The Other Side of the Mirrors Theatre
presents
MISSION: SPRING
a song-play with moral according to Master Bruno Schulz
Thursday, 2009-11-12, h. 3 p.m.
Wrocław, Mazowiecka 17 st., Centrum Sztuki Impart
Cast: Weronika Podlesińska, Adrianna Lisewska, Paweł Oleksiński, Adam Akerman, Sławomir Kochanek
Direction: Maciej Gorczyński
Co-direction: Alicja Mojko
Script based on the works of Bruno Schulz: Małgorzata Michalczyk & Maciej Gorczyński
THIS IS THE STORY of a certain spring, a spring that was more real, more vivid and dazzling than other springs... For spring’s text is full of meaning in its implications and insinuations, ellipses dotted without letters in empty blueness... . This story, therefore, following the example of that text, will be drawn along many branching tracks, thoroughly intertwined with springtime dashes, sighs and dots.
Bruno Schulz, Spring, translation by John Curran Davis
I - The Birth of Bianka, Me Anna Csillag in tunes of Tumbalalaika.
II - Rudolf's song: 'When Joseph saw Bianka for the first time...'.
III - Bianka. ‘She is so simply able to be Bianka, as nimble as a dancer, the touch of her hand must surpass everything conceivable, Bianka knows everything, Bianka is a riddle to me.’
IV - Treatise on Creation – Part of Treatise on Mannequins: ‘The Demiurgus had no monopoly on creation — creation is the privilege of all souls.’
V - Joseph, who is a Magnificent Heresiarch in Rudolf's eyes, notes that all the lanes converge in Bianka.
VI - Joseph teaches about springtime twilight… ‘We are an eager and articulate collection of melodies…’
VII – Conversation piece in a spring park.
VIII - Street of Crocodiles (Daisy Bell song).
IX - Horses and Joseph’s declaration: 'Count on me..! And To the last drop of my blood...'.
X – Szloma, the local thief, steals a stiletto.
XI – Joseph compares himself to Alexander the Great.
XII – Conference with Bianka.
XII – Rudolf delivers a lecture on masochism by Artur Sandauer – famous expert on Schulz works.
XIII – Bianka’s (queen's ) lineage deduced on the basis of the stamp album.
XIV – Danse Macabre.
XV - Abdication: Joseph confesses he’s an usurper who had imposed his own purpose, his own direction on the spring and warns: 'lest anyone else attempt to guess at divine intentions. No one has ever fathomed the thoughts of spring. Ignorabimus, good sirs, ignorabimus!'’
XVI – Apprehension – Joseph is arrested in the name of His Imperial and Royal Highness on the allegation of dreaming the standard dream of the biblical Joseph before the spring revolution.
