A music quiz with a host and at the same time an energy-packed theatre concert performed by the entire ensemble and many other NTL employees takes place on the occasion of one shamefully overlooked anniversary. The anniversary of the invention of the jukebox!
Just choose a song, push the right lever of the mechanical jukebox, and the SOK band will start playing immediately! This playlist includes only the greatest hits and moreover, time-tested songs! A mix of genres from the 1960s to the present. Pop, rock, country, punk, R&B, folk music. You can dance, listen and watch. There's something for everyone!
The NTL ensemble used the pandemic closure of theatres in the spring of 2021 to restart the theatre band. Under the direction of the accompanist Míra Ošanek, the group SOK – Skoro Opravdová kapela (Almost a Real Band) was born! Members of the audience choose individual songs themselves in a giant theatre jukebox. In addition, each song is accompanied by a live staged "video clip". The selection of songs is limited, but the band's performance knows no limits.
About the theatre:
The Naive Theatre Liberec was established in 1949, as one of the first professional puppet theatres in the former Czechoslovakia, celebrating the 70th anniversary pf its existence in 2019. It is among the absolute top in contemporary Czech puppet theatre, focusing mainly on children and young people. Between 2009 and 2019, its productions received the prestigious Erik Puppetry Award, awarded for the best Czech puppet production of the past season, five times. Every two years, the Naive Theatre organizes the international Mateřinka Festival, which focuses on puppet productions for preschool children. In its programme the Naive Theatre emphasizes original author works and, above all, it persistently strives to produce puppet performances, regardless of whether the term puppet is used to describe figurative, object or any other type of visual theatre. Audiences have been able to see Productions of the Naive Theatre t international festivals throughout Europe, as well as in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Pakistan, Israel, Mexico, Canada and the USA.
From 1991 to 2020, it was led by the director Stanislav Doubrava, who was replaced by Kateřina Pavlů in 2021. The artistic director is Michaela Homolová.
