RICARDO FRAYHA
producer

Director Anna Karasińska makes use of the specificity of theatre to explore what it means to be yourself in a world where identity is the product of various, often conflicting narratives. The text blends fantasies with received opinions regarding actors and actresses, and the image they project in the media. The actors taking part in the production attempt to play themselves as imagined by someone else. Other people's visions and fantasies are brought to bear on the performers' true selves. Unable to rebut what is being said about them, they remain stuck in their arbitrary and incomplete representations. As a result of this multiplicity of roles it is hard to say who is actually saying the lines spoken on stage.

 

The author: “The Ewelina płacze (Ewelina's Crying) project came to life as a side effect to my taking part in the Teren TR (TR Territory) programme. It was then that I found it natural to pay more attention to how the place and people affected me rather than to work on the project I had submitted. This is how an entirely new project was born: Ewelina tells the story of what was happening in the sidelines of my actual job, of my reaction to the TR Warszawa. Ewelina's Crying is a commentary on how our participation in the art world affects us, on a wish to meet expectations, and on others knowing better who we are."

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ANNA KARASIŃSKA

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Anna Karasińska is a theater director, filmmaker and playwright who is seen as one of the leading examples of the latest generation of theatre makers in Poland. As such, she has been alternatively described as a major proponent of 'post-theatre' or 'auto-theatre'. Through the means of theatre, she questions the ways of communication between actors and the audience, problematizing the implicit hierarchy between performer and spectator in many conventional theatre performances. In this way she unmasks the mechanisms of art (re)production and how these are embedded in an institutional context. Karasińska attended the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź and the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Łódź, graduated from the Faculty of Direction at the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź. Her student short films, features and documentaries were shown at several dozen festivals around the world, many winning international prizes. She made her theatre debut with her original production of Ewelina’s Crying, staged in 2015 at TR Warszawa as part of the TR Territory (Teren TR) project. In 2016 for Ewelina’s Crying, Anna Karasińska won the Kazimierz Krzanowski Promotional Award at the 51st KONTRAPUNKT Small Theatre Form Festival. In 2016 Karasińska directed The Second Production at the Teatr Polski in Poznań, followed that same year by Birthday staged as part of the Micro-Theatre at Komuna/Warszawa. In 2017 she also directed her another original play in TR Warszawa – The Fantasia that was shown at Dublin Theatre Festival in 2018. In 2018 she directed 2118. Karasińska at the Nowy Teatr in Warsaw. Nominated for the PASZPORTY POLITYKI Award in THEATRE in 2018.

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EWELINA'S CRYING

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Text and direction: Anna Karasińska | Dramaturgical cooperation: Magdalena Rydzewska | Choreography: Marta Ziółek | Assistant director: Ewelina Pankowska | Cast: Adam Woronowicz, Ewelina Pankowska, Maria Maj, Rafał Maćkowiak | Production: TR Warszawa

 

 

Production in Brazil: prod.art.br | Production directors: Ricardo Muniz Fernandes, Ricardo Frayha | Technical director: Julio Cesarini

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Presented in the frame of the Polish Theatre Week at Sesc Belenzinho

Realização: Sesc São Paulo, Adam Mickiewicz Insitute under the flagship brand Culture.pl

Sesc Belenzinho

São Paulo, SP,  Brazil

25 and 26/10/2016