Studio Theatre, Łódź
 The facade of the building in Kopernik Street | |
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| Address | Kopernik Street 8 Łódź Poland |
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| Coordinates | 51°45′48″N 19°27′07″E / 51.7633°N 19.452°E |
| Owner | National Film School in Łódź |
| Capacity | 60/120 (small scene/big scene) |
| Opened | 1870 |
| Years active | 1870 - present |
| Website | |
| www.filmschool.lodz.pl | |
The Studio Theatre in Łódź (
History
The theatre was built in 1870 in Łódź in the times of Russia-dependent
Current Affairs
Since 2002 the 4th year students of the Acting Department prepare and present their graduation spectacles as well as engage in their independent artistic projects. Apart from being the place of teaching and presentation, the Studio Theatre is also a place in which various research and artistic projects are carried out for instance: The Festival of Theatrical Schools, Workshops of the European Theatrical Schools, Drama Workshops "Drama in Progress". In the recent years the plays staged at Studio Theatre not only gained liking and recognition among the young audience but also managed to meet the expectations of the drama critics in Poland and in Europe. In 2006 for the first time in history Studio Theatre was awarded The Golden Mask award by the Polish Critics Association for the best play for the spectacle of Sergi Belbel's Łoże directed by Karolina Szymczak. The theatre has two scenes which can seat 120 and 60 audience members.[2]
Notable recent plays
Nikolai Gogol's Marriage
Dir. Georgy Lifanov
A hilarious comedy full of unexpected twists and surprising feature outcomes. Ivan Podkolyosin, an elderly bachelor occupying a prestigious clerical position, upon being strongly encouraged by his close friend, decides to get married. He adopts a peculiar approach to the subject and when he finally makes a decision to step into holy matrimony, in a final moment of prenuptial solitude he arrives at a conclusion that marriage is the most wonderful thing in the world and regrets the wasted time. Right afterwards, upon cooling down he commits an act which can be commented with a proverb: "Do as you’d be done by". "Marriage" is a play that constantly remains popular. It shows the matrimonial stock exchange on which one can gain fortune but be disillusioned. It is also full of contradictions, witty dialogs and superbly developed characters.[3][4]
Translation: Julian Tuwim
Direction: Georgy Lifanov
Set design: Anna Tomczyńska
Cast:
Agafya: Joanna Osyda
Podkolyosin: Daniel Misiewicz
Kochkaryov: Piotr Witkowski
Fyokla: Julia Rybakowska
Arina: Aleksandra Derda
Dunyashka: Dorota Kuduk
Yaichnitsa: Przemysław Kurek
Zhevakin: Mateusz Olszewski
Anuchkin: Janusz Komorowski
Panteleiev: Konrad Michalak
Starikov: Łukasz Chmielowski
Urs Widmer's Top Dogs
dir. Marcin Brzozowski
"Top Dogs – top price class" – people representing the management. They used to be the top players in the game but now they are obsolete. Once they have lost their jobs, their lives fell apart. Some of them still cannot come to terms with reality. They cannot believe that they ended up on the street after losing in the ruthless rat race. They meet in a peculiar place, something between employment agency and a therapy group. They are work-a-holics on rehab desperately trying to find a new meaning to their existence. Top Dogs is a psychodrama which holds the characters hostage, strips them of the lies and illusions which they are feeding each other. It brings out their secrets and deeply concealed thoughts which the characters were frantically trying to bury in their memories. However, the therapy is perverse. On one hand it teaches them how to survive in the new circumstances but on the other it maintains their love for money, power and career.[5]
translation: Jerzy Koenig
direction & scene design: Marcin Brzozowski
costumes: Anna Kunka-Kawełczyk
cast:
Mrs. Jenkins: Martyna Zaremba
Mrs. Wrage: Katarzyna Kowalczuk
Mrs. Bihler: Paula Bąk
Mrs. Schwander: Katarzyna Bagniewska
Mrs. Tschudi: Dorota Kuduk
Mrs. Müller: Ewelina Kudeń
Mr. Deer: Bartłomiej Błaszczyński / Mateusz Znaniecki
Mr. Krause: Łukasz Chmielowski
Mr. Schwander: Krystian Modzelewski
Petr Zelenka's Tales of Common Insanity
dir. Grzegorz Chrapkiewicz
A loony play by a modern Czech playwright and director Petr Zelenka depicts the intense and complicated male – female relations in which solitude and the power of love are key factors. The forlorn, misunderstood, lonely and unloved characters of this absurd comedy filled with surrealist sense of humour desperately seek happiness, love and meaning of life. To regain the lost order and sanity they cling to the most risky and magical ways to turn their lives around. As a result, they sink deeper into madness. Madness, which is not at all gloomy, scary and desolating, but instead more ordinary, more human, less bitter. It is a madness experienced sometimes by each and every one of us.[6]
translation: Krystyna Krauze
direction: Grzegorz Chrapkiewicz
cast:
Petr: Bartłomiej Błaszczyński
Petr's Mother: Aleksandra Derda
Petr's Father: Krystian Modzelewski
Jana: Joanna Osyda
References
- ^ Teatr Studyjny w Łodzi stał się własnością "filmówki" (in Polish) date of access 2011-03-01
- ^ PWSFTviT (in Polish) date of access 2011-03-01
- ^ Udany "Ożenek" w Teatrze Studyjnym - review (in Polish) date of access 2011-02-28
- ^ PWSFTviT (in Polish)date of access 2011-02-28
- ^ PWSFTviT (in Polish) date of access 2011-02-28
- ^ PWSFTviT (in Polish) date of access 2011-02-28
External links
- The National Film School official page (in Polish and English)
- Marriage trailer
- Marriage review (in Polish)
- Top Dogs trailer