Warsaw. Warsaw Singer Literary Festival
Interpretations of literary works on the stage of the theater, during performative reading, workshops, interviews and meetings with artists. This Jewish Culture Festival Singer’s Warsaw is an invitation to an exceptional literary journey worth a good year.
All formats of meetings with literature will return to the program of the 19th Edition of the Jewish Culture Festival Singer’s Warsaw. In the literary program (including the premiere’s theater performances), Literary Salon under the direction of Remigiusz Grzela, series Masters Read or various forms of meetings with poetry.
– Theater not only in the theater
“Madagascar” – The Jewish Theater, August 20 – 21
On the Chamber Stage of the Jewish Theater, you can see the play “Madagascar”, which was awarded in this year’s edition of the National Competition for the Staging of Contemporary Polish Art. Exotherapy, which has been established in place for all Europe, has now become a reality for all those with disagreement about the place. It is a space for exile for souls of unknown origin, who have brought past or suspicious features. We will meet Stanisław Lem, Helena Rubinstein, Julian Tuwim, Helena Deutsch, Samuel Goldwyn and Ludwik Zamenhof there. The castaways in absurd, persistent grotesque ways, struggle to survive by trying to escape the island. But is it possible to escape from Madagascar?
“Jentl” – Large Stage of the Jewish Theater, Garrison Command Club, August 26-28
A performance by the Jewish Theater on a contemporary reading of Singer’s text made famous by the film, directed and starring Barbra Streisand. Its Hollywood interpretation is considered canonical, but Singer himself considered it inconsistent with the meaning and idea contained in his short story “Jentl, a yeshiva boy”. The story of the Jentl girl who became a yeshiva student for the Anszel product, for a landmark description of the fight for freedom. “I wanted to be free, I have what I want” – sing in the performance directed by Robert Talarczyk. This declaration sounds bitter, but it has a culture and determination that wants to change not only the world, but also the traditions and habits of others.
“Pif Paf in the sand” – Redoubt of Bank Polski, September 1
The Jewish Theater a unique workshop – the play “Piff Paf in the Workshops” is a theatrical meeting with figures of death, in the shrouded building of the Bank Editorial Office. – The Warsaw ghetto was alive. The Warsaw ghetto was dancing. The Warsaw ghetto was laughing. Before death was demanded, life, human passions and the will to survive were throbbing in him. In the Jewish district, where about 60 theaters, cabarets, revues, records and cafes, restaurants, and restaurants, giving an artistic program, in which people tried to solve the light of the world over the overflow, worked. Artists, writers, poets, musicians, singers, actors played there … The closest ones are Władysław Szpilman, Jerzy Jurandot, Stefania Grodzieńska and Wiera Gran, but there were also many, many others … Meet them. We will take you along the distance of the three-story Reduta Bankowa building, which was lurking in the world, characters, shadows that have been destroyed – invites Gołda Tencer, director of the Jewish Theater, originator, screenwriter and director of the performance.
– At the Jewish Literary Salon
Hanna Krall, “Details you” – Large Stage of the Jewish Theater, Garrison Command Club, 27 August
The conversation with the reporter Hanna Krall will be conducted by Remigiusz Grzela. Columnist writers appearing in Tygodnik Powszechny since December 2020 make up a coherent, not always, not always and fascinating story on one or the other. About transience and old age, but also about the ever-changing passion of telling other people’s stories. And through their prism – their own history. Because Hanna Krall writes an autobiography through her reportages. Without revealing your name, without revealing your face, in keeping the mood of the unknown and with a precision that cannot be imitated. Written “remembrances – in order to make it on time and” “from memory – the most outstanding, from which what is important, valuable, important, unknown or forgotten, is undoubtedly worth refusing.” The meeting will be a preview of the writer’s new book, “Details of the Setting”, which will be published in the fall.
Kristof Zorde, “Day One” – Austrian Cultural Forum, September 2
The interview with Kristof Zorde, a doctor of philosophy debuting as a prose writer, and an economist, will be led by Remigiusz Grzeli. The theme will be the literary debut of Zorde – a collection of short stories “Day One”. Stories based on the author’s experiences in Israel in the 1970s, but they are not memories or a diary. Why leave the comfortable and comfortable life in Scandinavia and go to a country where everyone is facing the toil of working in a shoe, each day in the shadow of war? And what in such conditions is the quiet joy of life experienced by a young person on the threshold of adulthood? Apparently, in the land of Israel, from time immemorial, they managed to conduct unusual things: talk to God, walk on water, turn water into wine. Did he keep the ancient life-giving power for the sultana?
Agnieszka Holland, Agnieszka Pasternak “The Netherlands. Biography of the new “- Austrian Cultural Forum, September 3, online broadcast on the profiles of the Austrian Cultural Forum and Singer’s Warsaw Festival on Facebook
Remigiusz Grzela will conduct a meeting on the first biography of the director Agnieszka Holland (it was released this year). The exhibition will be attended by Agnieszka Holland, the author of her biography – journalist Agnieszka Pasternak and actors playing in the director’s films. As we read in the announcement of the biography, in this book, for the first time Agnieszka Holland reveals about her life. How was it still working and creating in the male world of cinema? What was her childhood like after the tragic death of her father? Why did many Polish filmmakers do it in the West? How did she find herself in Paris as a single mother, a refugee? How did she come to Hollywood under the wing of such celebrities as Coppola?
Małgorzata Niezabitowska “Light and Darkness” – Austrian Cultures Forum, 3 September
Remigiusz Grzela will talk to Małgorzata Niezabitowska about the author’s first novel. “Light and Darkness” is the story of love taking place just before the world war, which covers everything – religion, upbringing and customs. It is a story of great love, a story full of dramatic turns, in which the fates of many characters with expressive, strong characters intertwine. You live in the reconstruction of their fate is multicultural, colorful and full of uneasy accounts of the pre-war Kresy worlds, such as Poles, Jews and Ukrainians.
– The masters read
In the Jewish Writers’ Reading Room – Masters read: Dorota Stalińska (September 3) will interpret the fragments told by Ida Fink, fragments of the novel “From the fair” by Szolem Alejchema will be heard in Mirosław Zbrojewicz (September 4).
Austrian Cultural Forum, online broadcast on the profiles of the Austrian Cultural Forum and Singer’s Warsaw Festival on Facebook.
– Meetings with poetry
“Separate yesterday from today – not to be from to be” – The Summer Stage of the Jewish Theater, August 28
Installation for actress and music: Katarzyna Post (voice), Grzegorz Kaźmierski (guitars and effects). Collages have now and ambient sounds arising here and now – with selected Jewish texts by poets (mainly poets). Materials with each other will create a nostalgic, personal and deep journey through all shades of human demands.
Stop Poezja Paweł Celan – City table at Plac Defilad, September 4
Anna Rozenfeld and Barbara Szeliga will present the poems of Paul Celan in Polish and in Polish, as we write in English, the poet does not qualify the English language of Rainer Maria Rilke as well.
The nineteenth edition of the Jewish Culture Festival Singer’s Warsaw will be held on September 27 – 4, in many places of the city. It is an encounter with Jewish culture, art, history and tradition. The festival is organized by the Shalom Foundation. The full program is on turbulent events: http://shalom.org.pl/program-2022/