„KRES” – Leszek Mądzik’s KUL VISUAL Scene
13.11 Friday, 7.00 PM. PROM KULTURYtheatre, BRUKSELSKA 23 str., WARSaw
„KRES” – Leszek Mądzik’s KUL Visual Scene 50-year anniversary of KUL Art Scene - Poland
The silence of the natural world is a sound-less scream that directs our thoughts to a search for the relationship of humans with nature. Even though those two worlds are distinct beings, they speak a common tongue about passing away, whose major culprit is time. It is this common path, crowned by the moment of death, where one life and the other mirror each other. As not merely witnesses, but parts of nature, we travel together through hours, days and years until the vaguely expected end. Its fruit, in its numbness and coldness, will end passions, anxieties, fears and loves that life was filled with. The wisdom of observed nature is a discreet guide on this life path. The show wants to see the symbiosis of those two entities. By integrating the visual with music, the bloodstream that runs through the show’s tissue, we peek into the layers of our premonitions, emotions and fears that we do not set free in the everyday life; their sense often becomes apparent in moments of parting with this world. This is not a vision fed by fear, anxiety or doubt. It’s rather the acceptance of the course of fate. Inside, there’s a core of hope and trust in the sense of existence until the moment the eyes close. The title of the show can be enriched with a question mark thanks to the individual experience of the viewer.
Written and directed, and with scenography by: Leszek Mądzik
Music: Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz
Starring: Bartłomiej Ostapczuk, Ewelina Grzechnik, Maciej Jan Kraśniewski, Olga Gąsowska, Szymon Filipowicz, Katarzyna Turek.
The silence of the natural world is a sound-less scream that directs our thoughts to a search for the relationship of humans with nature. Even though those two worlds are distinct beings, they speak a common tongue about passing away, whose major culprit is time. It is this common path, crowned by the moment of death, where one life and the other mirror each other. As not merely witnesses, but parts of nature, we travel together through hours, days and years until the vaguely expected end. Its fruit, in its numbness and coldness, will end passions, anxieties, fears and loves that life was filled with. The wisdom of observed nature is a discreet guide on this life path. The show wants to see the symbiosis of those two entities. By integrating the visual with music, the bloodstream that runs through the show’s tissue, we peek into the layers of our premonitions, emotions and fears that we do not set free in the everyday life; their sense often becomes apparent in moments of parting with this world. This is not a vision fed by fear, anxiety or doubt. It’s rather the acceptance of the course of fate. Inside, there’s a core of hope and trust in the sense of existence until the moment the eyes close. The title of the show can be enriched with a question mark thanks to the individual experience of the viewer.
Written and directed, and with scenography by: Leszek Mądzik
Music: Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz
Starring: Bartłomiej Ostapczuk, Ewelina Grzechnik, Maciej Jan Kraśniewski, Olga Gąsowska, Szymon Filipowicz, Katarzyna Turek.
Leszek Mądzik
Founder of the KUL Art Scene, creator of its fifteen productions, as well as the author of more than a dozen scenographies in theatres in Poland, Portugal, France and Germany, lecturer in several art schools, the professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, a participant of tens of theatre festivals on five continents, a prize-winner in many of these; it was a long time ago that he first felt love for the theatre without words.
As he himself says, the source of wordlessness in his shows is a deep conviction that there are areas of human reality that do not yield to words.
Founder of the KUL Art Scene, creator of its fifteen productions, as well as the author of more than a dozen scenographies in theatres in Poland, Portugal, France and Germany, lecturer in several art schools, the professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, a participant of tens of theatre festivals on five continents, a prize-winner in many of these; it was a long time ago that he first felt love for the theatre without words.
As he himself says, the source of wordlessness in his shows is a deep conviction that there are areas of human reality that do not yield to words.