9th Annual Women’s Work Festival Workshop – INTRO TO POLISH THEATRE with Klara Wojtkowska

INTRO TO POLISH THEATRE with Klara Wojtkowska

Tuesday, March 3, 1-4 PM

Pre-registration required, $50/$30 student (*advance price $25/15, paid by Feb 27/15)

LSPU Hall Cox & Palmer Second Space

3 Victoria St, St. John’s, NL

*To register for a workshop, email womensworkfestivalnl@gmail.com

Jerzy Grotowski wrote that what makes theatre unique as an art form, is the relationship between the actor and the audience member. How do we write ourselves into that energetic relationship? How do we articulate depths beyond the surface-level realism that has trapped our societal conceptions of Truth, in order to harness the fantastic and the grotesque? How do we access the Dreamer within? Drawing on the work of Grotowski and Meyerhold, employing music and poetry, we will be exploring ways of writing language into the body and the singing body into language.

A professional violinist by trade, Klara Wojtkowska strives for musicality, catharsis and redemption in her work. Her first play (The Wake) was produced at Rice University. At Yale University, she wrote and produced two plays – a two-act anti-play, capitalizing on the poetry of everyday loneliness (the river don’t flow by itself no more), and a music/dance/spoken word collaboration (meditation on ANGRY WOMAN). She has written and directed in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. In Poland, she studied at the ARSHARTER theatre school in Krakow. She is currently working on a solo show, A Theory of People, to be performed at the Artifact Dance Studio in Tucson, Arizona, in March 2015.