photo Bogumił Gudalewski
April 24th, 2010 – 3.00 p.m. and 7.30 p.m., Academic Centre of Culture
Bialystok Puppet Theatre
LIS / THE FOX
by Marta Guśniowska
Here is the Fox – or, actually, what’s left of Him – lying carelessly on the Puppeteer’s table. Here is the Puppeteer – a self-styled Demiurge – standing ominously above the Fox. Two figures. Two contradictory aims: the Fox wants to return to his old life, the Puppeteer wants to give Him a new one … Who will get his way?
The absurd and humorous story about life, death, sense and nonsense, seen with the eyes of the eviscerated Fox, will answer all questions. Literally and in a fox way.
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In a sense, we face a quasi-Kantor situation: the body is dead, yet the soul is still alive, the Fox begins to deliberate upon this situation of death. Suddenly he learns about life much more than when he was alive, for that’s how it is – we learn about something in the situation of loss. However it is not so gloomy as one could expect. At first our hero is sorry to realize he is dead, but then he discovers some pleasures that resulted from dying. For example, one can make a tattoo and it’s painless. It’s a theatre with tongue in cheek, about important issues, yet featured in a humorous way.
Piotr Tomaszuk, Gazeta Wyborcza, February 24th, 2010
director – Piotr Tomaszuk
stage design – Julija Skuratova (Lithuania)
stage designer’s assistant – Gintar? Vaivadait? (Lithuania)
music – Piotr Nazaruk
video – Rafał Gąsowski, Mateusz Kasprzak
performed by:
Fox – Ryszard Doliński
Puppeteer – Krzysztof Bitdorf
premiere – February 27th, 2010
