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May 29, 30, 31 - June 1
Usine C
Polish : 2h40 F & E surtitles
No latecomers
Coproduction : Wroclawski Teatr Wspolczesny (Wroclaw) / Teatr Rozmaitosci (Warsaw) / Teatr Polski (Poznan) et Hebbel-Theater (Berlin) / THEOREM / Commission Européenne |
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Raw, cruel theatre
Sarah Kane committed suicide at age 28, leaving behind radical and extreme writing of a rare violence, plays that highlight horror and rip our remaining illusions to shreds. The brutal echo of her work still rings out on stages around the world. Director Krzysztof Warlikowski is the blood brother of this tender, tormented soul from London. A big admirer of Dostoyevsky, he goes straight to the heart of the matter with theatre that is capable of both unbearable tenderness and compelling violence, making Cleansed a veritable Way of the Cross replete with punishment, redemption and, at the close of the journey, purification. Perceptive, honest and courageous, Warlikowski and his actors, living incarnations of truth and generosity, take us very far indeed, bringing us to the throbbing heart of all things. Climb aboard for a journey to the end of night.
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© Stefan Okolowicz
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It is the miracle of magnificent staging — from the depths of complexity flows a simple, clear fluid [...] We will be hearing more from this Polish director... Libération
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Sarah Kane |
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Krzysztof Warlikowski |
| TRANSLATION IN POLISH |
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Krzysztof Warlikowski
Jacek Poniedzialek |
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Malgorzata Szczesniak |
| MUSIC |
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Pawel Mykietyn |
| SINGING |
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Renate Jett |
| LIGHTING DESIGN |
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Felice Ross |
| ASSISTANT DIRECTOR |
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Ivo Vedral |
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Mariusz Bonaszewski
Malgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik
Redbad Klyntra
Stanislawa Celinska
Jacek Poniendzialek
Thomas Schweiberer
Tomasz Tyndyk
Renate Jett
Fabien Wlodarek (musician)
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The Sarah Kane Legend
“ I write the truth, and that’s killing me ”
Sarah Kane (1971 - 1999), who opted to commit suicide at age 28, left behind a legacy of radical and extreme works, five plays permeated by a common language — the theatre of cruelty ; Blasted, 4.48 Psychosis, Cleansed, Phaedra’s Love and Crave. The force of her writing and her characters, who are literally and figuratively torn apart, rapidly revolutionized contemporary English theatre. Translated and performed all over Europe but little known in North America, these plays speak to the unconscious and the impulsive, describing a world in the throes of depression and the struggling and grappling of human beings within that dark universe. She speaks also of love. In fact, Sarah Kane’s plays speak incessantly of love.
Krzysztof Warlikowski
“ I have more or less internalized Sarah Kane. Her violence has become my violence. A violence (...) that stems from a fear of life ”
With Cleansed, Krzysztof Warlikowski “ metamorphoses ” the excess of the piece, transposing brutality and atrocious behaviour without apology in a masterly theatrical form that conveys a symbiosis between the various elements of his theatrical vocabulary and the uncompromising commitment of his actors. Without cheating and without complacency, he takes on Kane’s obsessive fears by adroitly putting on stage the very material of which theatre is made — human beings. Krzysztof Warlikowski is part of a new generation of artists that has managed to “ take Poland out of classical theatre and history, thrusting it into the real world. ” Only 40 years old, he studied the history of theatre in Paris and also directing in Krakow, where he mounted his first plays. He has worked as assistant director with major figures of European theatre (Krystian Lupa, Peter Brook and Georgio Strehler), in addition to directing plays by Shakespeare, Sophocles, Kafka, Koltès and Gombrowicz. His work has been presented in several cities in Poland, and in recent years he has criss-crossed Europe directing both plays and operas.
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