Ballades and Romances

Ballades and Romances
based on Adam Mickiewicz's Ballades and Romances
dir. Piotr Soroka, Zdenka Pszczołowska, Błażej Peszek

Creative Team

direction:

  • episode. 1 Romantyczność Piotr Soroka
  • episode. 2 Świteź Zdenka Pszczołowska 
  • episode. 3 Lilije Błażej Peszek
  • set and costume design Anna Oramus
  • music Magda Pasierska, Szymon Tomczyk
  • lighting direction Bogumił Palewicz
  • choreography (Zdenka Pszczołowska's episode) Oskar Malinowski
  • intimacy consultant Marzena Kopczyńska

Cast

Romantyczność

  • Karusia Agnieszka Dziewa
  • Ghost of Jaś Eloy Moreno Gallego/Jakub Pewiński

Świteź

  • Anomila, resident of Tuhanowicz Agnieszka Kulińska
  • Pinirilla, resident of Tuhanowicz Sandra Kromer-Gorzelewska
  • Jerzy Iwan, soldier of the tsarist army, friend with the inhabitants of Tuhanowicz Jan Kochanowski
  • Kosma, resident of Tuhanowicz Krzysztof Szczepańczyk
  • Maurycy Naukoviec, researcher of Lake Świteź, which is located on the site of Tuhanowicz Artur Borkowski

Lilije

  • Artur Borkowski
  • Izabela Cześniewicz
  • Mariusz Sikorski (gościnnie)

Premiere:
20 October 2022
Centrum Sztuk Performatywnych | PIEKARNIA

Duration:
90 minut (no intermission)

Suitable for audiences aged:
18+

 

Attention: the performance contains scenes of nudity and scenes with dynamic lighting effects that may affect viewers with photosensitive epilepsy or other photosensitivity

Ballads and Romances is a theatrical realization of Mickiewicz's ballads in the convention of group pantomime and an attempt to transfer them into the language of the theater of movement. The huge pantomime potential inherent in Ballads..., i.e. strong and expressive characters, mystery, fantasy and horror, are a great pretext to implement them in the form of group pantomime, theater of movement or playing with words.


Three directors - Zdenka Pszczołowska, Błażej Peszek and Piotr Soroka - each prepared one part of the performance, an episode. That makes the presentation of various ways of reading and transferring romantic ideas to the stage.


In the performance, live music is performed by musicians from Wrocław, Magda Pasierska and Szymon Tomczyk

On-show technical stage management:

  • set editor, technical manager KRZYSZTOF KOWALSKI
  • lights BOGUMIŁ PALEWICZ
  • sound PRZEMYSŁAW CIEŚLA
  • wardrobe assistant EDYTA KRYSIEWICZ
  • stage manager KATARZYNA RADOMSKA
  • photoes in gallery NATALIA KABANOW
  • teaser MICHAŁ STENZEL

All soundscapes and Foley effects used in the performance were recorded in the village of Wojnowice near Ćmielów, except for the realistic water effect prepared by: Grant Devonshire-Ryan (www.asleepinperfection.com)

Competitions

  • VIII ‘Living Classics’ Competition
  • 13. Young Directors Forum (Romantyczność)

Awards and special mentions

47. OPOLE THEATRE CONFRONTATIONS 'LIVING CLASSICS'

  • Award for Music and its Performative Execution: Szymon Tomczyk i Magda Pasierska

BESTS OF THE SEASON 2022/2023 ACCORDING TO TEATR MAGAZINE

  • Best Music/Sound Direction: Magdalena Pasierska i Szymon Tomczyk (Kamil Bujny)
  • Best Music/Sound Direction: Magda Pasierska i Szymon Tomczyk (Maryla Zielińska)

Przedstawienie dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego pochodzących z Funduszu Promocji Kultury oraz z budżetu Województwa Dolnośląskiego.