III Furies

Theatre in Legnica (Poland)

Original title III Furie

Running time 1 hour and 50 minutes. No interval.
The peformance is in Polish with English subtitles.
Première 8 March 2011, Piekary Stage, Helena Modrzejewska Theatre

Director and set designer Marcin Liber
Dramaturgic patron Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk
Costume designers Mixer Group
Stage movement Iwona Pasińska
Author of the fresco, inspired by the painting "Melancholia” by Jacek Malczewski Tymek Jezierski
Authors of live music My Adrenalin/Radio Error

Cast
Kasandra/Traveller 1/Stasia Katarzyna Dworak
Mrs. Markiewicz Ewa Galusińska
MC Apollo Rafał Cieluch
Danuta Mutter/Stefania Mutter Joanna Gonschorek
The Blessed Virgin /Traveller 2/Hanka Małgorzata Urbańska
SS-man/Traveller 1/Priest Robert Gulaczyk
Peasant Edek/Traveller 2/Worker Bartosz Bulanda
Stefan-Herakles Mariusz Sikorski
Sirenes Radio Error

A story about contemporary Poland entrenched in wartime trauma and timeless obscurantism. The main character, primitive Danuta Mutter, smothers her three children with her own hands, so they can no longer interfere with her husband’s TV-watching. Then she gives birth to her fourth child, the mentally handicapped Dzidzia … A parallel thread in the story is the trial of Stefan-Herakles Markiewicz – an executioner-sadist from the AK (Home Army) – based on a true story. Two sides of the same reality, two forms of Polish abomination. A rapacious vision of ourselves and our neighbours, of our hidden, disgusting thoughts, of our stupid acts and our claims to the world. III Furies violently breaks down all taboos, with a force that is not only destructive but cleansing as well.