Anna In is an anagram of the Sumerian war and love goddess’ name, Inanna –the heroine of the oldest myth, in which God dies and resurrects, denying the division between life and death. Inanna was the first one. On the basis of her story, various myths, beliefs and literary narrations dealing with the tragedy of mortality have appeared. In the performance “or die” inspired by Inanna’s myth, woman’s body is inscribed into the cold and anonymous, monochrome architecture resembling a labyrinth. Gravitation stops to operate. Time loses its linearity. The morphemes of the primal words build the very new and yet unrecognizable structures. A myth,
just as language, can absorb the horror of death. It can’t be that we are gone. What does it mean gone?

A site-specific performance on the body and architecture inspired “Anna In in the Tombs of the World” by Olga Tokarczuk.

PREMIERE: 09.04.2015

creative team

director — Łukasz Twarkowski. text & dramaturgy — Anka Herbut, video designer — Jakub Lech, sound designer — Bogumił Misala

cast

Marta Malikowska

production

The Gdańsk Meetings of Literary Translators “Found in Translation”