In the world premiere JAMU students of musical theatre have produced Světlo pod Café Brel. The author and director is the American actor, scriptwriter and guest teacher in Brno Gene Terruso.
This musical revue with the songs of the Belgian cabaret singer Jacques Brel takes place in wartime London under bombardment. The main location is the basement of the music club Café Brel. Various groups of people meet there: an older couple, a taxi driver, a young actress, a deserter and a girl on the run from her parents. They hide away from danger, tell their stories and are scared of the war outside. The author and at the same time director of the production is Gene Terruso. Terruso has behind him a long career as a teacher, director, dramaturge, actor and also producer, author and reporter. He has been involved in New York’s Broadway, for four years he was artistic director of the Provincetown Playhouse, he was president of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and Los Angeles and founded the SummerNITE Theatre.Among the students of musical theatre performing are Tomáš Küfhaber, Robin Schenk, Diana Velčická or Martina Pawerová, Veronika Morávková or Marianna Polyáková, Patrik Földeši, Marianna Polyáková or Pavlína Palmovská and Ondřej Halámek.
The premiere will take place on Sunday 12 February 2017 from 7 p.m. in the Divadlo na Orlí.
