Mar 10th - - - 7:00 p.m. - - - Kana Theatre - - - Admission: 15 and 20 PLN

OKNO THEATRICAL MEETINGS. CLOSE-UPS.
Part II. Deconstruction of a narrative.

FRAGILE - performance by Krepsko Theatre.

FRAGILE

"When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beatiful it is and how easily it can be broken..." [Tennessee Williams]

A record player revolving soundlessly, glass and silence: Laura's chamber. Everything is transparent, fragile. It is a site of subjective, meditative and poetic force, and at the same time a site of danger - whenever other people approach...

In "Fragile", as if through a magnifying glass, the authors examine the character of Laura from the Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. The piece asks the question what happens to a person outside from the context of the society. It tells of the infinite interpersonal distances, of the inalienability of solitude, but also of its innate freedom. It is a one actor theatrical form where the theatre space is understood as a co-actor.

Direction: Krepsko und Darinka Giljanovic
Performer: Linnea Happonen
Scenery: Darinka Giljanovic, Petr Lorenc
Music: Luis Fiesta
Duration: 50 min.

KREPSKO THEATRE

Krepsko was established in spring 2001 by a Finnish puppetry student Linnea Happonen and an actor and director Petr Lorenc (1975-2006) as an improvisation ensemble focusing on dance, acting, mime, song and musical improvisation. They are perhaps best known for these weird and wonderful improvisations at various festivals over the last years, though they also perform set pieces. Krepsko is situation theatre - breaking down the pictures that arise on stage and splitting the inspiration of the individual actors into mutually irrational reactions resulting in absurd situations. The Krepsko ensemble creates situations, but beyond this, they look for ways of how to distort them. Decomposition or destruction of the dramatic situation thus opens a wide field for new impulses and reassesses the form of a play as such.

Besides message and narration, the Krepsko ensemble wishes to allow its audience a wider space for understanding and interpreting, as well to give them pleasure through viewing. They do also try to find a form for these purposes that is cheerful and interesting. The world of Krepsko is painfully human, full of eccentric characters, absurd, black humour and poetic playfulness. Almost all their performances work without verbal language.

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