Tiger Poo, Perfume and the Intruder is a 29 minute long documentary (docu-comedy) first broadcast on Czech Radio Vltava in June 2016.
Eva Blechová, Gabriela Albrechtová, Stanislav Abrahám, Vladimír Chrz and the kuna and her baby collaborated to make this piece.
On this page, you will find a link to listen (from the Czech Radio website) and an English and bilingual transcript below (with time stamp at the bottom of each page). There is also some background info. More detailed information is on the rest of the website in Czech.
Beware: the transcript refers to a slightly modified (few minutes shorter) Director's cut made in January 2017. The changes are especially at the beginning. If you want to hear the Director's cut, please email me.
Eva Blechová, Gabriela Albrechtová, Stanislav Abrahám, Vladimír Chrz and the kuna and her baby collaborated to make this piece.
On this page, you will find a link to listen (from the Czech Radio website) and an English and bilingual transcript below (with time stamp at the bottom of each page). There is also some background info. More detailed information is on the rest of the website in Czech.
Beware: the transcript refers to a slightly modified (few minutes shorter) Director's cut made in January 2017. The changes are especially at the beginning. If you want to hear the Director's cut, please email me.
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BRIEF INTRO
An uninvited guest, a kuna (beech marten), takes up residence in Eva’s attic on the outskirts of Prague. It gradually destroys her expensive new roof insulation and prevents her from sleeping.
A journey begins that will take Eva further than she can imagine - we experience her going through despair, fight, radicalization on the internet, outright aggression and an attempt to understand and to make peace.
The story can be understood on several levels – as a comedy about a small animal causing trouble or as a metaphor of our attitude to something foreign and unwanted in our lives. In the context of migration crisis in Europe and the heated reactions across the European countries, the exploration of the relation to „the other“ by the main character is a very topical subject.
The radio piece straddles the boundary between a radio documentary and a radio play, where the listener is sometimes not sure whether we are dealing with a real situation or with a fictional one.
LITTLE BIT OF CULTURAL CONTEXT
The kuna (beech marten) is a nocturnal animal of the weasel family, the size of a cat. Changes to their traditional habitat in the woods have forced them to move in the last few decades into suburban areas in many parts of Europe.
It has a reputation for being adaptable, opportunistic, clever and extremely hard to catch. The little animal can kill chickens and create serious damage to roof insulation. In Germany, the martens’propensity to bite on car cables costs insurance companies more than 60 millions EUR each year. In 2016, a beech marten managed to shut down the Large Hadron Collider.
The end of the documentary refers to the fact that Czechia has been very reluctant to welcome any refugees. One rare initiative to provide asylum for more than a hundred Iraqis was terminated after about 30 of them refused to stay in Czechia and moved to Germany.