These are two final thesis authorial presentations from Catarina Bon de Sousa and Yang Weiyi, who are studying in DAMU at the moment and eager to show their opinions on themselves and in the world where they are living. Stay tuned for more details!

Mrs. Europe, United?
Catarina Bon de Sousa

This is not a love letter to Europe, but a drunk text at 3 a.m. In the context of the final presentation of the Authorial Acting Department at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Mrs. Europe appears as a
fragmented, glamorous, and increasingly neurotic figure, trying to hold together twenty-seven brothers. MRS. EUROPE, UNITED? is a 40-minute solo performance based on a text originally written by
Portuguese poet José Mário Branco in 1979. The work intertwines personal and collective memory, southern nostalgia, and institutional corruption. Lots of glitter and L’Internationale sang in French!

Text, Directing, performing: Catarina Bon de Sousa
Dramaturgy: Catarina Bon de Sousa and Jan Hančil
Supervisor: Jan Hančil and Alex Asikainen

A presidential candidate’s speech
Yang Weiyi

It is a 40min around solo show consisted of the reality, the fancy, and the fancies in the fancy. The president is giving the speech with full passion, but the other him is searching for who he is actually, and whether the passion is for real. Beyond the hustle and bustle, who is he for real. He is just a guy who is worrying how to pay for the rent for next month.

Performer: Weiyi Yang,
Mentor: Jan Hančil, Alex Asikainen
Special Thanks: Olga Cui, Neda Taslimian