EMBASSY - TEATR USTA USTA REPUBLIKA (Poland)

“Site sensitivity” is one of the distinguishing marks of the Poznań-based group – and, at the same time, one of its biggest assets. Departure from the classically understood theatre hall instigated a multilevel game with space in which its individual parts began to function not only as elements of scenography, but also as characters of a drama. Projects of the Poznań-based Usta Usta Republika Theatre require activity of its spectators. There are no comfortable chairs from which one peeks at the efforts of the actors. Paradoxically, the staging’s impetus does not destroy an intimate and personal nature of these experiences. The Embassy is an action, built each time anew in a building adapted specifically for this purpose. It is a kind of Kafkaesque thriller about seeking asylum outside the boundaries of oppressive reality. It makes the audience similar to millions of immigrants in the world; people escaping war and famine, but a personal misfortune. The key to freedom is hidden in the Internet – the only think you have to do is to fill in an application on the web page www.ambasada.com. There we confess our most intimate secrets – we denounce ourselves. We will have a night encounter in a cafeteria with a mysterious envoy of a diplomatic post, followed  by an anxious driving through the empty city. Passing through the halls and corridors of the embassy we wuld meet people whose fate shows the complex nature of the modern world. But it is also a mirror of our confusion and loneliness. Asylum becomes an illusion.

premiere: July 2007
script: Wojciech Wiński, Ewa Kaczmarek, Kamil Macejko, Ilona Binarsch, Sebastian Zielinski, Arek Kos
director: by Wojciech Wiński
costumes: Ilona be
music: SNOWMAN

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AMBASADA - TEATR USTA USTA REPUBLIKA (Polska)
AMBASADA - TEATR USTA USTA REPUBLIKA (Polska)
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Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego
The festival was supported by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

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