- Out of repertoire
2007: Macbeth
dir.Grzegorz Jarzyna-
Director
Grzegorz Jarzyna
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Dramaturgy
Agnieszka Tuszyńska
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Premiere
May 19, 2005, Waryński Hall, Kolejowa Street, Warsaw
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Duration
1h 30 min (no intermission)
The performance includes some nudity.
About the performance
Based on William Shakspeare’s “Macbeth”
The story in “Macbeth” is presented as a form of a nightmare. (…) As a mechanism, it
fascinates by its very terror and inevitability. A nightmare paralyses and terrifies. In Macbeth
the story, as well as the crime, is portrayed through personal experiences. The crime is a
decision, a choice, committed at one’s own account and, definitely, with one’s own hands.
The story in „Macbeth” is unclear, the way some nightmares are. And just like in a nightmare,
everyone becomes enveloped by it. (…) One wades through nightmare, which gradually rises
up to one’s throat. “I am in blood. Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, returning
were as tedious as go o’er”
Jan Kott, “Macbeth, or Death-Infected”
Creators
adaptation and direction: Grzegorz Jarzyna
translation: Stanisław Barańczak
dramaturgy: Agnieszka Tuszyńska
set and costume design: Stephanie Nelson, Agnieszka Zawadowska
music: Abel Korzeniowski, Jacek Grudzień, Piotr Domiński
lighting design: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
video: Neurotic Group
projections: Bartek Macias
fight choreography: Michał Stanisławski, Mirosław Okniński
illusionist effects: Maciej Pol
pyrotechnic effects: Piotr Krzyczmonik
Production
director’s assistant: Paweł Kulka
scenographer’s assistant: Olga Mokrzycka
Gallery
photos: Stefan Okołowicz
Reviews
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“The production shocks with a vision of the world where a war against terrorism turns into a war that a human fights against him/herself. Pity that army generals don’t read Shakespeare”
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“The scale of the set – resembling a 3-floor urban fortress in Beirut or Baghdad – is so impressive that, in many ways, Grzegorz Jarzyna’s production ceases to be live theatre, and becomes a kind of IMAX installation experience.”
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“Such liberal take on the interpretation makes for a vividly contemporary Macbeth. In Jarzyna’s hands, Macbeth’s themes of power and corrupted ambition become even more prominent.”
Awards:
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Distinction
Distinction in the competition organized by the Theatrum Gedanense Foundation for the best adaptation of Shakespeare’s dramas in Poland in 2004/05 season
Tours
Lowland Hall, Edinburgh International Festival, Szkocja (11-18.08.2012)
St. Ann’s Warehouse, Nowy Jork (17-23.06, 25-29.06.2008)
TV version of the performance
See the TV version of “2007: Macbeth” on Ninateka.pl (produced by the National Visual Institute, 2006).
