Wrota (Gateway)

Scena Plastyczna KUL

Company
Extraordinary presence, intensity and concentration characterise the work of the scenographer, stage designer and director, Leszek Madzik, who was at UNIDRAM ’96 with his theatre company. Almost considered a classic in Poland, he looks back on nearly thirty years of work in the theatre, a career which has made him renowned well beyond the borders of his own country.

Performance
A sound in the darkness. As though grain were raining down from the heavens. A long, enclosed space, from whose strange and infinite depths snake-like shapes emerge, pursued by somnambulant figures approaching a moat into which they ultimately disappear. A perpetually recurring ritual. Life as a dream, as a painful trance of chaotic movements. Surrounded by an aura of religious associations reminiscent of Tarkovsky’s film, Stalker, Wrota is filled with visual and musical images refusing obvious explanation, yet, in a fundamental sense, examining human existence.

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director: Leszek Madzik
cast: Zdzislaw Cieszkowski, Joanna Dziaduszynska, Jaroslaw Figura, Piotr Jaszczuk, Anna Lukasik, Dominik Mainski, Artur Manka, Liwia Madzik, Andrzej Molik, Katarzyna Pecyna, Paulina Rosiek, Tomasz Sierotko
music: Przemyslaw Gintrowski
duration: 40 minutes
when: Tuesday, June 24th, 7.00 p.m. and 9.30 p.m.
where: Schiffbauergasse (Russenhalle)