April 24th, 2010 – 7.00 p.m., The Współczesny Theatre [tickets]
April 25th, 2010 – 6.00 p.m., The Współczesny Theatre
The Helena Modjeska National Old Theatre, Krakow
TRYLOGIA / TRILOGY
based on Henryk Sienkiewicz
Klata . . . is evidently partial to the Sienkiewicz’s heroes (perhaps also because he likes his actors and they find themselves perfectly in his world). His revision of Trilogy is not limited to unmasking of vices, scratching wounds and discrediting of Polish political thinking with its xenophobia, megalomania and myopia. Klata with his actors relives once again, in shortcut and compressed way, constant wars, sieges, betrayals, chases and escapes. Actors gallop on beds, they construct ramparts of Zbaraż of them, and a nurse endlessly crawls among them bandaging the knights faster and faster. Is it still Zbaraż, or perhaps Warsaw Uprising? Azja Tuhajbejowicz kills some piously kneeling Poles shooting them in the back of their heads. Is in the seventeenth-century Ukraine or [twentieth-century] Katyń? The time becomes dense, national traumas overlap, just like various poetics – cabaret jokes mixed with harsh irony and seriousness. And when we thing we got the essence of the production, Klata shows us something new and surprising.
Joanna Targoń, Gazeta Wyborcza – Krakow, February 24th, 2010, # 46
dramaturgic edition of the text – Jan Klata i Sebastian Majewski
director, sound design – Jan Klata
stage design, light – Justyna Łagowska
costumes design – Mirek Kaczmarek
choreography – Maćko Prusak
director’s assistant – Błażej Peszek
linguistic advisor – Marek Szymanowicz
The production includes records of songs “Bogurodzica” and “Boże, coś Polskę” performed by members of the Organum Cho
performed by: Anna Dymna, Małgorzata Gałkowska, Ewa Kolasińska, Barbara Wysocka, Bolesław Brzozowski, Juliusz Chrząstowski, Krzysztof Globisz, Mikołaj Grabowski, Jerzy Grałek, Tadeusz Huk, Zbigniew W. Kaleta, Andrzej Kozak, Błażej Peszek, Jan Peszek, Jerzy Święch
premiere – February 21st, 2009
