The Constant Prince

27.10 – the spectacle will be performed with English surtitles.

The duo of Małgorzata Warsicka and Jarosław Murawski serve up an incredible play that fascinates in how it interprets a well-worn drama.

Young people are giving their lives to defend freedom, when we all have recently been confronted with the question of what we would do if the war were to spread across Europe, when we, as a society, passed the test of accepting a wave of refugees with astonishing courage, the subject of fighting for our truth, fighting to the last breath, seems extremely urgent. It is tied to the question of what kind of world we would like to build: one based on war and conflict, on an eternal struggle for our own (religious or state) interests, or a world based on love and mutual respect.

Our Prince has undergone a radical individuation (he’s had 180 years to do so). From entanglement in the war/combat/hatred/the ego to a denial of violence (following the Hindu principle of Ahimsa, or “nonviolence”), a struggle waged peacefully, even a submission to fate, which demands the sacrifice of a life for the idea of love. As such, he is a contemporary Jesus (“not the Christ”) who, to be true to his philosophy, must reject all social, religious, and systemic structures. This approach seems paradoxically possible and universal today. Perhaps this is what “constancy” means now.

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