A show about love stripped of innocent dances and airy aura. Jan Klata places the well-known story of three couples in the Athenian forest, which this time is dark, filled with uncertainty, violence and threats. Midsummer's Eve attracts not intrigues and romances, but cruelty and nightmares. The show is hypnotizing, it talks about love without clichés and buttery eyes, and exposes unclean intentions. It is also a dream within a dream, a theater within a theater, a kind of metatext used by the director to comment on the condition of the artist on Polish stages.
Fluctuating emotions are just another layer of the forest. Here you can read "Fragments of a Love Discourse" by Roland Barthes, listen to Crystal Castles instead of the chirping of insects, there are strobes instead of the moonlight, and the airy alcove is dominated by bondage and BDSM. Pasolini watches the obsessions from behind the trees. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a play about the fact that love is not always beautiful, about the love for the theater, about how it is very easy to get things confused and complicated, and a reminder that the world - and, fortunately, literature too! – he enjoys it. An unforgettable spectacle.
Production
New Theater in Poznań / Poland
Creative
direction, text development, music: Jan Klata
set design, costumes, lighting direction: Justyna Łagowska
choreography: Maćko Prusak
video: Natan Berkowicz
acrobatic preparation: Tomasz Rodak
assistant set and costume designer: Lidia Stachowska stage
manager and assistant director: Krzysztof Przybyłowicz