David Is Going To Israel
| Premiera | 08.09.2018 |
| Miejsce | Marszałkowska 8 |
| Rodzaj programu | Spektakle |
| Rodzaj wydarzenia | Out of repertoire |
| Reżyseria | Jędrzej Piaskowski |
Maciej Jaźwiecki photo
Estranged. March ’68 and Its Aftermath.
The new talents line
The performance was produced within the frame of the new talents line programme. TR Warszawa for many years now has been promoting new artistic talents through such projects as: Warsaw Area [orig.: Teren Warszawa], TR/PL, Field TR [orig.: Teren TR], Young TR [orig.: Młody TR], TR Debut [orig.: Debiut TR], artistic residencies, guest showings of diploma works and performances, repertoire showings of performances co-created by new artists and production of selected projects in cooperation with foreign partners. TR Warszawa provides artistic shelter, where artists may experiment and implement their ideas for theatre.
Within the new talents line in the past artistic seasons, the following directors presented their productions: Wojciech Blecharz (“Soundwork”), Klaudia Hartung-Wójciak (“The Chinese”), Grzegorz Jaremko (“Woyzeck”), Katarzyna Kalwat (“Holzwege”, “Rechnitz. Opera – The Exterminating Angel”, “Maria Klassenberg. Ecstasies”, “Staff Only” – coproduced by Biennale Warszawa and TR Warszawa), Anna Karasińska (“Ewelina’s Crying” and “Fantasia”), Katarzyna Minkowska (“Stream”), Jędrzej Piaskowski (“Puppenhaus. Treatment”, “David Is Going To Israel”), Piotr Trojan (“Grind/r”), Magda Szpecht (“The Possibility of an Island”, “Always Coming Home”), and Małgorzata Wdowik (“The Footballers” and “Fear”).
Reviews
- „The brightest star of the mid-season. TR Warszawa and POLIN Museum created a real gem.”
- „Sebastian Pawlak as Halina simply rocks. However there’s more to „David…” than the amazing quartet on the stage. This performance comes dangerously close to crossing a certain barrier of the taboo, that the March events are connected with, namely – it’s funny.”
- „Jędrzej Piaskowski and Hubert Sulima (…) open up the semi-mythological, semi-historical archive to ask if it is possible to write a new chapter in the Polish-Jewish relationship. They ask if it’s possible to create a stage world, that would not refer to the historical context, settle old scores or commemorate the past, but rather become an alternative political space, where both nations (or maybe one, unified?) could find a place for themselves. For that purpose they draw upon substantive residues, exaggerations, legends and afterimages. It doesn’t matter that such a world would have to be full of absurdity that will overturn political correctness. Such theatrical fantasy is very tempting. And what’s more – on the map of theatrical experiments inspired by the events of the antisemitic campaing of March ’68 – it is also unique.”
- „Antisemitism has apparently expired. There is no Polish identity without a Jew – this conclusion lies at the basis of the construction offered by Jędrzej Piaskowski and Hubert Sulima in the performance “David is Going to Israel”. (…) The eponymous David not so much learns about his Jewish identity, but rather is crated to be a Jew from a few pocket symbols. They wait on standby, just like the reaction to them – inevitably hostile. Antisemitism, suspicion or an aggressive look at the stranger are by default present in: jokes, lullabies, stories. It shows itself in the Freudian slip-ups and as the signs visible on the surface. The authors do not share the characters, or the audience, in accordance with their world-view: we all become a part of one, big, Polish-Jewish antisemitic story that is told and practiced together. The last hope lays in Mother of God, the Jewish Queen of Poland – the only one who has the power to lift the antisemitism curse from Poles. In the aftermath of this magic treatment, everyone acts as if they were lobotomized. The diagnosis is quite clear: it’s either our common aggression, or inertia and apathy. Tertium non datur.”