Cracow. January and February at the Barakah Theater
photo: Iwona Bandzarewicz / mat. theater
We invite you to, while still at work, to work, to present a performance, spectacle, performance:
– OTHER PEOPLE (still with a chance to win in the 27th National Competition for the Exhibition of Polish Contemporary Art): January 20-21 and February 19-20.
The edition is based on excerpts from “Other People”, the last novel by Dorota Masłowska, the most penetrating writer of the young generation.
The performance tells the story of Kamil, a 32-year-old hooligan, dreaming of a career as a hip-hop musician, and Iwona, a marital crisis, a representative of the big-city middle class. To write texts for printing over anonymous pop culture, a poet and a vulgar testimony, they use the opinion issued by Masłowska when I read who to them on an authentic account.
Individual languages flowing from new drugs and fluids, liquid fluids and a fascinating, musical – the aura of the city’s capital. We are interested in the perspective created in “Other People”, which could be started by starting the game: are we the speakers, or has the language taken control of us? Is there a sector of non-verbal agreement, and is it in any way indicated and subject to service? What is creativity in the sector?
author: Dorota Masłowska
director: Maciej Gorczyński
music: Piotr Korzeniak and the Cukry band consisting of: Karolina Głogowska, Lena Witkowska, Agnieszka Kocińska
set design, costumes: Iwona Bandzarewicz
video: Iwona Bandzarewicz, Maciej Gorczyński, Ana Nowicka, Monika Kufel, Agnieszka Kocińska, Piotr Mateusz Wach, Wiktor Kozak, Piotr Koźmiński
choreography: Piotr Mateusz Wach
cast: Agnieszka Kocińska, Monika Kufel, Ana Nowicka, Lena Witkowska, Piotr Korzeniak, Piotr Mateusz Wach, Paweł Wolsztyński
photo: Magdalena Woch / mat. theater
– BREAKING THE WAVES (latest TB production): January 22-23.
The creators of BARAKAH decided to use the cult painting by Lars von Trier from the 90s for the source theater. Why? Because it’s still up to date!
This is the story of a Bess woman whose meaning in life is love for Jan. Is it, however, true love for a living man, or is it lined with a religious fear for God who tells a woman to love a man? Viewers have made transfers into the world of an automated website that discourages what is different and foreign. It is her product that is Bess, in which social fears and drugs fight each other, as well as the faith pushed deep into her that nothing can move her. When successive community operators address Bess with “care”, we think about the operation of the system in relation to the individual. Control and control with very fluid practice and it is often difficult to see the line between them.
Is it still concern or bondage, bondage or help? And this is what Nowicka’s play is about. About a woman who is different and does not fit into the patriarchal world, she is lost, unsure of her own, still needs to locate her content somewhere and looks for a place in the world.
BREAK OF WAVES
author: Lars von Trier
edited by Vivian Nielsen / original: Małgorzata Leyko
directed and adapted by Ana Nowicka
music: Piotr Korzeniak
set design and costumes: Monika Kufel
choreography: Piotr Mateusz Wach
cast:
BESS: Monika Kufel
JAN: Rafał Kozok
TERRY: Maciej Charyton
ADD: Anna Rokita
Pastor: Piotr Mateusz Wach
DR. RICHARDSON: Grzegorz Grabowski
photo: Iwona Bandzarewicz / mat. theater
– MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS (Iwaszkiewicz): January 29-30.
Written in 1943, the short story by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz presents the story of the possession of nuns in Ludyń and the tragic account of Mother Joanna, the abbess of the monastery and the title Suryn, of the exorcism of a Jezuite.
In TB’s interpretation, the plot of the tale of the victim, which is understood here in two ways. First of all, it is a radical gesture towards a loved one, i.e. self-sacrifice. Secondly, it is a scapegoat, i.e. innocent inventory victims (also today a party of patriarchal discourse that excludes language from narrative forms, earth creativity is better suited to the sovereignty of the subject and the subject.
An important context for the performance is the account of Anna and Jarosław I Pańkiewicz, especially the times of Anna’s illness and her stay in a psychiatric hospital in Tworki.
The language of the performance combines elements of drama theater, dance theater and musical theater.
author: Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Anna Iwaszkiewicz *
directed and adapted by Maciej Gorczyński
music: Piotr Korzeniak
set design, costumes: Iwona Bandzarewicz
cast:
MOTHER JOAN: Ana Nowicka
SURIN: Paweł Charyton
MAŁGORZAT’S SISTER: Monika Kufel
WOŁODKOWICZ: Damian Sosnowski
BRYM: Paweł Plewa
ANNA: Aleksandra Nowakowska
MARIA: Agata Jędrzejczak
photo: Piotr Kubic / mat. theater
– NEW REVIEW – “RETURN”: February 12.
The best Polish NEW REVIEW !!!
After the premiere, viewers say that in terms of distance it was the highest revue in history … we hope that each subsequent show will be even louder. For a great performance, because you are facing the best drag queens in Poland!
director: Ana Nowicka
set design: Monika Kufel
choreography: Caroline Kwiatuszewska
cast: Filo, Amba Fatima, Vipera, Lady Brigitte, Mona Lizak