MANDALA / MAJOR PERFORMANCES

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TRANS-ATLANTIC

based on W. Gombrowicz prose
Devised by : Andrzej Sadowski Directing: Katarzyna Deszcz Cast: Katarzyna Deszcz, Elaine Kayne, Beata Wojciechowska, Mirosława Wielowiejska, Mariusz Jankiewicz, Marek Lelek, Zbigniew Kozłowski, Jacek Milczanowski, Krzysztof Radkowski, Piotr Urbaniak
An artistic cooperation with Powszechny Theatre, Radom
Premiere: June'97, IIIrd Gombrowicz Festival, Radom

Touring: PL


/…/ Staged in the local building in the midst of remodeling, the audience passed through a series of emblematic "happenings" inspired by the episodes in the novel in various interconecting rooms, with each gradually changing and merging with the others in the course of the performance. The disorientation of the audience in the presence of these unfamiliar scenes and hectoring characters demanding its attention aptly parraleled the encounter of the novel's exiled narrator with his new "home" in Buenos Aires .
Allen J. Kucharski, THEATRE FORUM

/…/ The action of Trans-Atlantyk, played simultaneously in several dimly-lit rooms of a school building under renovation, prompted the audience to find its own way - and meaning - among the performance's disconnected fragments.
Helena M. White, AMERICAN THEATRE JOURNAL

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THE DEVILS MIRROR
an open-air production based on the prose of I. B. Singer

Set design and directing: Andrzej Sadowski
Music: Maciej Strojny and Herrkopf
Choreography: Marta Pietruszka
Costumes: Elzbieta Wójtowicz, Maria Starobrańska
Tehnicians: Ryszard Starobrański, Piotr Kulesza
Producer: Anna Grabska
Cast:
Irina Afanasjewa, Hanna Biełuszko-Światłoń, Alicja Kamińska, Marta Pietruszka, Mirosława Wielowiejska, Maciej Jackowski, Zbigniew Kozłowski, Marcin Kuźmiński, Marek Lelek, Tomasz Międzik, Jacek Milczanowski, Wojciech Skibiński, Bogdan Słomiński, Mikołaj Wieprew, Błażej Wójcik, Paweł Iwaszkiewicz, Sergiej Kapeluszok, Aleksander Koniuszenko, Paweł Muzyka, Jacek Ruszkiewicz, Pinokio, Maciej Strojny, Konstantin Wasiliev, Paulina Bielik, Dominika Ćwikła, Anna Dydo, Małgorzata Kubińska, Dagmara Nowak-Adamczyk, Kamila Ogórek, Kaja Olesińska, Katarzyna Pytel, Magdalena Roczyńska, Dominika Wilkosz, Klaudia Wychowaniec, Mateusz Paw, Paweł Słabiak, Sergiej Zdanov
Premiere: June'01, Krakow

Touring: PL

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ZERO 

Directing, set design, text: Andrzej Sadowski
Cast:
Zeroman - Andrzej Sadowski
Tay's - Zbigniew Kozłowski, Jacek Milczanowski
Marek Lelek, Jacek Wojciechowski
Music: Herrkopf (Małgorzata Tekiel, Paweł Muzyka, Jacek Ruszkiewicz, Maciej Strojny)
Technician: Piotr Kulesza
Production: Stowarzyszenie Mandala and STEN
Premiere: Krakowskie Reminiscencje Teatralne, March'03

Presented in: PL