THREETWOONE 2- REVIEWS +

/…/ There was an interesting development, though Mandala Theatre Company presents anti-street theatre.
Kate Basset, THE TIMES

/…/ I was delighted with Stowarzyszenie Mandala from Kraków. ‘22/7”... is a calm, witty performance for five actors and three slides.
Paweł Kwaśniewski, GAZETA WYBORCZA

/…/ Poetical performance dealing with the problem of the unification of culture, attributing itself to worlds of imagination of Kafka, Schulz, Kantor.  
Tadeusz Kornaś, DIALOG

A. Sadowski’s theatre is an excellent workshop on contemporary theatre piece.
Elżbieta Binswanger - Stefańska, DZIENNIK POLSKI
Combining theatrical techniques and conventions produces most interesting effects in the Mandala’s performances.
Jacek Busiakiewicz / Gazeta Festiwalowa ŁST
It has been claimed that avant-garde theatre does not really exist any more. RafaŁ Zięba / Gazeta Festiwalowa ŁST

/…/ Permeated with irony, openly auto-thematic - it poked fun at the readiness to intellectualise a theatrical message (...) The audience was able to fill the action frame ( destiny?, suffering?, waiting?, death?) with its own images or satisfy itself with a game of comic associations.
Ewa Łubieniewska, DZIENNIK POLSKI
The idea of a performance as a rehearsal (or even its pretence) frees the avant-garde quest from the responsibility to answer the basic existential questions. Self-ironical ‘I don’t know’ is Sadowski’s answer to his own question about the issue crucial to the interpretation of the performance. Viewed form a certain perspective his projects seem very consistent; it is no longer auto-creation, it is a conscious attempt at reviving the genre: ‘more distance, ladies and gentleman, let’s not be so dead serious!’
Łukasz Drewniak, TYGODNIK POWSZECHNY

Those lucky ones to have seen it kept saying that it was a real feast. something worth waiting for in a crowd.
Roman Nadaj, TYGODNIK CIECHANOWSKI

/…/ This outside layer, woven from ridicule, a bit annoying with its over-expansion constitutes a pre-planned way of communication, which requires a reflection upon your own laughter. The performance wants to convey a truth about motionless life, necessity to pretend and wear masks. For in real life there are no pure forms - tragedy dances with comedy. Anna Wierzchowska, DIDASKALIA

/…/ Threetwoone 2 is a masterpiece of the absurd...for the piece which Sadowski presents is the theatre which pokes fun at itself.
Ronald Schenkel, LUZERNE ZEITUNG

In the dream piece "Threetwoone 2" five energetic actors unleash a spectacular panorama of the subconscious. In brilliantly portrayed sequences they plumb the emotional depths of a mythically aware society.
Volker Diettmar, NUREMBERGER ZEITUNG

/…/ A display of human failure, inadequacy and absurdity, sharply highlighted by ironical of catholicism.
NEUE ZUERCHER ZEITUNG

/…/ Mandala Company convinces us by the sheer impossibility of it’s undertaking:
- a dramatisation of the the Apocalypse theme...
- 21 scenes employing the absolute minimum of theatrical devices...
- self contained, tragic and extremely comic at one nad the same moment...
- everything has its origin in the crative power of the individual actor...
- the actors are outstanding...
- brilliant parodies of the provincial theatre, experimental theatre and psychodrama...
- its hard to find words to describes it...
Erika Acherman, TAGES-ANZEIGER

/…/ Irrational, frightening, farcical and very crazy...
Catherine Lockerbie, SCOTSMAN