Amazonia by Michał Walczak directed by Agnieszka Glińska
The leading characters of this play are young adults with naive notions about freedom of artistic expression, which soon collide with the harsh realities of existence. Disappointed and frustrated, they attempt to analyze the reasons for their failures. Does the market not appreciate them? Is show-business ruled by a closed circle of friends and cliques? Is capitalism an unjust system?
Agata Wątróbska i Maciej Zakościelny; photo: Tadeusz Łomnicki Theatre in Wola
The man chooses freedom, smokes joints and plays video games into the night. She opts for a loan, a kitchen and a job on a TV show. Amazonia will turn their life upside down. Can they cope? Will their love stand the test of the Polish jungle?
Playwright Michał Walczak says of his play:
"Some plays quickly detach from the author's imagination, live their own life, wild, detached from the current trends. They have their own whims. They themselves choose the time and place where the audience will show up and assess. I think 'Amazonia' is such a play. Maybe because it took much longer to actually turn into a play than any of my other scripts. Or because its premiere at the Wola theatre is a return to where it started - it was commissioned by the former Artistic Directors of the theatre and was rejected before being given a second chance years later by (present artistic director) Tadeusz Słobodzianek. It waited for the right actors and definitely for the direction of Agnieszka Glińska."
The play attempts to show the truth about Polish show business through a more "wild" side of theatre. Overall, it's a play about singles, money and sex. Love in the big city and solitude in the bathtub.
The play premiered on February 4, 2011. Repeat performances are staged February 14-16, 2011.
- Amazonia by Michał Walczak; Directed by: Agnieszka Glińska; Set design: Agnieszka Zawadowska; Music: Ana Malarowska; Lighting: Magda Górfińska; Starring: Patrycja Soliman, Agata Wątróbska, Paweł Domagała, Łukasz Lewandowski, Krzysztof Stelmaszyk, Maciej Zakościelny
Źródło: www.teatrnawoli.pl
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