The Exorcist |
Multi.mental performance by Teatr Ad Spectatores Performance as part of “Solo Situations” Mon-Tue 11–12 February, 7pm and 8:30pm CaféTHEA Premiere Tickets: 10 PLN Bookings and tickets: sekretariat@grotowski-institute.art.pl; tel. 71 34 45 320 Online tickets Henio is an illiterate electrician with a drinking problem. After causing a major failure, he is sacked from Pafawag, but his repairman skills land him a job in a theatre that is just being established in Wroc³aw. He quickly realizes that the place is weird to say the least: the theatre director hides his eyes behind dark glasses even at night and has six fingers to each hand. The actors, instead of acting, whip themselves with wet towels, wail bizarre chants, re-enact pagan rituals, and run half-naked. Henio recounts it all to an old priest at confession. The priest visits the scene of the crime and – as a former exorcist – has no doubts whatsoever: the theatre in Wroc³aw’s market place, in the very heart of the city, is home to a group of Satan worshippers who operate under the cover of Laboratory Theatre. This is a riveting story about one of the greatest reformers of the 20th-century theatre. It boasts surround sound, crystalline images, and incredible visual and sound effects. The piece is a new stage of artistic research in modern multimedia technologies. After staging several high-profile innovative productions, Teatr Ad Spectatores, in tandem with Fundacj± Nowej Sztuki ART:FU, opens a new series of plays called The Wroc³aw Sea of Stories, which inaugurates the multi.mentalia series. Krzysztof Kopka and Teo Dumski Teatr Ad Spectatores tread the fine line between the depth of the traditional theatre idiom and the abyss created by new technologies and media. The tricky thing is to combine these two vast territories without belittling or impoverishing any of them, to not allow the multimedia pyrotechnics to dominate, but to harmoniously incorporate them into performances. It is not easy to keep this balance because of the enormous gaps in the reception ability of today’s audiences and the natural differences in the tissues forming the older and younger forms of expression. TEXT: Krzysztof Kopka DIRECTORS: Krzysztof Kopka, Teo Dumski PERFORMERS: £ukasz Chojêta, Agata Kuciñska, Marcin Chabowski, Micha³ Wielewicki, Krzysztof Kopka, Anna Ilczuk, Joanna £aganowska, Arkadiusz Cyran, Jakub Giel, Julia Urbañska, W³odzimierz Chomiak MUSICIANS: £ukasz Damrych, Wojciech Orszewski SETS AND COSTUMES: Ewa Beata Wodecka DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Edgar de Poray MUSIC: £ukasz Damrych Length: 70’ |