The play will be performed with English surtitles. The text of the improvisation can be found find in the foyer (before the play).
The story of the loss of independence is, to a considerable degree, the story of national trauma, which is both a construct of the collective consciousness and a subjective experience filtered through individual perception. The clash between these two experiences – social and private – gave rise to The Present State of the World.
This focus on the individual was the way of perceiving independence chosen by Karol Klugowski – a composer and director who uses an avant-garde form to depict the role of the artist taking the floor to speak about the most pressing political and social issues. Drawing from the theatre of Bogusław Schaeffer, the actors (Błażej Peszek, Przemysław Przestrzelski, Mikołaj Kubacki) grapple with the substance of their own bodies, which here, on stage, become instruments ground in the gears of History.
This play (…) primarily strives for a metaphorical depiction of a reality that affects us all, to some degree. By this I mean memory of the catastrophes of the twentieth century; the memory of two world wars and everything that constitutes the trauma they left behind.
(Karol Klugowski, from the program)
Cast
- Paweł Kruszelnicki
- Mikołaj Kubacki
- Błażej Peszek
- Przemysław Przestrzelski
Creators
- Karol Klugowski Director
- Kazimierz Twardowski, Karol Klugowski, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz Text
- Karol Klugowski, Piotr Klugowski Scenography
- Karol Klugowski Musical compositions (piano)
- Katarzyna Gaweł Stage Manager
