Akropolis
Treating Wyspianski’s postdramatic text as a hard drive, from which one could read snippets of biblical and mythological stories fundamental to European culture, the authors of AKROPOLIS send their piece into the future. From the given data every scenario is possible. In a post-apocalyptic landscape with an omnipresent digitalization in the background, the boundary between what is human and synthetic, between organic tissue and electronics becomes blurred: a syphilis virus that was slowly destroying Wypiański at the turn of XIX and XX century, now has mutated into a computer virus preventing the correct reading of data, but allowing to single it out. Through technology and multimedia the audience is provoked to appoint new meanings in old structures over and over again.
AKROPOLIS – the highest point of the city – looses its geographical meaning and is interpreted as human mind. In such a labyrinth the authors of AKROPOLIS try to find the answer to the question of humanity’s boundaries. And, just like Žižek, they are more interested in the reality of the virtuality rather than virtual reality.
PREMIERE: 30.11.2013
creative team
director — Łukasz Twarkowski, dramaturgy & text — Anka Herbut, stage designer — Piotr Choromański, composer — Bogumił Misala, video designer — Jakub Lech, Karol Rakowski, light designer — Bartosz Nalazek, costume designer — Marta Stoces mizBeware, Julka Porańska, video assistant — Konrad Karolczyk
cast
Bogdan Brzyski, Iwona Budner, Małgorzata Gałowska, Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Zbigniew Kaleta, Paweł Kruszelnicki, Małgorzata Zawadzka
production
Stary Teatr Kraków
