A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess’ (1917-1993) A Clockwork Orange, the most famous novel by the British writer, “just as brilliant and wise as it is sensational and provoking” (R. Stiller), was published in 1962, causing extreme reactions among the readers and the critics. The book also inspired Stanley Kubrick’s cult movie.
Burgess created a world marked by spiritual death. Unspecified future, youth gangs prowl the streets of an unnamed city. For Alex and his mates the meaning of life lies in theft, assaults, rapes, robberies and murders. This caricatural violence is treated with indifference by the society and law enforcement officers.
It is not “(...) the descriptions of terror and sadistic excesses that constitute the essence of his [Burgess’s] fiction, but what reveals itself in them: the roots of personal and social ethics that conditions this morbid system of values, behaviours and co-dependencies.” (Robert Stiller).
Translation: Robert Stiller.
Stage adaptation, samples, mental scratches, directed by: Jan Klata.
Set and lighting design: Justyna Łagowska.
Costumes: Mirek Kaczmarek.
Stage movement or choreography: Maćko Prusak.
Cast:
Łucja Burzyńska (guest appearance), Irena Dudzińska (guest appearance), Ewelina Paszke-Lowitzsch, Irena Rybicka, Krzysztof Boczkowski, Bogusław Kierc, Zdzisław Kuźniar, Eryk Lubos (guest appearance), Piotr Łukaszczyk, Tomasz Orpiński, Maciej Tomaszewski, Jerzy Senator, Andrzej Wilk (guest appearance) / Zbigniew Górski (guest appearance), Krzysztof Zych, Andrzej Szubski (guest appearance)
and the company of Wrocław Mime Theatre: Lucyna Piwowarska-Dmytrów, Paulina Jóźwin, Magdalena Kielar,
It is not “(...) the descriptions of terror and sadistic excesses that constitute the essence of his [Burgess’s] fiction, but what reveals itself in them: the roots of personal and social ethics that conditions this morbid system of values, behaviours and co-dependencies.” (Robert Stiller).