Repertoire
Being Steve Jobs
Dir. Marcin Liber
ul. Starowiślna 21
Premiere
date
2013
When we play
- 15.01
2017 - 17.01
2017 - 18.01
2017
Duration
1 intermission
This performance picks up the discussion concerning the changes that have taken place in Poland since 1989. It focuses on the perspectives of three generations – people who built Polish turbocapitalism, the forty-somethings who fought the changes, and the younger generation who are asking questions about the mistakes that were made and feel the need to square accounts. This drama, specially written for the Stary Theater, features variations on the theme of some famous and not-so-famous figures who have come to live in an unprecedented situation. “Being Steve Jobs recalls a delirious projection of reality. Kmiecik looks at the beginnings of free Poland from the perspective of the distant future; his guides are the last people on Earth. They are beings incapable of making much out of all the commotion in Poland. Luckily, the play’s director knows how to show this confusion on stage,” writes Łukasz Badula on kulturaonline.pl. “Being Steve Jobs is a test tube of the political system – or we might say, the political apparatus – cooked up in a dramaturgical laboratory. It is a thing beyond comprehension; some it praises to the skies, and others it chews up and spits on the sidewalk.”
Everything changes rapidly on all sides in a series of short scenes, with Liber’s night-club aesthetic and the pacing of political vaudeville. The old Party secretary cannot find his feet in the free-market economy, though his comrades are getting on fine. He ineffectively tries to catch up with Wilczek, who explains to him that capitalism is like the Red Queen’s race from Alice in Wonderland – you have to run to stay in the same spot. And to catch up to someone, you have to run very fast indeed.
Witold Mrozek, Gazeta Wyborcza
Cast
- Ewa Kaim GENERAL'S WIFE, COUNT'S WIFE, MESSENGER, GRAŻYNA MILIJON, NURSE
- HALPERN, JAN MILIJON, COMRADE FROM MOSCOW, BISHOP, GREAT HUNTER
- Adam Nawojczyk HORN, FATTI
- Anna Dymna MOTHER C FROM THE SONG
- Ewa Kolasińska HATRED, LEOKADIA BEG, INSPECTOR
- Bartosz Bielenia (a guest actor) THE LAST MAN, YOUNG CLERIC, ARCHITECT, YOUNG WOLF - **
- THE LAST MAN, HOWLING DOG FROM ICELAND, YOUNG WOLF - **
- Katarzyna Krzanowska PROFESSOR IN THE MASCULINE FORM
- Jacek Romanowski RAKOWSKI, GENERAL, TRINITI, JENERAŁ, OFFICE CLERK, DOCTOR
- Krzysztof Zarzecki (a guest actor), Marcin Kalisz (a guest actor) STEVE JOBS, STEIN, MÜLLER**
- Paweł Kruszelnicki WILCZEK, PRINCE, CAPTAIN “S”, EX-CAPTAIN “S”, MP AWS
- Jarosław Majzel HORN'S ASSISTANT
Creators
- Michał Kmiecik Text and dramaturgy
- Mirek Kaczmarek Set design
- Grupa Mixer Costumes
- Filip Kaniecki alias MNSL Music
- Zbigniew S. Kaleta Stage manager / prompter
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