photo Karolina Machowicz
April 24th, 2010 – 3.00 p.m. and 7.45 p.m., The Kana Theatre
The Kana Theatre, Szczecin
Lailonia
based on the book “Thirteen Tales from the Kingdom of Lailonia for Adults and Children” by Leszek Kołakowski
“Here, on the Earth, there is no success. Certainly, there are some famous people, yet I would insist that we are all losers,” Kołakowski writes. Shall we accept our life as an unavoidable failure? Does it mean that there is no point making any attempts to fight for one’s own happiness? Do we have any chance to win while tussling with our fate? Do we have any impact on the results?
Mateusz Przyłęcki
“Thirteen Tales from the Kingdom of Lailonia for Adults and Children”, an early little book by Leszek Kołakowski, including fictionalized parables about paradoxes of language, philosophy and life, is funny, wise and discrete. Mateusz Przyłęcki, who adopted the text on stage and directed the production, selected six “tales” and add one more, “War at Lemuria” written by Kołakowski a bit later (Lemuria was changed into Lailonia). The director transformed the stories, somehow re-wrote them, identifying their heroes with particular people – in some episodes, with the Kana’s actors . . . While watching the tales from Lailonia, we watch stories about ourselves, our problems, errors, rabidity, defeats, hopes, and stupidity. All of us are inhabitants of Lailonia, our homes are there, no matter where we live: in Szczecin’s Pogodno district, or in Brazilian region Pernambuco. Lailonia is within us – an we are within it.
Bogdan Twardochleb, Kurier Szczeciński online, September 7th, 2009
adapted and directed by – Mateusz Przyłęcki
consultation on dramaturgy – Dorota Semenowicz
costumes design – Wanda Kowalska
There are fragments of traditional compositions used in the production, performed by Anna Witczak, Daniel Kaczmarczyk and Piotr Rejdak, as well as fragments of the following musical pieces: “What a wonderful world”, composed by Louis Armstrong, performed by Rod Stewart; and “Everywhen”, composed and performed by Massive Attack.
performed by: Bibianna Chimiak, Karolina Sabat, Tomasz Grygier, Dariusz Mikuła, Waldemar Nicek, Hubert Romanowski, Piotr Starzyński
premiere – September 5th, 2009
