Ewelina’s Crying

How to stay yourself in a world, where our identity creates so many, often conflicting, narratives? This is one of the questions that Anna Karasińska poses her brilliant directing debut: “Evelina’s Crying”. Now in TR Warszawa

The performance’s script comprises fantasies, received opinions regarding actors and actresses, and the image they project in the media. The actors and actresses taking part in the production attempt to play themselves as they may be imagined by someone else. Unable to correct what is being said about them, they remain stuck in their arbitrary and incomplete representations that mix with their private truth. As a result of this multiplicity of roles it is hard to say who is actually saying the lines spoken on stage.

Maria Ankiersztejn photo

Field TR

The performance was produced within the frame of Field TR project – an element of the new talents line programme. TR Warszawa for many years now has been promoting new artistic talents through such projects as:  Warsaw Area [orig.: Teren Warszawa], TR/PL, Field TR [orig.: Teren TR], Young TR [orig.: Młody TR], TR Debut [orig.: Debiut TR], artistic residencies, guest showings of diploma works and performances, repertoire showings of performances co-created by new artists and production of selected projects in cooperation with foreign partners. TR Warszawa provides artistic shelter, where artists may experiment and implement their ideas for theatre.

Within the new talents line in the past artistic seasons, the following directors presented their productions: Wojciech Blecharz (“Soundwork”), Klaudia Hartung-Wójciak (“The Chinese”), Grzegorz Jaremko (“Woyzeck”), Katarzyna Kalwat (“Holzwege”, “Rechnitz. Opera – The Exterminating Angel”, “Maria Klassenberg. Ecstasies”, “Staff Only” – coproduced by Biennale Warszawa and TR Warszawa), Anna Karasińska (“Ewelina’s Crying” and “Fantasia”), Katarzyna Minkowska (“Stream”), Jędrzej Piaskowski (“Puppenhaus. Treatment”, “David Is Going To Israel”), Piotr Trojan (“Grind/r”), Magda Szpecht (“The Possibility of an Island”, “Always Coming Home”), and Małgorzata Wdowik (“The Footballers” and “Fear”).