FEBRUARY 26–28, 2015
YALE REPERTORY THEATRE James Bundy, Artistic Director
Victoria Nolan, Managing Director
PRESENTS
SONGS OF LEAR Director Composers Preparation of Songs Lighting Designer Sound Designer Producer/Deputy Director Tour Manager/Media US Tour Representative
GRZEGORZ BRAL JEAN-CLAUDE ACQUAVIVA MACIEJ RYCHŁY KACPER KUSZEWSKI KAMIL PIWKO WALDEMAR TRZASKA MARIANNA WASIK ALICJA MAN´KOWSKA MARA ISAACS, OCTOPUS THEATRICALS
PERFORMERS
ANU ALMAGRO, JULIANNA BLOODGOOD, EMMA BONNICI, ILENIA CIPOLLARI, MONIKA DRYL, PAOLO GARGHENTINO, GABRIEL GAWIN, RAFAŁ HABEL, KACPER KUSZEWSKI, ŁUKASZ WÓJCIK Musician
MACIEJ RYCHŁY
Songs of Lear is sponsored in part by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Root Boy Slim Fund, and Jack Pierson.
Songs of Lear is performed without an intermission. Please join us for a Q&A session immediately following the performance.
ABOUT SONGS OF LEAR Songs of Lear (Pies´ni Leara) is a non-linear dramatic event that shows the world of subtle energies and rhythms that govern Shakespeare’s tragedy. The ensemble members have chosen pivotal scenes from King Lear to weave a story out of gestures, words, and music. Here, the music becomes character, relationships, and events, and each song is a starting point for another “dramatic poem.” The creative process has been divided into several phases: preparation of the concert; dramatizing the songs into an oratorio; creating movement and visual structures; integrating text, music, and movement; and, finally, molding the performance into a complete shape. The performance is a constantly evolving creative research project in which the audience may intimately witness an ongoing artistic process. Songs of Lear had its world premiere as part of the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, where it received three awards: the Scotsman Fringe First, the Herald Archangel, and the Musical Theatre Matters Special Award.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
SONG OF THE GOAT THEATRE (TEATR PIES´N´ KOZŁA), founded in 1996, is a multi-award-winning ensemble recognized as one of Europe’s most innovative training-based theatre companies. A distinctive element of the company’s practice and training is the need and search for connection and openness as the root of authentic experience. The work always seeks to integrate movement, voice, song, and text, creating a performance that has an inherent musicality and connects with the audience on a sensory level. The current repertory includes Songs of Lear and Return to the Voice. In addition to their training and performance programs, the company also oversees the Brave Festival—Against Cultural Exile in Wrocław, Poland, an annual festival celebrating global ethnographic cultural and performance practices that are marginalized or facing extinction. www.piesnkozla.pl