"You never know what you will remember or be ashamed of..." - says one of the characters in REMNANTS. It's a play about memory, exile and longing for a world that is no longer there. Remembering the inhabitants whose memory has been obliterated, as if they were a meaningless episode.
The adaptation is based on motifs taken from Mikołaj Łoziński's STRAMER, an evocative, multi-voiced chronicle of fates of a Jewish family from pre-war Tarnów, as well as two episodes from W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants. In his book, Łoziński subtly creates an intimate portrait of a large Jewish family at the outbreak of World War II - that is, at the end of an era, soon to be erased by the Holocaust. Sebald evokes the fate of Western European Jewish exiles, constructing his story like a collector: he follows the trail of photographs, his own memories of the protagonists, their diaries, recorded itineraries and forced emigrations. This is a peculiar form of cultivating remembrance.
Production
The Wybrzeże Theatre
Creative
Jarosław Murawski
Based on the motifs of Mikołaj Łoziński's STRAMER and The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
REMNANTS
Director: Ewelina Marciniak
Adaptation and dramaturgy: Jarosław Murawski
Set design: Grzegorz Layer and Ewelina Marciniak
Costume design: Natalia Mleczak
Choreography: Dominika Knapik
Music: Wacław Zimpel
Lighting Director: Aleksandr Prowaliński
Video production: Nastazja Gonera, Tomek Gajewski, Piotr Krygiel, Przemek Chojnacki
Poster design, photos: Natalia Kabanow