upcoming season 2008/ 2009 at wtw

Dear Spectators,

For the upcoming season 2008/ 2009, Wroclawski Teatr Wspolczesny is preparing 6 premieres:

1. ...np. Majakowski (...for instance, Mayakovsky) - stage fantasia based on The Bedbug, The Bathhouse and other writings by Vladimir Mayakovsky

 

script and direction: Krystyna Meissner
set by Andrzej Witkowski (part 1), Mirek Kaczmarek (part 2)
music: Piotr Dziubek
stage movement: Macko Prusak
premiere – 11 October 2008, Big Stage

 

Mayakovsky wrote The Bedbug in 1928; today, the work seems to be a prelude to his suicide. A fervent and zealous advocate of the revolution, and at the same time poet full of love for the human being, could not avoid a profound disappointment with post-revolutionary regime. As for the regime, it became disappointed with Mayakovsky as well. He could have developed into a different writer, more than a revolution eulogist, but this was something highly undesirable by Soviet authorities.

 

2. Bat-Yam – Tykocin Express 76 is an exceptional theatre project of Wroclawski Teatr Wspolczesny and Habimah Theatre, in which two directors will work at the same time: Michal Zadara, along with the dramaturg Paweł Demirski in Tel Aviv, and the Israeli director Yael Ronen in Wroclaw; both will stage their own texts.

The project is one of the most important artistic events in the framework of the Polish Year in Israel 2008-2009, organised by Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw. It is an attempt of looking at the relationships between the two nations – Polish and Israeli – by a young generation of artists, from both historical and contemporary point of view.

Polish part directed by Yael Ronen
Israeli part directed by Michał Zadara

Polish premiere: 20 November 2008

Israeli premiere: 14 December 2008


3. Play based on the works of Polish positivism.

Directed by Wojciech Klemm
premiere: April 2009, Big Stage


4. King Lear by William Shakespeare

Directed by Cezaris Grauzinis (Lithuania)
premiere: June 2009, Big Stage


5. The Passenger by Zofia Posmysz

Directed by Natalia Korczakowska
adaptation by Natalia Korczakowska, Tomasz Spiewak
premiere: 10 January 2009, In the Attic Stage

Zofia Posmysz is not interested in the archaeology of power structures or human suffering in the concentration camp. She shows that a “state of emergency” is not a transitory „anomaly” of law, but a permanent option accompanying the power structures and the human being itself.

6. Kaspar by Peter Handke

Directed by Barbara Wysocka
premiere: March 2009, In the Attic Stage


For those who want more:


-  regular opening meetings accompanying the premieres; in their framework, we strive to present wider context of the problematic of our plays and create an opportunity of a direct contact with their creators.


-  in the framework of our Drama Committee: cycle of readings of debut plays, involving an active participation of the spectators.


For more information, visit our webpage www.wteatrw.pl or contact the Sales and Marketing Office: rezerwacja@wteatrw.pl, tel. (+48) 71 358 89 22.