George Voskovec & John Werich: Americká cesta – Bystrov Michal (2024)

The story of Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich has never been told like it is in this book. The author teamed up with a group of young experts who traced the V + W brand through archives around the world. The result is a processing of an incredible amount of unique documents, based on which the American story of the founders of the Liberated Theatre and their court composer Jaroslav Ježek can be reconstructed literally day by day. The book debunks a hundred plus one falsehoods, assumptions, and myths. It shows everything Jan and Jiří achieved in the United States, who among the legends helped and supported them, and what great milestones they reached. Let us embark with George Voskovec and John Werich (as they signed themselves across the ocean) from New York through Chicago to the artistic colony in Pennsylvania. Let us experience a year and a half of performing on the stage of the theatre in Cleveland, where they presented their own productions. Let us undertake an adventurous journey like theirs from the Great Lakes through the Midwest to the mother of all roads, U.S. Route 66. And let us savor their six-month stay in Los Angeles, where they managed to impress the best of the best. In this book, for the first time in history, you will learn how it all was. We think we know our beloved comedians. The book American Journey will lead us out of our misconceptions and...