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baz@rt / Europe Learning - Frankfurt meets Krakow

[ baz@rt in Krakow ]
baz@rt – programme
Stary Teatr, Cracow
4-8 November 2005


4 November, 7:15 p.m.; 5 November, 5 p.m.
“Der achte Tag der Woche” (“The Eighth Day of the Week”)
A production by Armin Petras based on texts by Marek Hłasko

As a guest director at Teatr Stary, Armin Petras uses texts by writer Marek Hłasko as a starting point of his search for German-Polish connections. On the one hand he wants to point out affinities and differences in our experiences, on the other he tries to find a common form of expression for both.


7 November, 5 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.
“Idioten” (“Idiots”)
A production by Andreas Kriegenburg after Lars von Trier

The production is based on the film “The Idiots” by Lars von Trier. The film has no linear plot. It consists of discrete episodes and has the form of a documentary. The scenes are interwoven with interviews.

The plot: a group of young people have decided to embark on a radical experiment. They want to confront bourgeois normality as “idiots”. They live together in a commune; babbling, fidgeting, and altogether insolent they visit public institutions, restaurants, and factories. By merely playing “idiots” (it is just a pose for them), they are subject to a test the result of which they do not yet know themselves. They tolerate any extreme and perverse form of expression. They test their limits. Karen becomes acquainted with the group only later. With distant interest she joins the “idiots”. When the group leader Stoffer demands that they also play the idiot in their familial and professional relationships, they all give up and return to their bourgeois lives. Except Karen. She returns to her family and plays the idiot.


Drama Contest

The following prose writers were asked to participate: Michał Walczak, Paweł Sala, Przemysław Wojcieszek, Michał Bajer, Szymon Wróblweski, Slawomir Shuty and Dorota Masłowska.
The translation of several works in German, among others: Elfriede Jelinek, Moritz Rinke, Fritz Kater, Sibylle Berg, Dirk Dobbrow, Theresia Walser, Igor Bauersima, and Roland Schimmelpfennig.

Young stage directors were invited to realise the chosen plays: Michał Zadara, Michał Kotanski, Michał Borczuch, Krzysztof Jaworski und Przemysław Wojcieszek.

The drama that won this contest – “Ciemno wszędzie…” by Paweł Sala – will be shown as a scenic reading, directed by Paweł Miśkiewicz, with actors of schauspielfrankfurt in the course of the festival "Europe learning – Frankfurt meets Krakow“ in Frankfurt on the Main.
Venues
Kraków: Stary Teatr / Frankfurt on the Main: schauspielfrankfurt (schmidtstrasse12)
Dates
Kraków: “baz@rt” festival, 4-8 Nov. 05
Frankfurt/Main: festival "Europe Learning - Frankfurt meets Krakow", 9-11 Dec. 05
Participating Institutions
Stary Teatr, Kraków
schauspielfrankfurt, Frankfurt/Main
Programme baz@rt

4 November, 7:15 p.m.
5 November, 5 p.m.

“Der achte Tag der Woche” (“The Eighth Day of the Week”)
A production by Armin Petras based on texts by Marek Hłasko

7 November, 5 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.
“Idioten” (“Idiots”)
A production by Andreas Kriegenburg after Lars von Trier