Forefathers' Eve
The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Cracow
Adam Mickiewicz
„Forefathers' Eve”
Direction: Maja Kleczewska
Dramaturgy: Łukasz Chotkowski
Stage script: Łukasz Chotkowski, Maja Kleczewska
Stage design, light direction: Katarzyna Borkowska
Costumes: Konrad Parol
Music: Cezary Duchnowski
Vocal training: Halina Jarczyk
Choreography: Kaya Kołodziejczyk
Assistant to the director: Tadeusz Pyrczak
Cast: Dominika Bednarczyk, Lidia Bogaczówna, Hanna Bieluszko, Rafał Dziwisz, Dorota Godzic, Marcin Kalisz, Karolina Kazoń, Agnieszka Kościelniak, Karol Kubasiewicz, Maciej Jackowski, Tomasz Międzik, Jan Peszek, Agnieszka Przepiórska, Natalia Strzelecka, Sławomir Rokita, Marcin Sianko, Feliks Szajnert, Katarzyna Zawiślak-Dolny, Tadeusz Zięba, Tomasz Augustynowicz, Kaya Kołodziejczyk
„Forefathers' Eve” is a play about Poland. Remembering the productions directed by Wyspiański, Dejmek, Swinarski, Grzegorzewski, we know that this arch-Polish drama is about our subconscious retrotopia, about the undead past and its undead demons. A community of a bloody ritual and the conformist salon are the two faces of Poland, encountered by Wyspiański along with the spectres at the same wedding.
Today these two Polands are our everyday reality – two nations fighting against each other. The Poets stand between the contending parties in this fratricidal battle. They are lonely. No Poets are needed by either side. As in a nightmare, we keep dreaming the same story ansd that makes us lose as People.
Conservative Poland wants to own the Poets. To shut their mouths. To bind their bodies, to kill their Love. To appropriate national history, to rewrite it. To write idyllic, heroic and innocent history. One can suffocate from this innocence. The „salon” Poland, with its conformism, with no ideas for the future, desires only prosperity and peace. This repetitive drama seems to have no ending. Today it is clearly visible. We are blinded by it and see no solution. The Poet's voice will resonate distinctly and tragically in this world. With God or at least despite God.
Thed play premiered on the 120th anniversary of the first performance of „Forefathers' Eve” as staged by Stanisław Wyspiański.
For viewers 15 years or more
Organizational information:
- The spectacle will be presented at the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Cracow
- The ticket entitles its holder to a free roundtrip jorney to Cracow on a coach. The trip is co-ordinated by Powszechny Theatre in Łódź
- The coaches will set out on Saturday, 19 March at 9.30 a.m. (details will be available earlier on the Powszechny Theatre website). They will arrive in Cracow at 2 – 3 p.m.
- Departure from Cracow – on Sunday, 20 March after breakfast, at 10 a.m.
- The ticket includes hotel room in Cracow (with breakfast)
- There will be hotel rooms for all the viewers – with two single beds or one double bed. Single ticket holders will be quartered in double rooms with other single ticket holders. It is co-ordinated by Powszechny Theatre in Łódź
- Immediately after having bought the ticket please fill in the application form (download) and send it to 28festiwal@powszechny.pl. Please write whether you want to go by coach and declare if you want to stay at a Cracow hotel (we have to prepare the hotel lists).
- Sending the form is the condition of using the offer of hotel stay and journey by coach.
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