ETA KANTOR SEASON 2022

Part of Rose Bruford College’s 2022 Alternative Dramaturgy Season.

A season of original works created by graduating students of BA (hons) European Theatre Arts in close collaboration with students of BA (Hons) Creative Lighting Control, BA (Hons) Design for Theatre & Performance, BA (Hons) Lighting Design, and BA (Hons) Stage & Events Management.

These works emerge from the collision of individual contemporary directors’ practice with the ideas and methodologies of seminal Polish artist and theatre-maker Tadeuz Kantor.

FANTASY IS A PLACE WHERE IT RAINS
In Fantasy is a place where it rains you’ll see dead trees swinging, a falling sofa, and an empty bathtub.

There will be a feminist bit, a first date, a family dinner with no food.

We can promise you an ambiguous touch, the distant sound of the rain and a band playing Alone.

Someone returning home from a long day of work.

An impossible kiss.

Enough. If we continued, we’d reveal too much.

Don’t expect too many surprises though, you’ll just see a bit of life, death and whatever is that thing that happens in between.

Venue: Barn Theatre

Show 1: 9th Feb, 6pm

Show 2: 10th Feb, 8pm

GOOD MOURNING!
The wheel of history turns, the cycle of life rolls on and

dictatorships, revolutions, deaths and rebirths occur in a locked barn whose inhabitants

have turned it into a garden. Pull up a chair and come and join us amongst the

plants and music for this party, funeral, forest.

Venue: Barn Theatre

Show 1: 10th Feb, 6pm

Show 2: 11th Feb, 8pm

MAMMALIA

Playing with Kantor playing with Witkiewicz in pursuit of the uncanny.

Our starting point was The Pragmatists, a play by Witkiewicz (aka Witcacy), the enfant terrible of Polish theatre in the early 20th century. Many of Kantor’s groundbreaking productions were inspired by Witkiewicz’s work. Using Kantor’s manifestos to investigate the text, we began a process of exploring our own memories and ideas inspired by the play. In Kantor’s words, it focused 'on attempts and nothing but attempts…often futile, full of mistakes, corrections, changes, variation, and repetitions’. We engaged in a playful dialogue with Witkiewicz’s text and characters which has led us to this hybrid creation.

Venue: Barn Theatre

Show 1: 9th Feb, 8pm

Show 2: 11th Feb, 6pm