Booklet for ETC International Theatre Conference in Riga
Upcoming stage plays with subtitles in english:
February 6 | 19.00 | Main Stage
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Direction: JAN KLATA
The performance lasts: 150 minutes (no intermission)
Age restrictions: 16+
Love is not always shades of pink and red, and the Athenian forest is not always an innocent, green grove. We are closer to Shakespeare’s version, which could easily have been directed by David Lynch and in which the lovers ran around TWIN PEAKS rather than among moss and ferns. This is how you could briefly summarize another mesmerizing performance by Jan Klata.
February 19 | 19.00 | Main Stage
THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE
Direction: PIOTR KRUSZCZYŃSKI
The performance lasts: 105 minutes (no intermission)
Age restrictions: 14+
In our performance, it is the audience who holds the RIGHT TO CHOOSE. You will decide the fate of the main character in Ferdinand von Schirach’s play, portrayed by Aleksander Machalica.
The renowned German playwright has earned a reputation as a literary ‘conscience of humanity.’ The Polish pre-premiere of his drama—already popular in European theatres and on television—offers an opportunity to witness the suspense-filled hearings of successive female experts before the Ethics Council. These experts are portrayed by seven outstanding actresses: Maria Rybarczyk, Daniela Popławska, Małgorzata Łodej-Stachowiak, Bożena Borowska-Kropielnicka, Antonina Choroszy, Agnieszka Różańska, and Marta Herman. Their ethical, medical, and theological dilemmas become bargaining chips in the debate over concepts such as freedom, the right to life, and humanity.
These topics are soon to enter the Polish public discourse: dilemmas concerning euthanasia, withdrawal of palliative care, and the right to die with dignity are increasingly relevant to Poland’s social reality. THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE anticipates this debate, offering every viewer the chance to take an anonymous stand on these pressing issues today. So: what will you do with your vote?
March 5 | 18.00 | Main Stage
RED NOSES
Direction: JAN KLATA
The performance lasts: 240 minutes (with 25 minutes intermission)
Age restrictions: 18+
When, in 1993, Stanisław Barańczak (leading Polish poet of the New Wave and one of the most outstanding Polish writers; begin his career in the communist period, combining literary work with scholarship and politics. He was the most prominent translator in recent years of English poetry into Polish and of Polish poetry into English) translated Peter Barnes’ text for Nowy Theater, everything in Nowy Theater suggested that it would be a cult performance. RED NOSES directed by Eugeniusz Korin quickly became the “Mercedes among comedies”, a demonstration of the team play and a true collective performance of individual creations. The play was included in the repertoire of Nowy Theater for many years, and crowds gathered in the audience every evening. The legend of Nowy grew stronger. Did anyone expect that the theater of the mid-1990s would overtake what would appear in the world of A.D. 2020?
RED NOSES were urgently back on the poster. The performance directed by Jan Klata, set in new version, will be the cry of artists in pandemic time. A cry filled not only with helplessness, but also with an uncompromising need for theater, play and art. The performance directed by Jan Klata the winner of the “Polityka Passport” award in 2006, K. Swinarski for the 2007/2008 season, the Konrad Laurel in 2009, the European Theater Award in 2018 and many other awards it’s a proposition for all viewers who miss the Theater.
March 18 | 18.30 | New Stage
AND THAT’S WHY YOU DON’T HAVE A HUSBAND. A brief guide on how not to talk to your mother/daughter*
Direction: ANNA GRYSZKÓWNA
The performance lasts: 65 minutes (no intermission)
Age restrictions: 14+
The relationship between a mother and daughter is an endless source of expectations and demands, pressure and support, unanswered questions, grievances, dreams, surprises, disappointments, and – more or less – embarrassing stories.
In Hindi Brooks’ witty play, two people who are the closest in the world and yet, paradoxically, almost strangers to each other, decide to use a shared vacation trip to explore this peculiar bond and the limits of their own perceptions. As a result, the carefree holiday setting turns into an unusual laboratory, where every emotion is subjected to a thorough analysis – sometimes comical, sometimes deeply painful…
We invite you to join the experiment!
*delete as appropriate
March 20 | 19.30 | New Stage
THE PRESIDENTS
Direction: PIOTR KRUSZCZYŃSKI
The performance lasts: 95 minutes (no intermission)
Age restrictions: 18+
Elderly ladies – from the local sophisticate, through the typical shrinking violet to the curtain-twitching neighbour – all have entirely youthful dreams. The kind you only tell your closest friends and only on special occasions. About long-awaited grandchildren, a better life, a new fur, a pilgrimage to Licheń, an interesting occupation and about love – happy at last, finally forever… The list gets longer, the more modest the real possibilities of the dreamers turn out to be. Eh, Irena, Renata and Maryjka know this best. What will happen when during a banal teatime meeting they dare to release their fantasies from the leash of decency?
We offer discounted tickets for visitors with school cards, student cards and pensioner cards.
Reservations:
bow@teatrnowy.pl
Address:
Teatr Nowy im. Izabelli Cywińskiej w Poznaniu
ul. Dąbrowskiego 5, 60-838 Poznań
