Trans-Atlantyk
Przemysław Bluszcz, Tomasz Schuchardt, Artur Barciś, Rafał Fudalej, Tadeusz Borowski, Bartłomiej Nowosielski, Dariusz Wnuk, Artur Janusiak, Krzysztof Dracz, Krzysztof Gosztyła, Mateusz Łapka, Wojciech Michalak, Julia Konarska, Katarzyna Ucherska
Can you escape Poland? – asks the Ateneum's production of Gombrowicz's Trans-Atlantyk.
Poland, in Poland, about Poland, oh Poland. Poland, mentioned in dozens of ways, is the obsession of the characters in Trans-Atlantyk and its author and narrator, Witold Gombrowicz. The novel, one of the most famous in twentieth-century Polish literature, would not have been written if Gombrowicz had not boarded the ship Chrobry for Argentina and, disembarking in Buenos Aires, refused to return to his wartorn homeland. He described his adventures as a fresh-faced émigré in a book which to this day remains a bone of contention between 'real Poles' and those who see no reason to lie down in front of Poland and bow.
set design: Justyna Elminowska
music: Jacek Grudzień
lights: Mateusz Wajda
vocal preparation: Magdalena Sobczak-Kotnarowska
choreography: Maćko Prusak
This performance will be presented in Polish with no surtitles.