29th – 30th (Monday – Tuesday)

Film Studio

THE TEMPTATION OF QUIET VERONICA, dir. Krystian Lupa

On a base of Die Versuchung der stillen Veronika by Robert Musil

Translation: Zofia Rybicka
Adaptation, director, set design: Krystian Lupa
Music: Jacek Ostaszewski
Assistant set designer: Piotr Skiba
Cooperation: Aleksandra Szydlowska

Cast:
Weronika — Ewa Skibinska
Johannes — Adam Szczyszaj
Demeter — Mariusz Kiljan
Ciotka — Krzesislawa Dubielowna

The Temptation of Quiet Veronica was created in 1997 as a second part of a diptych entitled The Lady and the Unicorn at Teatr Polski in Wroclaw. Krystian Lupa explored in it the mystery of femininity. Basing on Robert Musil’s short story Lupa built a study on myths rooted in culture and clichés of love and women condition passed on from generation to generation. The title character, Veronica, is a young girl restricted by cultural standards and at the same time wary of nature. She discovers love to a man but senses that it would never reach physical satisfaction. Suppressed feelings burst out again in collision with a lustful and impassive seducer. Rich in meanings, very erotic, almost somnambulistic performance with great acting by Ewa Skibinska as Veronica and Krzesislawa Dubielowna as Auntie and disturbing music by Jacek Ostaszewski.

In 1999 the performance was adapted by Polish TV Theatre. It will be now revived at Teatr Polski in Wroclaw specially for the World as a Place of Truth festival.

Duration 100 minutes (no interval)