Once someone told me a strange story. A strange story about a strange man.

  • Marszałkowska 8

EP

dir.Kuba Krzewiński, Agnieszka Jakimiak Buy a ticket
  • Directors

    Kuba Krzewiński, Agnieszka Jakimiak

  • Premiere

    13 September 2024

  • Duration

    1 hour

  • Tickets

    Regular ticket: 50 PLN
    Concessionary ticket: 30 PL

    Normal group ticket (over 10 people): 30 PLN

     

Cast

(contrabass)

Łukasz
Owczynnikow

Adam
Stoyanow

About the performance

“ep” (sign language): 1. weird, unpleasant; 2. (to feel) uncomfortable.

“Ep” is the notation of a sign created by the Deaf community (of Warsaw), which has no equivalent in spoken language.

What is “weird,” who is “weird” and when? How do we determine that which is supposedly “normal” and that which deviates from the supposed “normal”? Is “weird” dangerous, or quite the opposite: is it a refuge for those who can’t express themselves in a different way?  Why is “weird” perceived as a threat in society, while “normality” can be risky in theatre and contemporary art?

Ep is a play about the “weird,” about how groups of people can be strange to each other. And about seeking new languages of communication.

The point of departure for the play Ep was Kuba Krzewiński’s piece of the same title composed in 2018 for Deaf Poet Adam Stoyanov, bassist Łukasz Owczynnikow and for multimedia. This time, they are also joined by TR Warszawa actor Monika Frajczyk.

Trigger warnings

The performance includes some nudity. Low-frequency sounds and strobe lights are used in the performance.

Creators

direction: Agnieszka Jakimiak, Kuba Krzewiński

screenplay, composition: Agnieszka Jakimiak, Kuba Krzewiński

author of sign script and sign poetry: Adam Stoyanov

scenography, video, costumes, lights: Michał Dobrucki

assistant scenography: Marysia Godlewska

assistants directors: Piotr Piotrowicz, Wojciech Sobolewski

PJM translatior: Marlena Florczyk

production: Magda Igielska (TR Warszawa), Anna Makowska, Michał Mendyk(Fundacja Automatophone)


technical manager: Michał Golasa
deputy technical manager: Andrii Pogorielov
sound engineers: Piotr Domiński, Andrij Pogorielov, Jakub Sapka, Jerzy Szelewicz
video producers: Łukasz Karzewski, Maciej Kaszyński, Marcin Metelski
lighting engineers: Daniel Sanjuan Ciepielewski, Jędrzej Jęcikowski, Konrad Kajak, Kacper Stykowski
makeup artists: Milena Jura, Dominika Zatońska,
wardrobe assistants: Elżbieta Kołtonowicz, Teresa Rutkowska
master carpenter: Łukasz Winkowski
props: Mariusz Basiak, Marcin Puanecki, Tomasz Trojanowski
stage crew: Mariusz Basiak, Paweł Iwaniuk, Marcin Puanecki, Tomasz Trojanowski, Łukasz Winkowski
decoration constructor, welder: Tomasz Ciężarek
carpenter: Tadeusz Tomaszewski

Photos

fot. Adrian Lach


The Spectacle makes use of works of John Cage: “Lecture on Nothing” and “4’33””.

The performance is co-organized by Automatophone Foundation and Jasna 10: Warsaw Luminary of Krytyka Polityczna as part of the implementation of the public assignment “Jasna 10: Social Institution of Culture” funded by the City of Warsaw.

Subsidized by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Cultural Promotion Fund.

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