"Population density" and "Possible worlds" - a diptych about the catastrophe
- will be included in the program of this year's Kontrapunkt
Both performances, directed by Krzysztof Popiołek and produced together with the Kana Theatre company, are a peculiar dialogue with the present and the future; they use different theatre languages but complement each other into a coherent whole.
The first, by means of a multi-voiced stage story about the Chernobyl disaster that took place on April 26th, 1986, attempts to establish a ritual of confrontation with personal fears and premonitions (and 'conjuring' them so that they do not come true...), the second - realised after the experience of the disastrous Russian invasion on Ukraine on February 24th, 2022 - in a perverse and ironic way seeks a new language and new hope.
The former, being a documentary record of emotions, engages in a determined and sensitive conversation with the what is difficult, uncomfortable, painful, what we would like to escape from and what we would like not to know. The latter, by means of pastiche, playing with conventions, dialogue with pop-culture and black humour, asks questions about the way of existence in a world in which nothing is certain any more, which is disintegrating before our eyes and from which we cannot escape.
Both created in result of the team’s collective collaboration, founded on the actors’ personal experience and the variety of stage actions they undertake, they are the obverse and reverse of the same story – an attempt to ask questions about the possibility of salvation, to create a common space where the fragile and private within us encounters what is universally human. They are an exercise in loss and a cry for tomorrow. And for every new today.
"Population density" and "Possible worlds" - a diptych about the catastrophe
- will be included in the program of this year's Kontrapunkt
Both performances, directed by Krzysztof Popiołek and produced together with the Kana Theatre company, are a peculiar dialogue with the present and the future; they use different theatre languages but complement each other into a coherent whole.
The first, by means of a multi-voiced stage story about the Chernobyl disaster that took place on April 26th, 1986, attempts to establish a ritual of confrontation with personal fears and premonitions (and 'conjuring' them so that they do not come true...), the second - realised after the experience of the disastrous Russian invasion on Ukraine on February 24th, 2022 - in a perverse and ironic way seeks a new language and new hope.
The former, being a documentary record of emotions, engages in a determined and sensitive conversation with the what is difficult, uncomfortable, painful, what we would like to escape from and what we would like not to know. The latter, by means of pastiche, playing with conventions, dialogue with pop-culture and black humour, asks questions about the way of existence in a world in which nothing is certain any more, which is disintegrating before our eyes and from which we cannot escape.
Both created in result of the team’s collective collaboration, founded on the actors’ personal experience and the variety of stage actions they undertake, they are the obverse and reverse of the same story – an attempt to ask questions about the possibility of salvation, to create a common space where the fragile and private within us encounters what is universally human. They are an exercise in loss and a cry for tomorrow. And for every new today.