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Performance piece with Janusz Stolarski Sat 30 May 2015, 19:00 Laboratory Theatre Space Admission: 15 PLN Bookings and tickets: sekretariat@grotowski-institute.art.pl Tel. 71 34 45 320 Online tickets Please note that all booked tickets must be collected from the Office (Rynek-Ratusz 27) no later than one day before the chosen performance. In Polish Philip-Dimitri Galas was a playwright, actor, circus performer and visual artist. Drawing on his experiences working in European and American theatres, circuses and cabarets, he created a new theatre genre he called avante-vaudeville. Baby Redboots’ Revenge won its author the prestigious Weekly Theatre Award and the Hollywood Drama-Logue Award. Baby Redboots’ Revenge by Philip-Dimitri Galas is a musical drama, even though it has no musical score. Its music is the actor, the text and the movement. The play tells the story of an actor who used to be a “famous child star, a singing sensation of the travelling stage”, but now works in American show business and feels defeated by his unfulfilled ambitions and dreams of success. Haunted by one of his childhood songs, “Baby Redboots”, he teeters on the brink of mental disintegration. The Polish premiere of Baby Redboots’ Revenge was the first performance of the work outside the continental United States. The Polish translation of the play was made specially for Janusz Stolarski. Performed by Janusz Stolarski Translated and directed by S³awomir Micha³ Chwastowski Design Bohdan Cie¶lak Lighting Renata Stolarska Premiere 10 February 1995 Running time 60 minutes Based on Philip-Dimitri Galas’s Baby Redboots’ Revenge  Janusz Stolarski is an actor and director. His is a graduate of the PWST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków. His acting credits include work at the Polish Theatre in Poznañ (1990–2002), Wroc³aw Second Studio, State Theatre in Kielce, Theatre of the Eighth Day in Poznañ, National Stary Theatre in Kraków, STU Theatre in Kraków, Studio Theatre in Warsaw and Usta-Usta Theatre (with Marcin Liber). In 1994 he founded the Theatre Association ANTRAKT. He has directed and performed a number of monodramas, including Ecce Homo (1991), Baby Redboots’ Revenge (1995), Orpheus and Eurydice (2001), Gravedigger of Kings (2001), The Code (2005) and My Friend Job (2013). Janusz Stolarski also co-directed and performed in Cases of Mister von K at the Polish Dance Theatre in Poznañ. He regularly leads theatre workshops. |