set in 1977 Czechoslovakia. The play is a (mostly) humorous view of what happens when the unstoppable force of stark reality confronts the immovable position of staid morality. 

A philosophy professor attends a weekend conference in Prague, where he plans to be “a tiny bit naughty”. When his assumptions about morality, ethics, and good manners are tested by the country’s political regime, he has to reconsider everything he thought he knew. 

Originally written as a BBC play of the week, this is a unique chance to see the play live on stage, less than 100 km from where Tom Stoppard was born.

Born in Zlin, Tomáš Sträussler escaped the Nazis with his family in 1939. He lived in England after the war, where he became a famous playwright (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead) and won multiple Tony Awards. As a screenwriter, he was nominated for an Oscar (Brazil, 1985) and won one (Shakespeare in Love, 1998). 

In 1977, Stoppard visited his native land, where he befriended fellow playwright Václav Havel. Greatly moved by the story of the Czechoslovak dissidents, Stoppard wrote a series of works set in Czechoslovakia, including Professional Foul, which he dedicated to Havel. 

Sleeping Disorders

Coming: September 2026

How can we live our one life well? Can we live on after our deaths through what we've created, who we've loved, what we've accomplished? In this dark comedy, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, and Ivana T. are stuck together after their deaths, trying to answer these questions.

Written by Radka Denemarková.