Cracow. “Citizen Kane” – premiere on December 4 at the Stary Theater
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The story of twenty-year-old Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of a press magnate, was the constant inspiration for the play “Citizen Kane.” The play was directed by Wiktor Rubin. The premiere of the play at the National Stary Theater is scheduled for December 4.
The protagonist of the play is the granddaughter of William Randolphaarst, who comes from the influence and influence of the family of Pat Hearst. On February 4, 1974, he was kidnapped by the leftist terrorist organization Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). The group does not have the option of obtaining a ransom, but you will have to purchase and buy food and those in need.
Despite these fixes, Patty was not released. Later it turned out that she was down? During the trial, however, he would have been forced to do so. released her place as an example of the Stockholm syndrome, when the hostages identify themselves with the kidnappers.
“The department as a terrorist, listening, speaking about its own family, telling about its origin, social class, and the conditions it came from,” Jolanta Janiczak, the author of the script, told journalists. She recalled that to this day it is not clear why Patty Hearst did not take the opportunity to flee, but joined the terrorists. The woman she gave rights no no.
SLA activists would be very young, and some of them came from the partisan theater of the 1970s. “It was interesting to me that the terrorist group came from the theater,” said Janiczak. She stressed that for her medicine is “our preparation”, and terrorist actions “result from helplessness when the last option is violence.”
“The question is whether we will be able to resist something other than violence in the future to prevent one fight – wars and disasters,” said the author of the script. How, culture is also important who has the right to violence: the state uses legal violence, which differs little from the methods that terrorists try to use when they involve the intentions of urban activists, is honoring the crime. “We ask what must happen if we ourselves want to play from our social group and abandon us, make us safe,” added Janiczak.
the heroine of Patty Hearst is played by Marta Ścisłowicz (guest appearance). The performance also features: Roman Gancarczyk and Dorota Segda (Patty’s parents), Krzysztof Globisz (grandfather William Randolph Hearst, the original film prototype of “Citizen Kane”), Bogdan Brzyski (Patty’s fiancé) and Małgorzata Gałkowska, Radosław Krzyżowski and Łukasz Stawarczyk as a champion the SLA terrorist group.
“It was important for us to agree on two orders that are difficult to reconcile in the theater: in terms of the modes of performance. One tolerates each other” – classic and re-directed Wiktor Rubin. The order of society and the old play in the Hearst family, to the revolutionary, performative – terrorists.
“It corresponds to the situation of September 11, that suddenly our social system appeared through the emergence of new images,” said Rubin. “The subject is the spectacle itself and the image – to which images disturb this social spectacle in which we actually do not have a role, to which we are not persuaded. When asked, can we leave this role?” – she added.
The author of the set design is the artist Łukasz Surowiec, and the costumes are Marta Szypulska.