Cabaret Calembour
My friend is a manager of one little student cabaret company and after a year of her sending me e-vites on Fb I finally decided to go see their performance. The group is called Cabaret Calembour and it was establish by three students of the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU). They have two girls playing with them and the whole group totally won me over. The humor was so charming, they were charming and full of enthusiasm and adorable and talented. The whole cabaret is built on a play with words. The jokes were really smart. They used some word in its obvious meaning and just after a few seconds you get the other meaning. You just had to be in focus the whole time and I loved it. If I hate something it´s cheap jokes. The sketches took turns with songs and all the actors took turns in singing. They also wrote all the songs and lyrics themselves. I think it´s incredible.
They all graduated the Academy last year and they all play in professional theaters all over the country but once or twice a month they go back to Prague to perform this little gem. And they all do it for free because all the money they collect for the performances cover only the rent for the little theater in Kampa with only 70 seats. You just have to admire the youth talent and dedication.
They have two cabarets in their repertoire now and they call them Kvidoule. The first hour of the cabarets consist of funny sketches and songs and the next half an hour is a short funny play, or in case of the second cabaret, a musical. I was lucky they played both cabarets in one week and after I fell in love with them after the first cabaret, I couldn´t pass the opportunity to see the second one a fey days later. I just couldn´t help but be totally amused by them.
The added bonus was that at both of these performances there were my favorite actresses in the audience. First, a czech theater legend Jaroslava Adamová (who teaches acting at DAMU) and who I will always love as Mrs. Higgins from My Fair Lady and then Simona Postlerová, who is the czech voice of Lorelai Gilmore. Awesome.
After the first performance we met my friend in a nearby pub/cafe and the whole group was there and it was such a nice evening. The guys were so nice and humble (one was learning a script because he had to stand in for a major role in his home theater the next day) and everyone was funny and it reminded me a lot of my own performing arts academy collage years. The cafe/pub was artsy and crowded. It was one of the places with uniquely mixed crowd, young artsy people and young foreign tourists sitting at the tables and business men and Minister of Foreign Affairs leaning against the bar (yup, he was there). The whole evening left me elated.
There´s one short video from the last performance. It´s not great quality but just look how cute they are.lol
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