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Premiere of a performance with Agnieszka Bresler and Diego Pileggi Performance as part of Solo Situations Sat-Sun 29–30 March 2014, 7pm Laboratory Theatre Space Admission: 15 PLNBookings and tickets: sekretariat@grotowski-institute.art.pl Tel. 71 34 45 320 Online tickets Performance in English Harold Pinter locates the story of The Lover inside an elegant apartment. In the stage directions he precisely describes all the actions and relationships taking place between the characters. Their language and tone reveal something fierce, a certain degree of crudeness, which unfolds slowly throughout the play and affects the characters‘ daily routine. The whirling sentences of Richard and Sarah’s opening dialogue take the audience inside the labyrinth of the couple’s psychology. The relentless crescendo of scenes uncovers the changing perspectives and centrifugal forces which they continuously exert on each other. A practically bare stage gives the performers the necessary space for actions and tensions, conflicts and meetings, gestures and looks, allowing them to come close to the elusive, invisible part of every relationship. By shifting the points of focus they try to extend the audience’s view beyond the typical one, enabling a peek from above the psychological labyrinth. At this intimate proximity the audience will witness all the transformations of one (a)typical couple…  Performers: Agnieszka Bresler and Diego Pileggi Written by: Harold Pinter Directed by: Mario Barzaghi Assistant director: Rosalba Genovese Duration: 50 minutes Agnieszka Bresler is an actress from Poland. She holds an MA in Acting from the postgraduate drama school of Manchester Metropolitan University, run in collaboration with Song of the Goat Theatre and a Diploma in Physical Theatre Practice from Adam Smith College, Scotland. She has worked internationally with theatre companies in the United Kingdom, Italy and Poland including the National Theatre of Scotland (Rupture, Edinburgh 2007), Teatro La Madrugada (A Piedi Asciutti, Milan 2009) and Romany Theatre Company (Our Big Land, London 2013). In 2006 she formed Gappad Theatre, a Polish ensemble theatre in Glasgow, and led it until 2011. She performed her solo performance The Old Lady, produced in collaboration with Teatro La Madrugada in 2010–2011, in Scotland, Italy, Poland and Denmark. In 2012, at Modjewska Theatre in Legnica, she directed Spotkania/Muzykowania, a piece on Lemko culture, including songs gathered during a research expedition to Lemkivshchyna. Since 2012 she has been a member of the theatrical research project Jubilo aimed at people in danger of social exclusion, run in collaboration with the Grotowski Institute. In 2013 she designed and led a social project “Power of Voice – Power of Women”, run in Wroc³aw in collaboration with Song of the Goat Theatre. Diego Pileggi is an Italian actor and director. He obtained an MA in Acting from the postgraduate drama school of Manchester Metropolitan University, run in collaboration with Song of the Goat Theatre (2009) and a degree in Performative Arts from Università degli Studi di Milano (2007). He plays the clarinet and has a background in movement, dance theatre and Kendo. He founded the theatre group Il Giardino delle Ore based in northern Italy and worked for several years as a puppeteer in Teatro dei Burattini in Como. He was the leader of “Oistros”, a theatrical research expedition conducted in Salento in the summer of 2009; the research focused on the ritual of Tarantismo, followed by a period of work on liturgical songs, work songs and knife fighting. He is a founding member and actor of the research ensemble Odra Ensemble developed in collaboration with Song of the Goat Theatre. Its first performance, We Will Leave Only Bone: Reflections of Eurydice, premiered in March 2013. Since 2013 Diego has been a collaborator of the Grotowski Institute as co-founder and artistic leader of Jubilo, a theatre project addressed to cultural minorities in and outside Wroc³aw. Diego is currently engaged in his own pedagogical and artistic work running workshops and leading work sessions in collaboration with other theatre practitioners internationally. Teatro dell’Albero was founded in 1999 in Milan (Italy) by Mario Barzaghi and Rosalba Genovese. The work of the company focuses on the development of the actor’s craft by confronting Eastern and Western traditions through the pedagogical and artistic study of stage techniques from different theatre traditions. The result of this research is the work demonstration/performance An Athlete of the Heart: An actor between East and West and Divine fragments of the journey to Inferno. Teatro dell’Albero collaborates with many theatres around the world, including Attori e Cantori, Faber Teater, Teatro Persona, Teatro due Mondi, Teatro dei Venti, Teatro Rebis, Trickster Teatro, Limen Teatro, Teatro B. Brecht, Limosa, Teatro La Madrugada, Teatro dell’Acquario, Jacques Gardel, Arsenic, Theatre L, Studio d’Action Théâtrale, Ecum (Belo Horizonte), Teatro Taller de Colombia, le Galpon, Orchestra del Conservatorio di Ginevra, and with artists such as Gabriel Alvarez, Robert Clerc, Tage Larsen and Else Marie Laukvik. Its collaborators also include theatre scholars including Nando Taviani and Mirella Schino (Università de L’Aquila), Piergiorgio Giacché (Università di Perugia), Franco Ruffini (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Marcello Gallucci (Accademia di Belle Arti de L’Aquila). Recently, Teatro dell’Albero has collaborated on the montage of Oriente (Teatro Due Mondi) and Se ci fosse luce e il Draago (Teatro dei Venti). Its latest co-productions, directed by Mario Barzaghi, are: Limen Teatro’s Geometria del Caos, Diaphanès Teatro’s …viene il mattino azzurro and Hernàn Gené’s La Biblioteca di Scardanelli. Mario Barzaghi has been repeatedly invited to teach and perform at the open sessions of Regula contra Regulam, a research project led by Raúl Iaiza and organized in collaboration with the Grotowski Institute. More information: www.tealbero.it Performance produced in collaboration with Teatro dell’Albero (Italy)  |