Kraków dances its day in the Sun
Kraków became the envy of the Polish theatre scene last week when the Sundance Institute rolled into town.
The Institute ran a number of theater laboratory workshops in Kraków and put on a four-show run of its Tony- and Pulitzer-award-winning production of I Am My Own Wife at the Stary Theater. It tells the story of German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who lived in war-torn Berlin and barely escaped execution at the hands of the Nazis.
The play is directed by its original director, Moises Kaufman, who participated in a number of classes and workshops for local playwrights and directors, along with the play's author, Doug Wright.
"The inclusion of a four-performance run of I Am My Own Wife affords the opportunity to present a sample of the kind of work, developed in a laboratory environment, with the very people who created it - its writer, director and performer," said Philip Himberg, producing artistic director of the Sundance Institute Theatre Program.
The Institute ran a number of theater laboratory workshops in Kraków and put on a four-show run of its Tony- and Pulitzer-award-winning production of I Am My Own Wife at the Stary Theater. It tells the story of German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who lived in war-torn Berlin and barely escaped execution at the hands of the Nazis.
The play is directed by its original director, Moises Kaufman, who participated in a number of classes and workshops for local playwrights and directors, along with the play's author, Doug Wright.
"The inclusion of a four-performance run of I Am My Own Wife affords the opportunity to present a sample of the kind of work, developed in a laboratory environment, with the very people who created it - its writer, director and performer," said Philip Himberg, producing artistic director of the Sundance Institute Theatre Program.
