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Performance piece with Jacek Zawadzki Performance as part of Solo Situations Sun-Tue 16–18 February 2014, 7pm Laboratory Theatre Space Tickets: 15 PLNBookings and tickets: sekretariat@grotowski-institute.art.pl; tel. 71 34 45 320 Online tickets Performance in Polish Hantio is a solo performance primarily based on Bohumil Hrabal’s Too Loud a Solitude, Rainer M. Rilke’s Malte and Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet. The work on the piece has been the sum total of Jacek Zawadzki’s research and the “magic” events that happened to him while working on the script. Hantio features a lonely character, “a man of sorrows” – thoughtful, concerned about the world, and an astute observer, often wrapped in thought, which both awakens and terrifies him. Hantio’s loneliness provides the core, the spine of the piece. From Rilke’s Malte comes watchful observation, while the protagonist of The Book of Disquiet gives Hantio complete self-awareness. The three characters intersect at many points, both literally and symbolically. For all of them a window (or a manhole in Too Loud a Solitude) becomes the proverbial “window to the world”, behind which there are things they can call their own amid the misery of transience. Jacek Zawadzki  Written, staged and music: Jacek Zawadzki Premiere: Szczecin, 10 May 2013 Duration: 40 minutes The piece is based on texts by Bohumil Hrabal, Reiner Maria Rilke, Fernando Pesseoa. Jacek Zawadzki graduated from the State Acting School in Gdañsk in 1984. He was an actor at Teatr Wspó³czesny (1984–1989) in Szczecin, and a member of London’s theatre group PUR (1990–1991) and of Szczecin-based Teatr KANA (1989–1997), where he Performance in Moscow-Petushki and Night based on Venedikt Erofeev (dir. Zygmunt Duczyñski). Night won two prestigious awards at the 1994 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Between 1997 and 1999 he lived in Edinburgh, where he worked for Richard Demarc’s European Art Foundation, was a member of the performance group The Elements and made a science-fiction short film for BBC 2, At the End of On-Line. In 1999–2001 he was an actor with Teatr Polski in Szczecin. During a stint in the US (2001–2012) he collaborated with the University of Illinois in Chicago, where he presented Moscow-Petushki and ran theatre workshops. He Performance in five short films directed by American director Rene Kerkman and co-founded the blues-rock band Banana Street. Currently a free lancer, he collaborates with Teatr Kana (Szczecin), Teatr Szwalnia (£ódz), Teatr Biuro Podró¿y (Poznañ), the Grotowski Institute (Wroc³aw) and Inkubator Kultury (Szczecin). |