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Podsumowanie
Borczuch’s provocative The Apocalypse will be presented at the Theaterfestival in Basel on 10th and 11th September 2016.
Content
A good daughter and an impious son of the old Europe – the inspirations behind Michał Borczuch’s main characters are based on two, radically bright but absolutely opposite discourses on Western Civilisation and its phantasmagorical ‘Other’, as embodied in a Muslim character who is both a terrorist and illegal immigrant. Two literary characters inspired the script: icon of 20th century political journalism, Oriana Fallaci, and the director, dramatist and poet, Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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Michał Borczuch was born in 1979 in Kraków. He graduated from the Faculty of Graphics at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and the Faculty of Directing at the State Higher Acting School in Kraków as well. He is a scholarship holder of The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative programme for the most talented young artists from all over the world. The majority of his shows have been performed at the National Stary Theatre in Kraków, TR Warszawa and in Teatr Polski in Wrocław. Borczuch is well known as one of the most talented theatrical creators of the current young generation. Andersen’s fables, Freud’s psychoanalyses and Goethe’s essays are amongst his main inspirations. In 2013, Borczuch was nominated for the Polityka Passport award.
Acting in The Apocalypse: Bartosz Gelner, Marek Kalita, Sebastian Łach, Marta Ojrzyńska, Piotr Polak, Jacek Poniedziałek, Halina Rasiakówna, Krzysztof Zarzecki. Culture.pl is a partner in the event.
Source: own materials, 9 Sept 2016