PRESENCE\ "Utajone / Latent", dir. Janusz Stolarski / Teatr pod Fontanną
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TypeTheatre / dance
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PlaceGreat Hall
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Hour
g. 19
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Date 27.04.2023
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Price
30
Does Franz Kafka's oeuvre have to connote darkness and absurdity? Was there another facet to the author of The Trial that we do not yet know? As it turns out, numerous literary pieces that the writer did not finish provide an interesting counterpoint to the widespread interpretation of his best-known works and biography. The creators of Latent are searching for a different Kafka, an equivocally tragic figure. Excerpts from texts abandoned by the author, sometimes interrupted mid-sentence, are delivered on stage by the actors of the Teatr pod Fontanną by way of analogy to a kaleidoscope, in which small, sometimes even broken elements, shimmer and twinkle, making up an intriguing whole. Latent seeks to find a smile in the tale of the daily struggles of one writer, several actors, or perhaps all of us? The performance is an opportunity to look at Kafka’s prose and reinterpret it through juxtaposition with the author’s obscure and unobvious life story.
Latent is based on Franz Kafka's Prozy utajone [Latent Proses] (PIW, 2019), a volume of unfinished, compelling and yet disturbing pieces of prose, selected and translated by Łukasz Musiał, who also contributed to the show as a consultant. Guest actors from Teatr Ósmego Dnia will appear on stage as well, engaging in yet another colloquy with Kafka’s work, following the experience of working on Kafka: [the text breaks off]. The latter performance premiered on 16 and 17 December 2022 at the Teatr Ósmego Dnia in Poznań.
Performance for audiences aged 16+, translated into Polish Sign Language (PSL) and Ukrainian.
direction, scenario: Janusz Stolarski
music: Sebasiatn Dembski
set design: Tomasz Ryszczyński
video: Tomasz Jarosz
light design: Arkadiusz Kuczyński,
Jacek Raczkowiak
literary consultations: Łukasz Musiał
translation into Polish Sign Language: Karina Akseńczuk
cast: : Piotr Bekasiak, Adam Borowski,
Tymoteusz Ćwierzyk, Agnieszka Grabia, Tadeusz Janiszewski, Marcin Kęszycki,
Hanna Kubaszewska, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Andrzej Nyczke, Paweł Nyga, Paweł
Oltmann, Justyna Romanowska, Julia Sobczyńska, Sebastian Sowiński, Beata
Szymankowska, Magdalena Treichel, Ewa Zajkowska
production: Centrum Kultury
Zamek z Poznaniu
The performance produced as part of the
performance project entitled "Obecność / Presence", prepared by the
Zamek Culture Centre in cooperation with the Norwegian CODA Oslo International
Dance Festival and Warsaw's Teatr 21 thanks to the grant from the Norwegian and
EEA Funds.
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Teatr pod Fontanną
an
informal group that was established in the ZAMEK Culture Centre
in 2016. It is composed of members of theatre studios working at the
"Domy
pod fontanną" - two centres run by the "Zrozumieć i Pomóc"
Association which specialises in the social and professional
rehabilitation of
people after mental crises. The group has produced four excellent
performances,
the last of which, "Grimm", won second place in "The Best
OFF" Nationwide Competition for the Best Independent Theatre Production.
Since 2022, several professional stage artists have joined the ranks of
the
theatre.
Janusz Stolarski
The group's
artistic supervisor, initiator and director of all their productions is Janusz
Stolarski - actor, graduate of the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in
Kraków. He has performed in: Drugie Studio Wrocławskie, National Theatre in
Kielce, Polish Theatre in Poznań, Sekta Lecha Raczaka Theatre Group, Teatr
Ósmego Dnia w Poznaniu, Kochanowski Theatre in Opole, Studio Theatre in
Warsaw and Lech Raczak's Orbis Tertius Third Theatre. He has also performed as a guest artist in
productions such as "Don Juan" and "tryptyk wyspiański" at
the Stary Theatre in Kraków, "Rzeźnia Lila Róż" at the Usta Usta
Theatre directed by Marcin Liber and "Przypadki Pana von K.” at the Polish
Dance Theatre. In 1994, he co-founded the ANTRAKT Theatre Association. Janusz
Stolarski has won many awards for his monodramas, including the Grand Prix at
the National Festival of One-Actor Theatre in Toruń (1991) for "Ecce
Homo", the special award of the Jury of the Second International Monodrama
Festival of the Baltic Countries - Kaunas 2010 for "Kod" etc. For
years, he has been conducting theatre workshops in Poland and abroad (Germany,
Romania, Moldova, Spain, France).
"OBECNOŚĆ" (PRESENCE) PROJECT BENEFITS FROM GRANTS IN THE AMOUNT OF EUR 290 000 FROM ICELAND, LIECHTENSTEIN AND NORWAY PROVIDED THROUGH THE EEA FUNDS. WORKING TOGETHER FOR A GREEN, COMPETITIVE AND INCLUSIVE EUROPE.
