photo Maciek Żórawiecki
April 24th, 2010 – 5.30 p.m., The Pleciuga Puppet Theatre
The Stefan Zeromski Theatre, Kielce
SAMOTNOŚĆ PÓL BAWEŁNIANYCH / IN THE SOLITUDE OF COTTON FIELDS
by Bernard-Marie Koltes
translation – Marian Mahor
Solitude of cotton fields. Blackmailing solitude. Solitude for show. Solitude as a good song one can sing. All songs are about love and there are wolves in all of them. Drama of encounter of two people, two men who want everything from each other. Gallop of words to express my desire.
Is it easy? To call our need, fancy, whim, deepest need. The situation of a deal. I give, you take, I sell, you buy. Exchange, transaction, trade. Of words, of touch, of caress. Who is better? In the gallop of faces, of passions, of blackmailing? A dealer, or a customer? A show and a contest of two actors, who fight for acceptance and love of spectators. Is there any other love?
Radosław Rychcik
. . . The Koltes’s text is sharp, full of metaphors, loops, ambiguities, “hums” – one has to filter what’s essential in it […] It is a mirror in which we can see ourselves and the image is not very nice indeed. The mirror shows how our triumphant procession toward better future led us only to the point where desire exists yet there is no object of desire; there is compulsive of consumption but we do not really know what we want and what possibly could satisfy us – surely neither sex, nor drugs, nor money. In Koltes’s view, the world is surrounded by void which does not allow us to forget about it, and a man is ruled by untold fear of solitude. . . .
Monika Romanowska, Gazeta Wyborcza – Kielce, October 5th, 2009
director – Radosław Rychcik
visual setting – Marta Stoces
musical setting – Natural Born Chillers
performed by:
Dealer – Wociech Niemczyk
Customer – Tomasz Nosinski
premiere – October 3rd, 2009
