RUDYMENTA

based on B. Schulz prose
an artistic cooperation with Stage International, London
Devised and directed by: Andrzej Sadowski and Katarzyna Deszcz
Cast: Monique Burg, Ruth Jones-Vaughan, Sue Maud, Maria Sadowska, Mirosława Wielowiejska, Michael Jonathan Lermit, Jasmin Novliakovic, Henryk Pasiut, Marcin Rokita, Sławomir Rokita, Andrzej Sadowski. William Waghorn
Production: Paweł Górecki and Stage International and Jewish Culture Festival
Technician: Tadeusz Rogowski
Premiere: June'92, IIIrd Jewish Culture Festival, Krakow

Presented in: PL

 

ASCHE

an artistic colaboration with Czurda Tanztheater, Nuremberg, Germany

Directing: Katarzyna Deszcz
Text, set design: Andrzej Sadowski
Music: Krzysztof Suchodolski
Costumes: Anna Sekuła, Małgorzata Zwolińska
Cast:
Susana Curtis, Jutta Czurda, Stephanie Hecht, Beate Hohn, Zbigniew Kozłowski, Marek Lelek, Jacek Milczanowski, Andrzej Sadowski
Producer: Michael W. Bader
Premiere: May'95, Stadttheater Furth,Germany

Presented in: PL + Germany

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ASHES relates events and experiences taken from the lives of three individual families: Polish, Jewish and German.
The narrative begins in the period between the two World Wars and ends in the present. The historical events of this period are portrayed either in direct relation to the effect they have on the lives of the protagonists, or as purely independent scenes. The birth of Facism, - the sudden wave of antisemitic action   in Poland and Europe, in general -, the war - the mass annihilation in the concentration camps - and the paradoxes of most recent times act more as a historical backdrop to the events which occur within the lives of the individual families, events which can, on a personal level,  be considered to be just  as dramatic as the enormous historical upheavals taking place.
It is a piece about human dignity, about the value of human life, and it is precisely this value which is most easily  and most readily abused.

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/…/ The play, created bilingually is acted with the disturbing intensity of Babel. It's the unaffected sober, presentation which fascinates the audience.
Michael Becker, Abendzeitung Nuremberg