Director Bartek Arobal
The post-uprising emigration represented one of the greatest spiritual experiences for Poles, a social foundation that helped shape Polish modern identity. But it also provoked an unprecedented European phenomenon, a culture of "lonely men" crossing the nation's borders as both poets and soldiers.
Taking up the theme of their loss is director
Paweł Miśkiewicz. He wrote his screenplay on the topic in collaboration with Dorota Sajewska.
How did they subsequently come to characterise and define emigrant life and what did the thoughts and feelings of expatriate persons mean to them personally? The production focuses on emigrants' reactions to new host nations and the ways in which it made them manifest their new emotional realities.
Fanciful politics meets everyday emigration. Sectarianism meets religious madness. The scandalous lives of great heroes and average soldiers. Sickness, squalor, addiction and dependency. This is the other end of the spectrum, of
Adam Mickiewicz's battle with
Juliusz Słowacki over the rationale of the state and the significance of art with the tragic losses of
Fryderyk Chopin,
Cyprian Kamil Norwid and the religious upsurge of Towiański.
The Polish Club will pit the nameless, the forgotten and the excluded alongside great Polish Romantics, a mix of poets and prophets, swindlers and mystics, Nationalists and Catholics, messiahs of humanity and liberalists. All pose the question: Who are we?
The performance will officially conclude the theatre's 2010 International "Migrations" Theatre Festival.
- The Polish Club: screenplay: Paweł Miśkiewicz and Dorota Sajewska; Director: Paweł Miśkiewicz; costume and set design: Barbara Hanicka; music: Raphael Rogiński; lighting: Wojciech Puś; animation: Michał Jankowski; literary assistance: Justyna Konieczna, Marcin Leszczyński, Katarzyna Urbaniak, Joanna Woźnicka; starring: Stanisława Celińska (guest-star), Anna Kłos-Kleszczewska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska (guest-star), Aleksandra Konieczna (guest-star), Mariusz Benoit, Marcin Bosak, Krzysztof Dracz, Marcin Kowalczyk (guest-star), Władysław Kowalski, Hiroaki Murakami (guest-star), Maciej Nawrocki (guest-star), Henryk Niebudek, Zdzisław Niemeczek (guest-star), Dawid Ogrodnik (guest-star), Michał Podsiadło (guest-star), Piotr Siwkiewicz, Andrzej Szeremeta, Paweł Tomaszewski (guest-star), Jerzy Trela (guest-star); premiere: November 10, 2010.
Gustaw Holoubek's Teatr Dramatyczny
pl. Defilad 1 (Palace of Culture & Science)
00-901 Warsaw
Artistic Director: Paweł Miśkiewicz
tel. (+48 22) 826 21 54
tel./fax (+48 22) 826 21 54
Source:
www.teatrdramatyczny.pl