Playback Play #7: Advent
12-15/12/2014
Dwa Osiem, Teatr Powszechny, Komuna// Warszawa, Bazylika Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa
Organized by Stowarzyszenie Plan B.
Curated by Michał Libera and Michał Borkiewicz
Layout by Piotr Bukowski
PR by Monika Zarzycka
12/12/2014
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Dwa Osiem, Zamoyskiego
26a
18.00:
Béla
Tarr: "Werckmeister Harmonies" – screening
20.30:
DJ Lenar solo: dedicated to Béla Tarr's "Werckmeister Harmonies"
21.30:
Joanna
Halszka Sokołowska
solo: Franz Schubert's "Winterreise"
22.30:
Jean-Hervé
Péron,
Zsolt
Sőrés Ahad,
Jerzy
Rogiewicz: "Melancholy of Resistance", Chapter 1: Altered States
13/12/2014
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Komuna// Warszawa, Lubelska
30/32
19.00:
Joanna
Halszka Sokołowska with choir:
Msza
20.00: Richard Youngs solo
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Bazylika
Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa, Kawęczyńska 53
21.00:
Phil
Minton,
Gerard
Lebik,
David
Maranha: "Melancholy of Resistance", Chapter 2: Werckmeister Harmonies
14/12/2014
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Teatr Powszechny, Zamoyskiego
20 (30
PLN)
20.00:
David
Thomas, DJ
Lenar,
David
Maranha,
Jerzy
Rogiewicz,
Zsolt
Sőrés Ahad: "Melancholy of Resistance", Chapter 3: Sermo Super Sepulchrum
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Dwa Osiem, Zamoyskiego
26a (10
PLN)
22.00:
Richard
Youngs,
David
Maranha,
Wacław
Zimpel: Richard Young's "Advent"
*** Program subject to slight changes
ACCOMPANYING CONCERT: 15/12/2014
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Lokal
A-I-R, Marszałkowska 9/15
20.30:
Phil
Minton & Gerard
Lebik
Advent: time of silence and expectant waiting for Coming of the Christ. Lord's anger, plagues and distasters for the sinners; great joy for the faithful believers. Key-words: panic, anxiety, extermination, infatuation. This year's Playback Play will be dedicated to one of the version of this story - sequence of events happening in a small town in Hungary as narrated by László
Krasznohorkai in his "Melancholy of Resistance". An unexpected arrival of circus with a giant dead whale triggers off the advent-machinery: expectant waiting turns into panic, panic turns into riots, riots turn into extermination and all that into a thick description of a major moral position of our times, named by the prolific writer "melancholy of resistance".
Within a short residency in Warsaw, the invited artists will work on a music adaptation of the book. Introduction to the story, "Altered States" will be presented by one of the founding leaders of Faust, Jean-Hervé
Péron; the main chapter – by Phil
Minton; and a final "Conclusion" by a legendary founder of Pere Ubu - David Thomas. They will be accompanied by: Gerard
Lebik, DJ Lenar, David Maranha, Jerzy
Rogiewicz, Zsolt
Sőrrés. The three concerts will be preceeded by screening of film adaptation of the book by Béla Tarra and a „film for an ear” performed by DJ Lenar.
"Melancholy of Resistance" orbit will be filled with a number of other advent events. Joanna Halszka Sokołowska will perform her "Msza" accompanied by a choir and Franz Schubert's "Winterreise” - a capella. For the end of "Advent" Richard
Youngs's piece of the same title will be played by its author together with David Maranha and Wacław Zimpel.
