Immoral Tales teaser
Teaser for “Immoral Tales” theatre play
Teatr Powszechny, Warsaw
Teaser:
Concept, cinematography, editing by Ioann Maria
Music by Konstanty Usenko
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Immoral stories is a modern treaty consisting of three autonomous parts, that puts forward a question if nowadays sexuality is a space of freedom or enslavement.
I
Merciful God led his finger across the world and named everything; family, home, and the world, and in it ten (up to fifteen) clear rules about how to be happy in said world, and how to say goodbye to the sins of this world, oh, what a beautiful world.
II
We present a story about people that can do whatever they want, for whom the greatest game, the highest rule is to break the rules, to evade bans, to test limitations. It is a story, in which you can’t really get pleasure, you MUST get it, and the bills are paid by someone else, because this world is beautiful, oh, so beautiful.
III
We present a story, in which the world begins anew, where there is no place for violence and hurt. Every person is on their own, even when it comes to physical pleasure, or maybe especially when it comes to it. The Sun raises by itself and sets by itself, this world is beautiful, oh, so beautiful.
This is a story about a house and a family, about theatre, about nature. The authors of the script, Weronika Murek and Jakub Skrzywanek, were inspired by Walerian Borowczyk’s movies, a transcript from the court case of California vs. Roman Raymond Polański from March 1997, and documents regarding modern-day fetishes.
What are pictures presenting sex for us today, in a country where the only widely accepted place for a conversation about it, is a confessional?
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The show uses strobe lighting (a light pulsating with a high frequency) and stage smoke. People sensitive to these kinds of effects are asked to be particularly careful.
Cast:
Aleksandra Bożek
Arkadiusz Brykalski
Michał Czachor
Grzegorz Falkowski
Andrzej Kłak
Natalia Lange
Maria Robaszkiewicz
Directed by Jakub Skrzywanek
Dramaturgy Weronika Murek
Set design Agata Skwarczyńska
Costume design Joanna Hawrot
Choreography Agnieszka Kryst
Video director Ioann Maria
Muzyka Konstanty Usenko
Intimacy consultants Agnieszka Róż / Jewgienia Aleksandrowa
Assistant director Karolina Kowalczyk
Set designer assistant Sara Sulej
Stage manager Iza Stolarska