| Year / Length: | 2018, 210’ |
|---|---|
| From: | “Suitcase Packers” by Hanoch Levin |
| Translation into Polish: | Jacek Poniedziałek |
| Adaptation: | Krzysztof Warlikowski, Piotr Gruszczyński |
| Direction: | Krzysztof Warlikowski |
| Set design and costumes: | Małgorzata Szczęśniak |
| Music: | Paweł Mykietyn |
| Light design: | Felice Ross |
| Movement: | Claude Bardouil |
| Animation and video: | Kamil Polak |
| Dramaturgy: | Piotr Gruszczyński |
| Collaboration to dramaturgy: | Adam Radecki |
| Make-up and wigs: | Monika Kaleta |
| Cast: | Bartosz Bielenia, Mariusz Bonaszewski, Agata Buzek, Andrzej Chyra, Magdalena Cielecka, Ewa Dałkowska, Bartosz Gelner, Maciej Gąsiu Gośniowski, Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak, Wojciech Kalarus, Marek Kalita, Dorota Kolak, Monika Niemczyk, Maja Ostaszewska, Jaśmina Polak, Piotr Polak, Jacek Poniedziałek, Magdalena Popławska |
| Stage manager: | Łukasz Jóźków |
| Assistant directors: | Katarzyna Łuszczyk, Adam Kasjaniuk, Jeremi Pedowicz |
| Production manager: | Hubert Prekurat |
| Technical manager: | Paweł Kamionka |
| Set construction: | Paweł Paciorek |
| Sound: | Mirosław Burkot |
| Lighting: | Dariusz Adamski |
| Video: | Tomasz Jóźwin |
| Make-up: | Joanna Chudyk, Monika Kaleta |
| Props: | Tomasz Laskowski |
| Wardrobe: | Ewa Sokołowska, Elżbieta Fornalska |
| Stage: | Tomasz Laskowski, Kacper Maszkiewicz |
| Translation into English: | Artur Zapałowski |
| Subtitles: | Zofia Szymanowska |
| Production: | Nowy Teatr, Warsaw |
| Co-production: | Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris; La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand; Théâtre de Liège, Hellenic Festival, Athens; Bonlieu Scène national Annecy; CULTURESCAPES Switzerland, Basel |
Theatre
Krzysztof Warlikowski - We Are Leaving
Description
Krzysztof Warlikowski returns to Hanoch Levin’s work twelve years after he directed Krum, where his staging of the play followed a totally new interpretation, and was a great step forward in Warlikowski’s career. This time, the director reaches for the Suitcase Packers. Since his first production of Levin’s work, Poland and Europe have faced many dramatic events. Once, Krum would return to his homeland after an unsuccessful foray abroad, full of hope for his next adventures. Now, everyone is packing up or dying. This great migration of peoples across the world is replicated at a local stage in Levin’s text, as a mirror of all the anxieties and movements taking place on a grand scale. We do not know where Levin’s characters are headed but everyone is doubtlessly trying to get as far away as possible from “here”, but nobody wants to leave their own home.
When returning to his favourite authors, Warlikowski never settles for well trodden paths.
A rebellion is brewing, a fight of maturity against the attempted appropriation of territories of freedom, and imprisonment within peaceful regimes in exchange for submission. Life is never peaceful even when there is no politicising, let alone when the times are turbulent! Levin’s work, as the starting point for the performance, offers a wonderful gallery of characters who will be brought to life by the performers in Krzysztof Warlikowski’s company at Nowy Teatr in Warsaw.