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Teatr Modrzejewskiej (Legnica)

“First Communion”

08. 11. 2011 – Tuesday
7 pm and 9 pm
Powszechny Theatre, ul. Legionów 21

About Christian Culture Festival

Christian Culture Festival was organized for the first time in 1997 on 10th Anniversary of the Logos Theatre. In a sense, it extends the idea of Christian Culture Weeks organized in Poland in 70s and 80s of the last century, which were to become counterpoise to lay media model promoted by the State. Lodz Christian Culture Days were organized in churches all around the city, so as to accommodate the artists, spectacles, exhibitions and projections.

One of such places was the John Paul lecture theatre in the vault of the Assumption of Holy Mother Church in Kościelna Street. This is where the Logos Theatre started, before it was moved to the church in Maria Skłodowska-Curie. It was this church that Archbishop Władysław Ziółek gave to the Lodz artists in 1993, and in which the Centre of Creative Communities’ of Lodz Archdiocese was appointed. It is here that the ‘logistic’ centre of the Festival is located, and where some of the Festival events take place.

Traditionally, the Festival takes place in November, on the first Sunday after All Soul’s Day. It usually lasts for two weeks, during which various event take place – spectacle premiers, other theatres come to Lodz, there are exhibitions of invited artists, performances of choirs and musicians, very often not to be seen anywhere else in Poland at any other time. The Festival programme is the result of the whole year’s work of rev. Waldemar Sondka, the Festival Director, who – using his contacts – invites artists who are interesting, out of the ordinary, noteworthy and creating art perhaps not always religious, but always searching and at the highest level. Care for the level of the Festival offers is a permanent rule, the Logos environment has always wished to provide the Lodz citizens with the possibility of contact with art deprived of parochialism, open to the man and as perfect formally as possible.

The Festival is not an activity that brings profit. Any entrance cards are issued as invitations that are free of charge, and the team of the Logos Theatre and all the people engaged in the Festival organization, act as volunteers. This does not mean that Christian Culture Festival costs nothing. On the contrary, to organize such a cultural event at appropriate level is always connected with costs. Rev. Waldemar Sondka deals with organizing means to secure the Festival events all year round. He manages to gain sponsors (without whom the Festival would not exist) and subsidies from institutions that deal with funding culture (without which the Festival could not develop). All that in order to realize the basic idea of the event that derived from the Lodz Christian Culture Days – to enable anyone who wishes and needs that, to live the Mystery through art. This idea assumes a free of charge participation in all the artistic events, which has been the case since the very beginning of the Festival until today, the only condition is that on the day of the Festival opening, one must queue as long as it takes to get invitations. The only limit to the number of invitations is the capacity of rooms in which the events are organized every day throughout the two weeks of the Festival.


 

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“First Communion”

Author: Paweł Kamza
Director: Paweł Kamza
Stage design: Małgorzata Szydłowska
Stage movement: Witold Jurewicz
Music: Krzysztof Nowikow
premiere: 12 December 2010

Cast:

Amelia, Son’s mother, Erwin and Aurelia’s sister - Magda Biegańska
Aurelia, Erwin and Amelia’s sister - Katarzyna Dworak
Ada, Amelia’s election campaign manager - Joanna Gonschorek
Amanda, a one-person advertising and event company - Zuza Motorniuk
Alicja, psychotherapist - Magda Skiba
Anna, religion teacher - Ewa Galusińska
Aniołkowska - Małgorzata Urbańska
Angielok - Anita Poddębniak
Edward - Edzio, masseur, Amelia’s husband - Paweł Wolak
Erwin - Harry, Amelia and Aurelia’s brother - Bogdan Grzeszczak
Ksiądz Edmund, parson - Bartek Bulanda
Eryk, Norwegian, Aurelia’s partner – Paweł Palcat
Eugeniusz, pathologist - Robert Gulaczyk
Emil, engineer, ecologist - Wojciech Kowalski
Emanuel, firefighter - Rafał Cieluch

Modern story with elements of comedy, but also asking serious and rarely uttered questions concerning the believers and the Church.

"First Communion" is one of the most import ant Sacramento in the Catholic Church that takes a Young child to the highest level of Christianity. The Church treats this moment as an important type of initiation. The question is: who is it important for, when the child is sometimes a subject of a game between parents, Church and peers?

The play sets this special situation in the times when Church is no longer protected by its icon in the person of John Paul II. It evokes a reflection of how much faith can be seen in this moment and how much is there of a ritual, church liturgy or just mendacity and hypocrisy?

 

"…the great absent ones in the spectacle are the children who ate the main characters of every First Communion only seemingly. In fact they are pushed away by the adult players of the game, their quarrels over the type of a feast that lost its original sense. In the modest stage design of Małgorzata Szydłowska (a wooden chest that becomes subsequently a table, an altar, a plane, a bath and a confession box) there are lots of things going on. The tone of the play changes – from the dominating comic aspect through the serious tone and to the tragic one; from the painfully down-to- the- point to some flashes of what’s methaphysical.

[…]

The viewer laughs from the funny bits, focuses his attention on the changeable action and is amused by the scenes that follow and are drawn by the well outlined characters. He feels as if in the cinema, watching some bitter-sweet comedy of our southern neighbours, discovering on stage things typical for him and his own world reflected in the distorting mirrior."

Magda Piekarska, "Gazeta Wyborcza Wrocław"

 

About the theatre

Teatr Modrzejewskiej in Legnica, directed since 1994 by Jacek Głomb, is one of the most renowned theatres in Poland. A concept of connecting artistic activities with the city space is consequently realized here. The result of this work are such performances as "Koriolan" (dir. Jacek Głomb, Krzysztof Kopka), thought to be the best Polish Shakespearean spectacle of 1998/99, successfully shown at Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, lavished with awards "Ballada o Zakaczawiu" (dir. Jacek Głomb) or a big hit "Made in Poland" appreciated both in Poland and abroad (dir. Przemysław Wojcieszek).

Organizing I and II International Theatre Festival "City", Teatr Modrzejewskiej invited theatres from the USA, Russia, Georgia, Italy, Turkey, Spain, Czech, Latvia, Hungary and Poland. Their spectacles won three times in a row (the only such success among the Polish theatres) in 2001, 2005, 2007 at the annual Competition for Polish Contemporary Art, organized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

Artists from Legnica are known for their controversial social passion that forces them to describe the current situation of Poland and its citizens, at the same time asking uncomfortable questions. Legnica stage cannot be closed in a box of "engaged theatre". They suggest poetic spectacles that can be universally understood. Teatr Modrzejewskiej tries to dazzle the viewer both with form and content and the only thing that never changes is the excellent acting of the artists.