10 November 2017 (Friday) 7pm

Maska Theatre (Rzeszów)

“Romeo and Juliet” Williama Szekspira (tłum. St. Barańczak)

dir. Bogusław Kierc

Powszechny Theatre — Big Audience, ul. Legionów 21

“Romeo and Juliet”

directed by Bogusław Kierc
scenography Mariusz Haba
music Jacek Wierzchowski
choreografia: Franciszka Kierc-Franik

cast:
Franciszka Kierc-Franik
Maciej Owczarek
Jerzy Dowgiałło
Tomasz Kuliberda
Henryk Hryniewicki
Kamil Dobrowolski
Malwina Kajetańczyk

phot. Przemek Wiśniewski

“Romeo and Juliet” — one of the most beautiful and most willingly staged dramas of W. Shakespeare — belongs to the Adult Stage. The creators say: “This spectacle is a new outlook on the play by the great Stratford citizen. Some characters have been moved to the back a little, whereas others, which would normally be in the shadows, have been moved towards the light. The stage belongs to Queen Mab from the very beginning. She used to be nice as a child, but also spiteful and cruel, just like a child. The performance is a short but tragic story of Romeo and Juliet, but also about the meaning of the theatre that deals with memory and transformation of human fate into this strange type of beauty that does not diminish or sooth their drama, but neither does it uplifts it, and their surprising non-obviousness is left to the common and ordinary things.”

phot. Przemek Wiśniewski

Maska Theatre

“Maska” from Rzeszów is the only professional puppet theatre in Podkarpacie. It was established in 1953 under the name “Kacperek” as an amateur puppet theatre in Jarosław ad was the brainchild of Izabella Melińska (1911-93). 1956 was a breakthrough in its history because “Maska” was nationalized. For early 45 years the theatre had no premises of its own and was a travelling one, and it was only in 1999 that it moved into its own building with modern stage. The repertoire includes plays for children, teenagers and adults. The artistic oeuvre of “Maska” includes over 250 premieres.

The theatre was performing abroad on numerous occasions in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Iran, Tunis, Turkey, Latvia and Ukraine. It participates in festivals of puppet theatres and frequently receives awards (e.g. in Crocow, Opole, Poznań, Torun, Subotnica, Uzgorod and Zagreb). The team is a laureate of the awards granted by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage for its work for children and teenagers, and the Silver Medal “For Merits in Culture Gloria Artis” (2006).