photo Bartłomiej Sowa
April 21st, 2010 – 4.00 p.m. and 9.00 p.m., The Wspolczesny Theatre
The Hieronim Konieczka Polski Theatre, Bydgoszcz
V (F) ICD-10. TRANSFORMACJE / V (F) ICD-10. TRANSFORMATIONS
by Artur Pałyga
It’s quite easy to imagine a scenario of an exhibition about the fall of communism. The way of thinking about the jubilee, the twentieth anniversary of the event, is set in the first place by symbolic gestures, such as the Round Table, or the fall of the Berlin Wall . . . Then, economical reforms are usually mentioned, concluded by the statement “Balcerowicz must leave,” or “Balcerowicz must stay,” depending on one’s attitude. Sometimes the changes of architectonic landscape are mentioned, especially the big city landscapes, including sky-scrapers and more and more pretentious designs of shopping malls . . . However, is it the whole truth of the transformation? Don’t we deal with the “Golota syndrome,” or (as diagnosed by Adam Michnik) the situation in which “Polish people are skilled – to waste everything!”?
Paweł Sztarbowski
Seven characters of the play (Lesiu, IT Expert, Teresa, Poet, Jerzy, Adaś and Zibelda), each of them experiencing some kind of disability – mental, physical, psychological – tell how they have lived for last twenty years, and
what changes were brought to them by 1989 and next years. Have any visible differences appeared in their lives?
The idea of the play departs from the “great politics,” and focuses on everyday life of the excluded – the people outside the accepted social norm. Yet the “great politics” appears in the play as a counterpoint. The biggest events of last two decades, presented in form of exhibitions and video projections provide a space where the characters exist.
ICD-10 stands for the International Classification of Diseases, and the letter V concerns the external causes of behavior and decease.
director – Paweł Łysak
dramaturgy – Paweł Sztarbowski
stage design – Paweł Wodziński
costumes design – Aleksandra Semenowicz
music – Maciej Szymborski, Sławomir Szudrowicz
stage movement – Maćko Prusak
video projections – Remigiusz Zawadzki
director of lights – Robert Łosicki
performed by: Karolina Adamczyk, Marta Ścisłowicz, Małgorzata Trofimiuk, Michał Czachor, Mirosław Guzowski, Michał Jarmicki (guest appearance), Artur Krajewski
world premiere – October 16th, 2009
The performance is carried out as a part of the Goethe-Institut project AFTER THE FALL – Europe after 1989
