Spectacle/concert „Oś” in Łódź Kaliska

On 19 November Powszechny Theatre will present its spectacle/concert “Oś”. It will be shown in famous pub Łódź Kaliska. This rock concert will inaugurate our new project called P(OFF)WSZECHNY.

You will hear lyrics written by Agnieszka Osiecka in completely different arrangements. Two Powszechny Theatre actors – Arkadiusz Wójcik and Marta Jarczewska (awarded with Golden Mask for the best actor’s debut for her role in “Oś”) – will present very popular as well as less known songs by Osiecka.

Admission is free.

In one of her most popular songs, “May These Eyes Lie”, Agnieszka Osiecka wrote about a meeting of a man and a woman who had already had some experience in love affairs. Both of them, heroes of “Oś”, do not know what to do with their love, they cannot come into contact with each other. They talk only when they appear on stage, they talk only when they use the songs’ words. Their interpretations of Osiecka’s texts show strong emotions, they describe toxic relations of the lovers. They struggle though they very much depend on each other. They struggle and at the same time they try to understand each other. Love and music interpenetrate both on stage and behind it.

“Oś”

Director: Filip Gieldon

Choreography: Jarosław Staniek

Music arrangements: Paweł Jabłoński

Set design and costumes: Wojciech Stefaniak

Cast: Marta Jarczewska, Arkadiusz Wójcik and musicians

What is P(off)szechny?

Powszechny means common, concerning everybody. P(off)szechny sounds the same. However, it concerns everything that is off mainstream.

Powszechny means different spectacles, different subjects and awareness of the place in which we are. Awareness of the fact that Łódź is a city of contrasts. But you cannot create the theatre if you do not know the place where it would develop – says Ewa Pilawska, Powszechny Theatre director. You cannot create the theatre with no social or cultural bonds, either.

Since we have had our Small Stage we can take artistic risks, we can reach for young playwrights’ texts and we can realize ideas of young actors and directors who produce spectacles in the P(off)szechny project. The project contains spectacles searching for new means of interpretation (re-interpretation of already known motives and texts, too), such as “Oś”. The spectacles also touch on problems we try to avoid because their subjects need to be re-elaborated. These are the spectacles that talk about being “off” – off the categories of popularity, success, effectiveness. “Carbon Monoxide” is an example of a vivisection of difference, looking for the source of the difference and discussion with feminism. In “Stop Motion” we wonder whether we can live normally when we have to revalue our whole life. Can we find something positive even in a hopeless situation?

P(off)szechny will be inaugurated by “Oś” in pub Łódź Kaliska because P(off)szechny means also spectacles that go beyond classical theatre – as regards the place and as regards the way of thinking and talking to spectators.

In P(off)szechny project you will be offered a coupon-book for three spectacles (“Carbon Monoxide”, Stop Motion” and “Oś”) that you will be invited to see in a convenient date. This season other spectacles and projects will join the P(off)szechny project.