Director: Artur Tyszkiewicz
Costumes and stage design: Jan Kozikowski
Music: Jacek Grudzień
Stage movement: Maćko Prusak
Lights director: Piotr Pawlik
Cast:
Theseus: Krzysztof Olchawa
Hippolyta: Hanka Brulińska
Egeus: Jerzy Rogalski
Lysander: Paweł Kos
Demetrius: Daniel Salman
Hermia: Halszka Lehman
Helena: Marta Sroka
Philostrate: Piotr Gajos
Oberon: Roman Kruczkowski
Titania: Joanna Morawska
Puck: Przemysław Stippa
Peaseblossom: Nina Skołuba-Uryga
Mustardseed: Piotr Wysocki
Mote: Hanna Pater
Cobweb: Anna Nowak
Titania’s Page: Piotr Olech
Nick Bottom: Przemysław Gąsiorowicz
Peter Quince: Wojciech Rusin
Francis Flute: Daniel Dobosz
Tom Snout: Wojciech Dobrowolski
Robin Starveling: Jerzy Kurczuk
Snug: Tomasz Bielawiec
Theseus i Hippolyta’s Court: Jolanta Deszcz-Pudzianowska, Teresa Filarska, Grażyna Jakubecka, Artur Kocięcki, Witold Kopeć, Magdalena Sztejman-Lipowska, Anna Torończyk
A Midsummer Night's Dream is the most erotic of all Shakespeare’s plays,according to Jan Kott. Diabolical Puck releasing the most primeval human instincts and deceitful rulers of Elves tangle emotions and desires of the protagonists. Eros and Thanatos push them into orgy of love; changeability of feelings and volatile temperaments of lovers becomes their plaything. Novices in the game of love step into the forest following the call of primal Nature. Is there a method in this madness?
Almost four centuries ago, William Shakespeare discovered that comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin tossed by perverse fate. His best plays are lined with this truth.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, his most popular comedy is ripe with humour, and while it piles up amusing situations and raises hearty laughter, under the surface of unbridled fantasy and bravado hides a feature of existential sadness, reflection on passing, loss, unfulfillment…
This silent sadness of the cheerful play cannot - according to the vision of the director Artur Tyszkiewicz- - be covered by ardent eroticism, brimming vitality of the young protagonists, or spells cast by elves.
In the show played – literally – in the rhythm of three cellos and a French horn, one can hear a note of bitter wisdom, which is sold by the brilliant master of irony, Shakespeare, at the price of a theatre ticket. Will we let Will spellbind us again?
Ticket price: from 17zł (students) to 37zł (regular).
Booking information: tel. 81 532 44 36, fax 81 463 86 50; email: biuro@teatrosterwy.pl
Ticket office: tel. 81 532 42 46