MEDIATHEK

2012/430 Winner Music Theatre Now 2012 

"In the solitude of cotton fields" - a radical play by Radoslaw Rychcik opens the new Polish theatre to noise, darkness and musical fury. None of the young directors have gone further, none of them have bitten the audience harder. That Rychcik likes to walk the untrodden paths of the scene has been obvious at least since his début "Versus" in Teatr Nowy in Kraków, where he read Brecht by Barthese and the rules of a wrestling fight. Rychcik thinks about the theatre in fully sensual, corporal and motoric manner. All that is important is torn from the flesh, born in the physical torment of the actor, in the shame and insatiability. In his adaptation of Koltes, the director found a shadow of Gener, and then dumped the superficial gay elegance of the French author, his poetic dialogues, tender physical distancing of the characters. He descended into the hidden hell of the text and found darkness, dirt and death. He turned the performance into a concert, a music journey to the end of the night. Dealer (Wojciech Niemczyk) and Client (Tomasz Nosinski) play and sing just there. The transaction depicted by Koltes - transaction of bodies? souls? drugs? word? takes here the form of a furious, vocal fight of two charismatic actors, stylized as rock stars from the 1980s, when the music was a game of life and death, endless orgy of sexual and narcotic destruction. It is as if Nick Cave from The Birthday Party age fought with Peter Murphy from Bauhaus in vocalises and melodeclamations. Or maybe Robert Smith from The Cure with Ian Curtis from Joy Division? Melodeclamated and yelled lines of the characters are transformed into rock protest songs and anthems, the words are intertwined into sounds, the music follows them. In the finale of the performance the two young actors breath heavily. They violated a taboo, they destroyed something innocent in them. The concert went out of control, the music woke up the beasts in humans, the beasts, which will no longer go to sleep. 

COMPOSER: Bartosz Ignor, Maciej Matysiak, Piotr Lis, Michal Lis 

STAGE DESIGN: Marta Stoces

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DEALER: Wojciech Niemczyk 

CLIENT: Tomasz Nosinski 

Natural Born Chillers band: Bartosz Ignor,Maciej Matysiak, Michal Lis, Piotr Lis

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