Premiere: December 28, 2020 (online), May 29, 2021 (live)
Duration: 60 minutes
Creators:
Direction and dramaturgy: Igor Gorzkowski
Choreography: Iwona Pasinska
Music: Zbigniew Kozub, Georg Friedrich Händel
Scenography and costumes: Andrzej Grabowski
Costume design, hair and makeup: Adriana Cygankiewicz
Video projections: Marek Grabowski
Light realizer: Przemyslaw Gapczynski
Sound realizer: Michal Drozda
Sound recording supervisor: Zuzanna Majewska
Realization and video projection support: Michal Drozda
Technical director: Dariusz Szych
Dancers:Evelyn Blue, Kacper Bożek, Momoko Den, Julia Halka, Paulina Jaksim, Patryk Jarczok, Jerzy Kazmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Katarzyna Kulminska, Dominik Kupka, Daniel Michna, JinWoo NamKung, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Zofia Tomczyk, Emily Wong-Adryanczyk
in the roles of Edgar, Water Hound, Father, Mother, Thaddeus, Lady Alice of Nevermore, Korbowski, Cook, Monsters, Prince of Nevermore, Krysia, Baron Sakalyi, Bellatrix, Theosophoric, Dexterowicz, Sir Grand, Butler, Sophia of Abencerage Kremlin, Da Strada, Kindle
Guests in projections: Adam Ferency (Michal Węborek), Robert Chodyla (Journalist)
Balancing on the edge of classical narrative and Pure Form, this is a story about a young artist trying to silence metaphysical anxiety in a world in crisis. The luscious dialogues - quotations from the dramas Water Hen, Mother, Brain Tumor and Maciej Korbowa and Bellatrix - the clarity of gestures, the fever of lights and the richness of costumes, create a theatrical, visual composition reminiscent of Witkacy's grotesque paintings. A recurring stage figure is the circle as a metaphor for human fate. Like a TV reality show - nothing that happens is quite real.
TRAILER
The play received three awards during the Final of the VII Competition for the Staging of Old Works of Literature "Classics Alive" within the 46th edition of the Opole Theatre Confrontations 2022.
Equivalent individual awards went to Igor Gorzkowski for directing and Iwona Pasinska for choreography. Artists-dancers of the Polish Dance Theater were honored for teamwork.
Supported by funds from the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage, from the Fund for the Promotion of Culture.
