What do we really know about the alterior motives behind human actions? Who can be called an idealist rebel and who - a criminal and a traitor? Is the common good of humanity a only an illusion?
The main character of Joseph Conrad’s "Under Western Eyes", Englishman Verloc (played by Krzysztof Globisz) is a shop owner and a secret agent at the service of a superpower who is ordered to conduct a terrorist attack on a world scale. “Under Western Eyes” tells the story of the Russian revolutionists and anarchists in Petersburg and Switzerland.
Director Jan Klata remarks:
Someone once said that history does not repeat itself. It just rhymes. And that’s one of the reasons we decided to do these texts. In the 19th century we had to deal with terrorist attacks where people were killed and buildings exploded. We already know this world; it’s worthwhile to tell its story.
Theatre director, playwright and screenwriter Jan Klata was born in 1973 in Warsaw. Most often collaborates with Polski Theatre in Wrocław (“The Danton Case”, 2008 and “The Piece about Mother and the Motherland”,2011) and Stary Theatre in Cracow (“Oresteia”,2007, “The Trilogy”, 2009). He also collaborates with theatres overseas (a performance based on Kafka’s “America” at Schauspielhaus Bochum, 2011).The prizes he was awarded include the prestigious Passport of the Polityka weekly and the annual Konrad Swinarski prize awarded by Teatr Magazine.
"Coprofags or the Odious but Indispensable" ("Koprofagi, czyli znienawidzeni, ale niezbędni") based on Joseph Conrad’s “Under Western Eyes”and “The Secret Agent”
Director: Jana Klaty
Text and music: Jan Klata
Text and dramaturgy: Sebastian Majewski
Stage design: Justyna Łagowska
Choreography: Maćko Prusak
Cast: Jacek Romanowski, Juliusz Chrząstowski, Jerzy Grałek, Anna Radwan – Gancarczyk, Krzysztof Globisz, Katarzyna Krzanowska, Ewa Kaim, Małgorzata Gałkowska, Zbigniew W. Kaleta, Wiktor Loga- Skarczewski, Ewa Kaim.
The show premiered at the Stary Theatre in Kraków on September 30th, 2011. Repeats: 2nd October, 4th-6th October, 3rd, 26th-27th November
Source: press release, eteatr.pl