Grzegorz Jarzyna, one of the most well-known and respected directors in Polish theatre will present Turkish audiences with Nosferatu, a story inspired by the classic horror novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. The director returns to the popular vampire myth, belief in life after death and the resurrecting power of blood. Teatr Rozmaitości (TR) Warszawa defines the play as a story about human nature in need of transgression; an attempt to cross material, social and symbolic border; and the liberation of the flesh.
The cast includes Jan Englert, Jan Frycz, Dawid Ogrodnik and Sandra Korzeniak. Watch video documentation of Nosferatu at the National Theatre, here.
Nosferatu will be perfomed on 13 & 14 May, 2014. View detailed schedule here.
Jarzyna will be also hosting an acting workshops between 08-12 May, 2014 at the Istanbul, Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage. As announced on the event website, among the participants of the workshops, actors and actresses will be chosen to perform some of the main characters in Jarzyna’s next new play.
For more details on the event and schedule of the workshops, visit here.
No Matter How Hard We Tried
Scene from "No Matter How Hard We Tried", photo by Kuba Dabrowski
Written by Dorota Masłowska and directed by Gregorz Jarzyna, Między nami dobrze jest/ No Matter How Hard We Tried was successfully performed in Berlin, Brussels and the International Theatre Festival in Minsk. In an interview with Diary the writer notes:
The collision of generation, language, ways of thinking, functioning, and other daily realities, proves that there is no such thing as a "commonplace Pole", no common platform in which these elements all met and be describe could have said "we." All of these collisions are integrated in the play in a pretty gruesome and exaggerated way, but it seems to me that here is the first time I say something potentially good. Obviously, I do not explicitly state any positive message, but it is the first thing I have written that does not fall under the slogan of "what a horrible country we live in, and how grey it is here!" Conversely, here is my ironic affirmation of being Polish and Polish culture, totally ridiculed today, mixed with mud and treated as a flaw, as a slap in the face by fate, at least in my generation.