"The Emperor" at Teatr Zagłębie — Upcoming Performances
Details:
- Premiere: 5 November 2016
- Running time: 75 min, no interval
Upcoming Performances:
27/04/2017 19:00 Buy ticket
19/05/2017 19:00
| Ryszard Kapuściński — “The Emperor” Aneta Głuch-Klucznik — direction Tomasz Man — adaptation Marianna Lisiecka — set design and costumes Marek Otwinowski — music Maćko Prusak — choreography Robert Baliński — lighting design * * * - Everyone surrounding the emperor is precisely like this: on their knees and with a knife — says Y.M., one of the subjects of the Ethiopian ruler Haile Selassie in a conversation with Ryszard Kapuściński. Others also speak: his officials, servants, palace people. Of servility, fear, competing for favour, submissiveness, and toadying, which for years built the emperor’s absolute power. Of climbing the rungs of power, ever higher and higher. - At the summits it is never warm. Icy winds blow; everyone stands hunched and must watch that a neighbour does not topple him into the abyss. — Y.M. concludes. “The Emperor” is one of the most famous books by Ryszard Kapuściński — the outstanding reporter, also called the emperor of reportage. A universal story about power, book of the year according to “The Sunday Times”, a world bestseller, staged many times in theatres; at Teatr Zagłębie after 15 years since the last production. Director Aneta Głuch-Klucznik on Kapuściński’s “The Emperor”: “The Emperor” is in my opinion far more a form of reflection on the nature of power than a description of a specific situation in Ethiopia. The events described are in essence no different from what can be observed in other states. For me it is a book not about the Emperor, but about the people of the Court — more precisely: about what it looks like, what characterises it, and what it does to people, the fact of reaching for power. The strength of Kapuściński’s book lies precisely in his ability to show the mechanisms and dependencies between “those above” and “those below” in the hierarchy. (…) For me this story is a sad fairy tale (?) about ourselves. Cast: Agnieszka Bałaga-Okońska Agnieszka Bieńkowska Maria Bieńkowska Ryszarda Celińska Beata Deutschman Michał Bałaga Przemysław Kania Krzysztof Korzeniowski Tomasz Muszyński Sebastian Węgrzyn Urszula Czyż: prompter’s assistant Agnieszka Dzwonek: prompter LIST OF REVIEWS OF THE PRODUCTION: The Spell of Absolute Power, Tomasz Kostro, sosnowiec.info.pl The Emperor — a review, Tomasz Sknadaj, Teraz Teatr Humanity — absent, or “The Emperor” at Teatr Zagłębia, Szymon Michlewicz-Sowa, Reflektor The Emperor, Agnieszka Kobroń, Afisz Teatralny A (Non-)Repeating Pattern, Robert Przeliorz, Blog Irracjonalnie Nieracjonalny The Need for a Strong Voice, Daria Sobik, Portal Katowicki A Very Political Production, Marta Fox, marta-fox.blog.onet.pl Entangled in the System, Magdalena Czerny-Kehl, Teatralia |
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