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    HELL - HEAVEN                                  

Let bend our ears over Hell to hear cries of condemn souls. A tyrant by the name Dionizy built a prison in the shape of an ear, so that he would hear condemns' cries and agony through a little hole.

CONTENTS:War between the spirit and the body - Dance macabre - Hell, that is excess of imagination - Banquet - Dreadful stench of Hell - A history lesson - Russian roulette - Another hell that is soul's suffering - Fire - Not bad enough or not good enough that is - a waiting room - Heaven that can't be portrayed - but one must try - A stop at the end of the world - Life that is a small idyll.

© Janusz Tartyłło

Players:
ELWIRA ROMAŃCZUK, JACEK MILCZANOWSKI, EENIE MEENIE MO, MARCIN POPCZYŃSKI, OLGA PRZEKLASA - WÓJCIK, PIOTR RYBAK, ROBERT ŻUREK
Scenario, produced and directed by :
WIESŁAW HOŁDYS
Stage - design and costumes by:
DOROTA MORAWETZ
Music by:
MAURYCY J. KIN - WEDNESDAY RADIO
Sound - engineer:
MAŁGORZATA TETERUK
Assistant of the director, promotion:
KINGA PIECHNIK

First Night: November 10, 2001

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The text adapted by the director is a morality play surely unknown to the audience. The central character called "Everyman" is an ordinary person - everybody. The morality play consist of several books and can be associated with "The Devine Comedy" by Dante. The difference is that the journey to the underworld begins not in a forest but in a baggage storage compartment. An interesting device used in the performance is the connection of two aesthetics. On the one hand - acting and the way of presentation are rather symbolic with such elements as grotesque and macabre of onirical character; on the other hand - the harshness of the genre is in sharp contrast to the poeties of dream. We should realize that morality plays since medieval times have treated the conversion of "Everyman" with deadly seriousness.

In the original text the vision of the underworld is supposed first of all to frighten then to convert to devotion. But in the performance all the harshness of the morality olay is softened by alien elements like children games and texts of train schedules and calendars. The effect is clear - the performance becomes more like a parabola then a sermon. It's lightness is pleasing to the audience and Father Boleslaviusz's suggestive visions can really appear as a dream.

Sylwia Dębowska,
Ha - Art, 2002, January
Translated from Polish by Ewa Ryks

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"The text adapted by the director is a morality play unknown to the audience. The central character called "Everyman" is an ordinary person-everybody. The play can be assotiated with "The Devine Comedy" by Dante. The difference is that the journey to the underwold begins not in a forest but in a baggage storage compartment. An interesting device used in the performance is the connection of two aesthetics. On the one hand, acting and the way of presentation are rather symbolic with such elements as grotesque and macabre; on the other hand, the harshness of the genre is in sharp contrast to the poetics of dream. We should realize that morality plays since medieval times have treated the conversion of "Everyman" with deadly seriousness. In the orginal text the vision of the underwold is supposed first of all to frighten then to convert to devotion. But in the performance all the harshness of the morality play is softened by alien elements like children games and texts of train schedules and calendars. The effect is clear - the performance becomes more like a parabola then a sermon. Its lightness is pleasing to the audience and Father Boleslawiusz's suggestive vision can really appear as a dream."

Bulletin of The Third International Theatre Festival "Rainbow",
St. Petersburg, 10 - 17. 05. 2002

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We are glad to inform that member of Mumerus team
Elwira Romańczuk
received adiploma juryof the Third International Theatre Festival Rainbow in St. Petersburg for doing a female part in the production "The Hell-Heaven".

Verdict of the jury
Congratulations

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