ZAR Theatre (Wrocław)
“The Gospels of Childhood Triptych” OVERTURE
04. 11. 2014 – Tuesday
6pm
Creative Communities’ Church, ul. M. Skłodowskiej–Curie 22
phot. Tom Dombrowski
The chronicle of former Festivals
19th Christian Culture Festival 8 — 22 November 2015
18th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 16 November 2014
17th Christian Culture Festival 3 — 17 November 2013
16th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 18 November 2012
15th Christian Culture Festival 6 — 20 November 2011
14th Christian Culture Festival 7 — 21 November 2010
13th Christian Culture Festival 8 — 22 November 2009
12th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 16 November 2008
11th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 18 November 2007
10th Christian Culture Festival 5 — 19 November 2006
9th Christian Culture Festival 6 — 20 November 2005
8th Christian Culture Festival 7 — 21 November 2004
7th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 16 November 2003
6th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 17 November 2002
5th Christian Culture Festival 4 — 18 November 2001
4th Christian Culture Festival 5 — 19 November 2000
3rd Christian Culture Festival 7 — 21 November 1999
2nd Christian Culture Festival 8 — 21 November 1998
1st Christian Culture Festival 2 — 30 November 1997
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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“Gospels of Childhood. The Triptych”
Part I Overture. Fragments on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
Part II Caesarean Section. Essays on Suicide
Part III Anhelli. The Calling
The Triptych performance is a culmination of the company’s more than 10 years of work with ancient sacred songs. It premiered in London at the Barbican Centre in 2009 and was presented in Los Angeles, Florence, San Francisco, Chicago, Sibiu in Romania, also in Wrocław, Legnica, Szczecin and Bydgoszcz in Poland. Separate parts of the opus were presented among others in Athens, Edinburgh, Madrid, Beograd, Budapest, Paris, Cairo, Seoul, New Delhi, Boston. With presentation of it Teatr ZAR was named Best New Music Theatre from the “Los Angeles Times” in 2009, and in October 2010 it was honoured with the Wrocław Theatre Price.
The Triptych is dedicated to those, who gave us life and those, who gave us the voice — to our teachers.
Overture. Fragments on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
Marta / Maria: Ditte Berkeley / Kamila Klamut
and Nini Julia Bang, Przemysław Błaszczak, Alessandro Curti, Jean François Favreau, Jarosław Fret, Aleksandra Kotecka, Matej Matejka, Ewa Pasikowska, Tomasz Wierzbowski
Project Leader: Jarosław Fret
Lighting: Maciej Mądry
The initial impulse for the project Gospels of Childhood was an interest in the beginning of Christianity. The performance oscillates between two threads: the story of the resuscitation of Lazarus evoked through the mouths of Marta and Maria, his sisters and “the testimony of Mary Magdalene”, who according to some gnostic traditions took a particular position among the apostles and was identified as one of the sisters of Lazarus. Among the texts which appear in the performance there are scarcely known apocryphal gospels such as that of Mary Magdalene, Phillip, Thomas and fragments by Fiodor Dostoevski and Simone Weil.
The songs used in the performance were collected by the company during its expeditions to Georgia, Bulgaria and Greece in the years 19992003. Specially important was the work with the Svaneti people, living `in the highest part of the Caucasus mountains. In their tradition they kept the funeral songs, which have their roots in the beginning of our era. The second musical plot consists of liturgical songs from the Orthodox Republic of Monks Athos. These songs, connected with the Pascha period, build the end part of the performance consolamentum.
The performance is an attempt to tell the “late story of the flesh” — after love, after humiliation, after death; an impossible story of resurrection.
The first presentation initiating the work on the performance Gospels of Childhood took place during the 25th Anniversary of the Centre for Theatre Practices “Gardzienice”. The premiere performance was in October 2003 in Brzezinka, the forest base of The Centre for Study of Jerzy Grotowski’s Work and for Cultural and Theatrical Research.
I am the silence that is incomprehensible
And the idea whose remembrance is frequent.
I am the voice whose sound is manifold.
I am she who exists in all fears
And strength in trembling.
I am she who is weak,
And I am well in a pleasant place.
I am shame and boldness.
I am shameless; I am ashamed.
I am the one before whom you have been ashamed,
and you have been shameless to me.
I am the one you seek after.
[Thunder. The Perfect Mind]