18th – 19th June (Thursday - Friday)

Teatr Wspolczesny in Wroclaw

CLEANSED, dir. Krzysztof Warlikowski

Translation: Krzysztof Warlikowski, Jacek Poniedzialek

Director: Krzysztof Warlikowski

Set design: Malgorzata Szczesniak

Music: Pawel Mykietyn

Lighting director: Felice Ross (Israel)

Cast:

Ewa Dalkowska, Renate Jett (Austria), Malgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Mariusz Bonaszewski, Redbad Klijnstra, Jacek Poniedzialek, Thomas Schweiberer, Tomasz Tyndyk, Fabian Wlodarek

Co-production: Wroclawski Teatr Wspolczesny, Teatr Polski w Poznaniu, TR Warszawa, Hebbel Theater w Berlinie, THEOREM and Europejska Komisja Kultury.

This famous performance was originally created in 2001 and was the first Polish adaptation of Sarah Kane’s drama with such artistic scale and force. Warlikowski explores love in its various aspects – loneliness, suffering, heroic faithfulness, lack of acceptance, and unfulfilled longings.

Superb cast and unique stage design make it a complete sell-out each time the production appears in programmes. Bonaszewski, “using simple yet refined ways of expression, plays an almost gentle, but striking in his brutality, monster,” writes Teresa Wilniewczyc (Notatnik Teatralny 2002/26). Janusz Majcherek, describing Celinska’s outstanding, committed performance, admits that “[…] this is not just devotion, this is self-sacrifice or even – and I’m not afraid to say it – some kind of a new total act” (Teatr 2002/1-2).

Duration: 2 hours 40 minutes (no intermission)