Main Section performances during the fourth weekend of the Theatre Olympics
With Dziady Recycling Festival behind us, we are in for another weekend of Main Section performances: Robert Wilson’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Jan Fabre’s Attends, attends, attends… (pour mon père) and Medeas: On Getting Across by Jarosław Fret and Teatr ZAR.
Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape is a solo/dialogue. One actor onstage carries on a conversation with his own voice recorded many years before. An old man sitting alone in his ‘den’ on his birthday gets ready to make a recording about the past year of his life, as he has done on every birthday since he was a young man. Robert Wilson will perform Krapp’s Last Tape two times, on 5 and 6 November.
Jan Fabre takes to the stage on 6 and 7 November to perform a piece that explores the art of postponing. The postponement creates a reserve, an instant in which everything is still possible, in which you don’t have to make choices yet. The son has an imaginary exchange of thoughts with his father. For this solo, Jan Fabre was inspired by the life of Cédric Charron.
Teatr ZAR’s piece tackles the problem of emigration. Medea is a great figure of exile. For the creators, Medea is an unbroken sequence of actors’ actions and installations that coalesce into a poetic vision of rejection. Dagmara Chojnacka said on Radio Wrocław: ‘Teatr ZAR have invited artists from around the world to perform in their latest piece. There are laments from Tehran, Greek text and an Italian actress. There is no Euripides’ Medea, but there is a raft in high seas....’ Teatr ZAR will give more performances of their newly-premiered piece on 6–9 November.
Tickets are available to purchase through the Festival website and at Barbara (Festival Centre).
In addition, Chiara Guidi, who co-founded Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio together with Romee and Claudia Castellucci, will run a workshop outside the programme of the Festival’s 6 sections. The workshop will culminate in a piece called THROAT: In Three Movements, which will play four times, on 5 and 6 November. The event is free.
