| Theatre Cinema: Season of the Masters |
Thu 15, 29 October, 5 November 2015, 19:00 Cinema Room Admission free
Thu 15 October, 19:00 Teatr ZAR Screening of the documentary Singing in Exile, dir. Nathalie Rossetti and Turi Finocchiaro, introduced by Jaros³aw FretDirected by Nathalie Rossetti and Turi Finocchiaro; co-produced by Borak Films, CBA (Belgium), Les Productions du Lagon, PACA, Procirep and Angoa (France), touchFILMS, Teatr ZAR, the Grotowski Institute, Polish Film Institute, Odra Films (Poland); associate-produced by Andon Akayyan, Béatrice and Louise Mast; premiered on 28 April 2015; 77’ In English and French with Polish subtites In order to pass on their ancestral endangered heritage, Aram and Virginia Kerovpyan, an Armenian couple from the diaspora, with Jaros³aw Fret and an international troupe of actors from Wroc³aw-based Teatr ZAR, travel on a journey to the places where this art was born, to Anatolia. On the way, their questions revive the wealth of a wiped-out culture, and singing becomes a language of creation and sharing, a breath of life. „What thrills us about documentaries is meeting ordinary people with extraordinary stories. When their stories challenge our beliefs, break down barriers, prejudices and clichés, and allow us to see things differently, it becomes absolutely necessary for us to make a film about it. We want as many people as possible to share our access to stories and our amazement for them... Stories that involve individuals who are reborn particularly impact us”. Nathalie Rossetti and Turi Finocchiaro More information: www.singing-in-exile.com  With the support of Anadolu Kültür and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.  A Polish Film Institute co-financed production  The film is co-financed by the Lower Silesian Film Fund from the funds of City of Wroc³aw and Lower Silesia Region. 
Thu 29 October, 19:00 Theodoros Terzopoulos Screening of Alarm, a performance by Attis Theatre, dir. Theodoros Terzopoulos
Direction, scenic composition Theodoros Terzopoulos; performers Tasos Dimas, Aglaia Pappa, Sophia Hill; costumes LOUKIA; music by Panayiotis Velianitis; lights Theodoros Terzopoulos, Konstantinos Bethanis; hair styling Dimittris Palaiologou; technical director Konstantinos Bethanis; production admin. Maria Vogiatzi In Greek with English subtitles
Alarm depicts the love-hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth A’ and Maria Stewart, and their fatal conflict for the crown of England, which led to the decapitation of Maria Stewart. The piece is based upon excerpts from the correspondence between Queen Elizabeth A’ and Maria Stewart, which were elaborated by Theodoros Terzopoulos. The two women share the stage which a third person: a narrator who comments sarcastically on the anguish of the two queens.
Alarm was presented in Attis Theatre in Athens in the seasons 2010–2013.
Thu 5 November, 19:00 Lech Raczak Screening of Plac Wolno¶ci (Freedom Square), a performance by Modjeska Theatre in Legnica; dir. Lech Raczak In Polish This performance piece was inspired by a novel by Antonio Tabucchi, Piazza Italia. Over 100 hundred years of history unfold on stage in the form of deft metaphors. It all begins in the early 20th century, in a small Polish town, where a family takes in a boy foundling. The boy hates the world, has the ability to foretell the future and see more than others do. He embodies the tortuous history of the whole century. We witness two wars and surroundings events: killings of Jews, resistance, interwar social conflicts, Stalinism. These events form the backdrop for personal stories and the seemingly irrelevant recurring theme – the circus. Eventually, we get to the present – the square renamed Freedom Square. The present is not a theatre, but a circus, the time of excess and overproduction, where everything is more real than reality, or – to borrow a term coined by Jean Baudrillard – hyperreal. Real power means the ability to inspire laughter, fear or admiration. There is also some undefined nostalgia in this world. But it can’t be for the past, can it? The performance was recorded on 26 and 27 May 2007 in the Modjeska Theatre in Legnica.
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