Vicarzhor has moved to a new location for its rehearsals, the Crown Community Center opposite the church that stands atop Marian Hills. We actually have to pay for this place, which isn't such a bad idea when you think there's nothing like a financial commitment to make people more diligent about attending rehearsals. It was the venue of this year's Christmas party, made glorious by Bara bringing her coffee machine and everybody else lots of spirits. But it is a community center, so we had to get out of there by 8:00 PM.

The Titanic is back!

On April 15, 1912, the HMS Titanic went down in one of the events of the century. To mark the 100th anniversay, Vicarzhor is preparing its own story about a big ship that goes down under similar circumstances. Maybe it hit an iceberg, maybe some enraged stoker finally decided to teach the upper class a lesson. It will star Ivana Kvitova and Jarmila Pohlova swapping turns as the very prim and proper Agnes Magness, Ola Machacova and Bara Blahova as her very frustrated and lonely nieces, the Petroshky and Antonio Nobre as three clerks who see a few opportunities to be had on board, even from their view in second class, and Thorsten Auskalkundstein as the suave and sleazy ship's officer who can make those opportunities come true...at a price. Viewer discretion advised.

A designer named Irving decides to take a quick smoking break and ends up trapped in an elevator, for an entire weekend, alone with the deep recesses of his mind, under the endless glare of the overhead light and background music that might be aptly described as elevatorish. Vicarzhor’s play for 2011 premiered at the Na Pradle theatre in Prague, followed by performances in Ostrava, Petrvald and Frydek-Mistek. Sort of the opposite direction of what a normal up-and-coming theatre outfit takes.