The Wooster Group in Warsaw
After the controversial but beautiful Russian ballet, Warsaw will now host an American multimedia soap opera, To You, the Birdie! based on Racine's flagship classical tragedy Phedre, a portrait of a woman obsessed with her sinful love for her stepson.
The Warsaw spectacle will be the play's modern version performed by the Wooster Group from the United States, with the emphasis on the present context of the problem, and combining lots of various theatrical and multimedia techniques.
The Wooster Group, like all the other spectacles by this American theater group, is politically radical, deliberately unaesthetic and intellectually rigorous, demanding constant attention from the audience. In other words, it's not an easy piece of entertainment.
Headed by Elizabeth LeCompte, the Wooster Group was set up in 1975 in New York and has already performed more than 15 similar multimedia shows. Among its performers is Willem Dafoe, known for his cinematic achievements, as Phedre's husband.
Recommended for fans of postmodern art.
To You, the Birdie! will be performed at the Palace of Culture's Dramatyczny Theater on May 30-31 and June 1-3 at 8 p.m.
Tickets zł. 100.
