Warsaw Premiere And the cell phone is ringing at the Contemporary Theater – …
On Saturday, on the Main Stage of the Współczesny Theater in Warsaw, the play of preparation of the playwright Sarah Ruhl will premiere. “And the cell is ringing.” The director of the show, the performance will include, among others Monika Kwiatkowska, Barbara Wypych and Agnieszka Pilaszewska are Maciej Englert.
“All Sarah’s art worlds, ordinary people who appear among people fugitives, who form on metaphysical plots, plots about time with absurd people and precise moods” – it was written in the announcement.
As it was explained, “+ A cell +” is a bit of a thriller, morality play, romances and a surreal comedy.
Sarah Ruhl (born January 24, 1974 in Wilmette, Illinois) is an American playwright, essayist, and lecturer at the Yale School of Drama. “She is the author of more than ten artfully written plays in the best quality for unambiguous definition, most often classified by critics as + magical realism +” – we read about the author.
She was a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist – for “Cleaned Up” (2005) and for “In the Room Next Door” (2010). She is a laureate of several other prestigious awards, incl. 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Award (for Best English-Speaking Playwright). Her plays on the tool on the tools. Apart from “A cell phone is calling”, the Polish premiere of which is related to May 8, 2011 at the Współczesny Theater in Szczecin (directed by Norbert Rakowski), in Poland it was staged “In the room next door” (2013) and the drama “Cleaned up” four times.
“I am interested in what theater can do that other forms of art cannot do,” Sarah Ruhl assured in 2016 in an interview for “The Washington Square Revue”.
Art translation – Małgorzata Semil. Directed by – Maciej Englert. The set design was designed by Marcin Stajewski, and the costumes by Anna Englert. The music was composed by Jerzy Satanowski. Katarzyna Łuszczyk is responsible for directing the light. The stage movement and arrangements were developed by Janusz Sieniawski.
Starring: Mateusz Król (Gordon), Barbara Wypych (Jean), Agnieszka Pilaszewska (Mrs. Gottlieb), Natalia Stachyra (The Second One; also plays a stranger), Monika Kwiatkowska (Hermia, Gordon’s widow) and Rafał Zawierucha (Dwight, Gordon’s brother) . The recording was attended by: Monika Pawlicka, Maja Polka, Natalia Stachyra, Barbara Wypych, Dariusz Dobkowski, Juliusz Godzina and Przemysław Kowalski.
Maciej Englert is an actor and theater, set and radio director. He has made 90 theater performances, over 30 television performances and nearly 20 radio plays at the Polish Radio Theater. Since 1981, he has been the managing and artistic director of the Współczesny Theater in Warsaw.
Repeatedly awarded for theater and television performances, incl. in 1978, she received the Konrad Swinarski of the “Teatr” magazine for directing Ion Drucy’s “The greatest sanctity” at the Współczesny Theater in Warsaw, and in 2013 he was awarded Feliks Warszawski for lifetime achievement.
Its last premiere, which took place on 16 2021 at the Współczesny Theater, is Carl Goldoni’s “Fan” translated by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz.
Premiere – September 10 at 19 on the Main Stage of the Współczesny Theater. Subsequent performances – September 11, 17-18 and 22-24 (PAP)
author: Grzegorz Janikowski
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