Arti Grabowski
theatre performance
This one-man show is, actually, Grabowski’s debut on theatre stage! Raport Panika may be considered an attempt to reanimate an actor in the flesh-and-blood performer. The production is based on the motives of Roland Topor’s Journal in time and Grabowski’s own texts. Each scene leads spectators into the panic astray of our national identity, the ocean of phobias, and self-ironically mocks Polish vices and weaknesses. Grabowski also settles accounts with himself, with his own pride of a patriot-frustrate, and with his own egocentric tendencies; he seeks the sources of national infection, xenophobic fears, aversion to otherness and the general lack of tolerance. At the end, he gives a lesson of savoir vivre, pointing out the lack of rules of etiquette, good manners and empathy, yet above all bitterly and ironically whipping us and himself with shame.
Arti Grabowski
theatre performance
This one-man show is, actually, Grabowski’s debut on theatre stage! Raport Panika may be considered an attempt to reanimate an actor in the flesh-and-blood performer. The production is based on the motives of Roland Topor’s Journal in time and Grabowski’s own texts. Each scene leads spectators into the panic astray of our national identity, the ocean of phobias, and self-ironically mocks Polish vices and weaknesses. Grabowski also settles accounts with himself, with his own pride of a patriot-frustrate, and with his own egocentric tendencies; he seeks the sources of national infection, xenophobic fears, aversion to otherness and the general lack of tolerance. At the end, he gives a lesson of savoir vivre, pointing out the lack of rules of etiquette, good manners and empathy, yet above all bitterly and ironically whipping us and himself with shame.