My intention was to design a space, which will connect both spectators and actors. It is a kind of community platform which abolishes the division between the audience and a traditional scenography, which is defined as a space dedicated to actors. Actors and spectators were supposed to occupy this space together at equal rights. The designed space is far from the classical understanding of a theatre scenography and may be rather associated with an installation in an art gallery or small architecture. It is a type of a composed sculpture.
The material used for the construction are plastic boxes. Both shapes and colors of this architectural sculpture are precisely designed but the signs of a slight destruction of individual boxes reflect their actual usage. A series of reportages about simple common inhabitants from Małopolska are told in the performance. Used and slightly damaged boxes are real objects which I had found and which are deprived from their glamour. It was of my intention to use these trivial everyday objects in an original way.
The devil and the chocolate bar
Actors:
Nina Skołuba-Uryga
Jowita Stępniak
Marta Ledwoń
Janusz Łagodziński
Jolanta Rychłowska
Magdalena Sztejman
Daniel Dobosz
Paweł Kos
Krzysztof Olchawa
Daniel Salman
Marek Szkoda
Radek Duda
Miguel Nauie
Theatre company: Osterwa Theatre in Lublin
Month & year of production: 31th of March 2017
Set designer: Agata Skwarczyńska
Costume designer: Agata Skwarczyńska
Other Designers:
Author: Paweł Reszka
Director: Kuba Kowalski
Dramaturgy: Julia Holewińska
Live music: Radek Duda
Choreographer: Katarzyna Chmielewska
Light designer: Damian Pawella
Photo: Natalia Kabanov
