The works of Bruno Schulz are a temptation and a challenge for theater artists. In his stories, the poetic word creates reality, constructing a fascinating complete world out of fleeting dreamlike visions, leaving little space for the living fabric of performance.

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The authors of "Republic of Dreams" debunk the myth of Schulz's prose as inaccessible to the theater. They open it to all forms of theatrical materiality, changeable, fluid, subject to constant metamorphoses. They uncover the demiurgic properties of Schulz's ambiguous metaphors - the power hidden in words to trigger associations, inspire action, and evoke movement. They interweave a variety of motifs drawn from Schulz's narrative, as in oriental arabesques, from intertwining winding threads and ornaments building an extraordinary world that is dense, lush and graspable by every sense.

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We invite you to the space of the Hourglass Sanatorium, desolate and strange, in which time goes back one interval, and so anything can happen. In which the archetypal figure of the Father collides with the multiplied figure of Joseph-Son, building a whole range of relationships, from affirmation to negation. By the way, it's the "theater within a theater," in which a certain team is faced with acting and directing tasks.

Above all, we want to give an impulse to reflect on the extent to which theater - any theater - can be a metaphor for reality, a "republic of dreams," a model community of dreamers. Universal, because we are all dreamers after a bit.

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Igor Gorzkowski, a director with wide-ranging interests, from drama and opera theater to television and dance theater, together with Iwona Pasinska, choreographer and movement dramaturg, has already directed "Harvest" (2017), "Polka" (2018) and "Water Hen or Delusion" (2020) at the Polish Dance Theater. The latter work was awarded 3 prizes, among others, for directing at the 46th Opole Theater Confrontations / VII Final of the Competition for the Staging of Old Works of Polish Literature "Classics Alive"(2021). The jury's verdict brought equal individual awards to Igor Gorzkowski - for directing and Iwona Pasinska - for choreography of the Polish Dance Theater's performance "Kurka wodna albo urojenie". The artists-dancers of the Polish Dance Theater received a team award.

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The awards also bring joint productions by Gorzkowski, Pasinskaya and the PTT team within the framework of television theater. For "Another World," choreographed by Ivona Pasinskaya with the participation of artists-dancers of the Polish Dance Theater, Igor Gorzkowski was awarded the Stefan Treugutt Award for creator of TV theater and the award for directing during the 20th Festival of Polish Radio Theater and Polish Television Theater "Two Theaters" in Zamosc (2021). In June of this year, the TV theater production Judas of Carioth, directed by Gorzkowski and featuring PTT artists-dancers, received the Grand Prix at the 22nd Festival of Polish Television and Polish Radio Theater in Zamosc "Two Theaters".

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"Republic of Dreams" based on the short stories of Bruno Schulz

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Script and direction - IGOR GORZKOWSKI

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choreography - IWONA PASIÑSKA

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performance assistant - JERZY KAŹMIERCZAK

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music - JOHN ZORN, JAMIE SAFT, YVES WEYH, DAVID KRAKAUER, ERICK FRIEDLANDER, RABBINICAL SCHOOL DROPOUTS

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staging - ANDRZEJ GRABOWSKI

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costumes - ADRIANA CYGANKIEWICZ, ANDRZEJ GRABOWSKI

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light design - DOMINIKI DUDEK, PRZEMYSŁAW GAPCZYŃSKI

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sound design - MICHAŁ BESZCZYŃSKI, ZUZANNA MAJEWSKA

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technical management - DARIUSZ SZYCH

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stage management - KRZYSZTOF LUDWICZAK

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production coordination - MAŁGORZATA MIKOŁAJCZAK

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poster - PIOTR ZDANOWICZ

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ARTISTS-DANCERS OF THE POLISH DANCE THEATRE:

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Jerzy Kazmierczak - Father

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Julia Halka - Mother/Joseph from the story "Dodo"

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Alexandra Kuś - Adela

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Zbigniew Kocięba - Joseph from the short story "Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass"

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Bartosz Dopytalski - Dodo/Jozef from the short story "Edzio"

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Dominik Kupka - Doctor Gotard / Jerome / Joseph from the short story "Treatise on Mannequins or the Second Book of Genesis"

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Momoko Den - Nurse

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Sandra Satan - Perasia / Joseph from the short story "Birds" / Joseph from the short story "Street of Crocodiles"

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Zofia Tomczyk - Rheticia / Joseph from the short story "Birds"

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Kacper Bożek - Edzio / Joseph from the short story "Caracons" / Joseph from the short story "Treatise on Mannequins or the Second Book of Genesis"

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Evelyn Blue - Bianca

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Matthew Krzysiak - Joseph from the short story "Spring"

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Premiere: November 16, 2023, Polish Dance Theater

Polish Dance Theater.

Spectacle in Polish with Ukrainian translation available.

The performance is in Polish with Ukrainian translation available.

Spectacle with no age restrictions, suggested for audiences 14+

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Organizer: Polish Dance Theater - a cultural institution of the Government of the Wielkopolska Region

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Supported by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Fund for Promotion of Culture within the framework of the "Dance" program, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance, as well as from an earmarked grant from the Self-Government of the Wielkopolska Voivodeship.

Partners: the Polish Dance Theater - an institution of culture of the Wielkopolska Voivodeship.

Partners: the Polish Dance Theater - an institution of culture of the Wielkopolska Region

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Partners: the Association "Better World" x Oxfam, Wielkopolska Railways

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Patrons of the 2023 /2024 anniversary season

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Honorary patrons:

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Piotr Gliński, Minister of Culture and National Heritage

Honorary patrons.

Marek Wozniak, Marshal of the Wielkopolska Region

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Jacek Jaskowiak, Mayor of the City of Poznań

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National Institute of Music and Dance

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Media patrons:

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TVP Culture

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www.e-teatr.pl

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PRESTO Magazine - Music Film Art

PRESTO Magazine.

www.kulturaupodstaw.pl

IKS / www.kulturapoznan.pl

Media support: www.taniecPOLSKA.pl