photo Bartłomiej Sowa
April 25th, 2010 – 3.00 p.m., the Hall PKP Energetyka SA Zakład Pomorski
Wrocław’s Contemporary Theatre, Wroclaw
KASPAR
by Peter Handke
translation – Jacek St. Buras
The most important in the Handke’s text was his focus on mechanisms of violence. Kaspar’s getting lost in his memory, his long way from incoherence, through seeming shaping, to a total decay became more important that the problem with naming the world. Political layer of the text is more important than the problem with a word defining reality, and the subject of exclusion of an individual and attempts to adjust, to force him into social norms step out to the foreground. The failed experiment on a human being – the experiment no longer under control.
Barbara Wysocka
Contrary to Hegel's theses, knowledge is not freedom. The well-spoken, re-formed Kaspar, speaking like a fanatical politician, is more frightening than his tormentors. As if he wanted to shout down the pain in his head, oppose to the murderous power of language, with even more destructive words. . . .
Anna R. Burzyńska, Tygodnik Powszechny online, March 24th, 2009
director, stage design, sound design – Barbara Wysocka
costumes design – Julia Kornacka
performed by: Marta Malikowska–Szymkiewicz, Tomasz Cymerman, Szymon Czacki, Maciek Prusak
premiere – March 14th, 2009
