The Fringe Zone

Address

Malostranské náměstí 35/21
118 00, Praha 1

Getting there

Closest metro: Malostranská (A/Green Line)
Closest tram stop: Malostranské náměstí (trams 12, 15, 20, 22 and night tram 57)




The origins of the building housing this 'beseda' (gathering place) date back to the late 1480s although the building as it appears today dates from 1660s. It was the seat of the town hall of Malá Strana as well as a a fiscal office, a tax archive and a political prison. It has been a cultural centre since 1868 and a Fringe venue for the past 9 years.

Address

Malostranské náměstí 35/21
118 00, Praha 1

Getting there

Closest metro: Malostranská (A/Green Line)
Closest tram stop: Malostranské náměstí (trams 12, 15, 20, 22 and night tram 57)


The origins of the building housing this 'beseda' (gathering place) date back to the late 1480s although the building as it appears today dates from 1660s. It was the seat of the town hall of Malá Strana as well as a a fiscal office, a tax archive and a political prison. it has been a cultural centre since 1868 and a Fringe venue for the past 8 years.

Address

Jánský vršek 8, 118 00 Malá Strana

Getting there

Closest metro: Malostraská (A/Green Line)
Closest tram stop: Malostranské náměstí (trams 12, 15, 20, 22 and night tram 57)



This small theatre is housed in the building where Edward Kelly set up his alchemy lab for Rudolf II in the 1500s. Shakespeare is rumoured to have stayed here. The Museum of Alchemists has been a Fringe venue for 4 years.

Address

Nerudova 243/27
118 00, Praha 1

Getting there

Closest metro: Malostranská (A/Green Line)
Closest tram stop: Malostranské náměstí (trams 12, 15, 20, 22 and night tram 57)



Golden Key is in the basement of a boutique hotel on the main route from Malá Strana to the castle. Hotel Golden Key is part of the Asten Hotels group which sponsors the Fringe by accommodating four of its staff at no cost. This will the be the fourth year of our collaboration. The performance space is located in the 15th Century cellar of the building which had never been used for performances before Fringe.
The building is located where the moat surrounding the castle originally would have been. Typical to Prague this Renaissance building has a Baroque facade. The prominent house signs on this street are a quintessential Baroque feature which pre-date house numbers, look out for the golden key.

Address

Malostranské námesti 258/13,
118 00, Praha 1

Getting there

Closest metro: Malostranská (A/Green Line)
Closest tram stop: Malostranské náměstí (trams 12, 15, 20, 22 and night tram 57)



Housed in a cellar of the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the space opened in 2000 as a theatre to host performances of the music students. The stunning Lichtenstein Palace was build in the 1590s, converted from a number of renaissance town houses and aristocratic residences.    Its look today dates from the 1790s after a major reconstruction where the buildings were unified by one single facade. There are 27 bollards decorated with heads along the front of the building commemorating the 27 men that the Lichtenstein family had executed in 1621. Divadlo Inspirace has been a Fringe venue for 10 years. 

Address

Malostranské náměstí 9
118 00, Praha 1

Getting there

Closest metro: Malostranská (A/Green Line)
Closest tram stop: Malostranské náměstí (trams 12, 15, 20, 22 and night tram 57)



The longest running Prague Fringe space, 2019 will mark the 16th Fringe season. Located, in what was for decades a coal cellar, A Studio Rubín has been running as an underground (literally) performance space since 1967 with only a brief break in programming after the Communist regime closed it down. Reopening with red tones to its name, it was allowed to continue. The building 'The House at the Three Crowns' dates from the 1460s and was originally a hospital.

Address

Míšeňská 71/3
118 00, Praha 1

Getting there

Closest metro: Malostranská (A/Green Line)
Closest tram stop: Malostranské náměstí (trams 12, 15, 20, 22 and night tram 57)

This newly renovated space is located in the baroque vaulted cellar of the Queen Bee House (U Včelí královny) still owned (now for over 300 years) by the Demartini family. The building was located in the Bishop's apiary hence the name. In the late 1700s Johan Demartini manufactured soaps and perfumes here (when the adjacent two buildings were joined together) and in the early 1800s it was the only building in Malá Strana to have an industrial chimney (still standing today). The Demartini's were exclusive suppliers of perfumes to the imperial court in Vienna till 1918. This is the third year Café Club Míšeňská has been a Fringe venue.

Address

Nosticova 634/2a
110 00, Praha 1

Getting there

Closest metro: Malostranská (A/Green Line)
Closest tram stop: Hellichova (trams 12, 15, 20, 22 and night tram 57)



This space, housed in a pre-1800s villa in the grounds of SOKOL (Czech Gymnastic Organisation) has been operating as a theatre since the 1800s and sits on the edge of the Čertovka (Devil's Stream) looking across to Kampa Park. The building also housed a spa. Divadlo Kampa has been a Fringe venues for 15 years.

Address

Odborů 278/4
120 00, Praha 2

Getting there

Closest metro: Národní třída or Karlovo náměstí (B/Yellow Line)
Closest tram stop: Novoměstská radnice (trams 2, 3, 6, 14, 18, 22, 24)