- ATM Studio
The Second Woman
dir.Grzegorz Jarzyna-
Direction
Grzegorz Jarzyna
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Premiere
April 23, 24, 2014 in TR Warszawa
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Duration
2h
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Tickets
The starting price of a ticket on the first day of sale will be 40 PLN, depending on attendance, the price can reach a maximum of 150 PLN.
Concessionary ticket: 45 PLN
The performance includes some nudity.
About the performance
Grzegorz Jarzyna’s play inspired by the film: „Opening Night” by John Cassavetes is a story of personal and professional confrontation with the passing of time and the relationship between art and life. Cassavetes offers a fresh take on the clichéd metaphor of theatre being a reflection of reality and shows that a theatre can actually be a real place, where one can learn and understand oneself. In the times, when the boundaries between what’s real and what’s fictional are getting blurry, when more and more people live not their lives but the imagined lives of mass culture figures, is seems that, ironically, theatre may be the last place where a person can drop her/his mask and touch the truth.
The performance was produced in cooperation with the City of Cracow and Cracow Festival Office as a result of the Grand Prix award of the 6th Divine Comedy International Theatre Festival.
For organized post-gymnasium school groups we offer introductory workshops to the performance (please contact the education department edukacja@trwarszawa.pl for more details).
Cast
Creators
direction: Grzegorz Jarzyna
translation: Klaudyna Rozhin
adaptation and script:Grzegorz Jarzyna, Anna Nykowska
set design:Chasper Bertschinger
costume design: AnnaNykowska
music: Jacek Grudzień
sound design: Piotr Domiński, Dominika Kotarba
lighting design: Felice Ross
video: Bartek Macias
Production
director’s assistant: Paweł Kulka
scenographer’s assistant: Karolina Pająk
costumographer’s assistant: Julia Sokolnicka
production manager: Agata Balcerzak
production assistant: Katarzyna Koślacz
stage manager: Wojciech Sobolewski
Gallery
photos: Kuba Dąbrowski
Reviews
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Triumph of the middle age
“On TR Warszawa stage, director Grzegorz Jarzyna and Danuta Stenka show the V(ictory) sign. ‘The Second Woman’ based on Cassavetes’es „Opening Night” is a manifesto of artists’ virtuosity, that one achieves with age.”
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“Jarzyna and his actors achieved something extraordinary: they materialized all anxieties and desires of maturity passing into old age. All of our tiredness, hollowness, fury that we are, we will be in a moment beyond what pulses with real life.”
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“’The Second Woman’ (…) is a beautiful, moving and personal statement of an artist who is now mature enough to speak frankly about the environment and space of his everyday work and his personal struggles. This is a story about the reality of theatre and the illusion of reality, produced with immense precision and perfection.”
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A smudge of shadow
“’The Second Woman’ based on John Cassavetes’es film is Jarzyna’s most personal production. A bitter tale about the decline of youth and the deception of theatre with an outstanding role of Danuta Stenka.”
Klaudyna Rozhin’s (the translator) copyrights are represented by Agencja Dramatu i Teatru ADIT
Partners
The performance was produced in cooperation with the City of Cracow and Cracow Festival Office as a result of the Grand Prix award of the 6th Divine Comedy International Theatre Festival.
