Laterna Magika Stage

Laterna magika counts its history since the year 1958. The first period, created by the director Alfred Radok and stage-designer Josef Svoboda began at the world exhibition EXPO 58 in Brussels, Belgium. The program showed in the Czechoslovak pavilion was named Laterna magika and later gave its name to the theatre in Prague. The second period started at the EXPO 67 in Montreal, Canada and as well as on the EXPO 70 in Osaka, Japan and the theatre travelled through the world. In the half of seventies Laterna magika became part of the National Theatre in Prague, with the artistic director Josef Svoboda, who was at the beginning of this special medium. Laterna magika uses combination of film projection and life stage media - dance, sound, lights, pantomime, black-theatre e.t.c. There is a basic effort which is creating the face of Laterna magika till today - searching the way to a specific theatre which is able to narrate a story by using of different themes and medias as well.