Genre
- Theatre
Language
PolishAge recommendation
16+- Production
STUDIO theatregallery
- Venue
Espoon teatteriLouhi
Services and how to get there - Duration
2 h 40 min, no intermission. Audience members are allowed to move in and out during the performance.
- Language
Polish
- Surtitles
Finnish and English projected on stage
- Notes
Intensive strobe lights, theatrical smoke, music on high volume, nudity.
About
What others are saying
★★★★ “This is monumental, visually arresting theatre that both sucks you into its world and pushes you out at once. The Employees is extravagant event theatre, with transporting effects.” The Guardian
★★★★ “Highly stylish and technically audacious work... Excellent taster of one of Europe’s most exciting directors.” The Stage
Working group
Director | Łukasz Twarkowski |
|---|---|
Author | Olga Ravn |
Text adaptation and dramaturgy | Joanna Bednarczyk |
Scenography | Fabien Lédé |
Video | Jakub Lech |
Lighting | Bartosz Nalazek |
Costumes | Svenja Gassen |
Music | Lubomir Grzelak |
Movement consultation | Rob Wasiewicz |
On stage | Dominika Biernat, Daniel Dobosz, Maja Pankiewicz, Sonia Roszczuk, Miron Smagała (video), Paweł Smagała, Rob Wasiewicz, Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik (guest, audio recording) |
The visiting performance is supported by | Adam Mickiewicz Institute |
Pricing
- Standard42 €
- Small group (4+)39 €
- Pensioner 38 €
- Groups (20+)38 €
- Student, unemployed, under 2624 €
- Theatre professional (10 days before)25 €
- Festival ticket bundle starting from60 €
On Thursday, March 5th, at 5:45 pm, Ville Seppänen, Martta Pesonen and Jussi Sorjanen discuss the performance in the Espoo Cultural Centre lobby (in Finnish).
These pre-show sessions create a shared sense of anticipation familiar from sports events and offer background and context for the performance. More on the &Fest Pre-show Breakdowns.
On Thursday, March 5th, at 9:15 pm, we celebrate the start of &Fest. Join us for the opening night festivities at Kupla after the show.
On Friday, March 3rd, at 5 pm, a pre-show debate will be held at Kupla under the title “I Didn’t Understand Any of This. Is It Okay for Art to Be Difficult? Can the Audience Be Wrong?” (in Finnish). Challenger Silvia Hosseini vs. the Opponent.
Our debates thrive on disagreement – bold, sharp and always with a sense of humour. More on the &Fest Debates.
On Friday, March 6th, at 9:20 pm, an artist talk with director Łukasz Twarkowski will take place at Kupla after the performance.
The first festival week of &Fest is wrapped up in Bar Juoru on Saturday, March 7th.
At 5:30 pm, digital media outlet Uusi Juttu’s culture podcast Kerma delivers a live recording (in Finnish).
At 6:30 pm, an open discussion under the title “I Liked It – I Didn’t Like It” (in Finnish, English welcome).
From 8 pm onwards the festival club goes on in Bar Juoru.
Each festival week culminates in club nights – science, culture, conversation and dancing, all wrapped up in the very best festival atmosphere. More on the &Fest Clubs.
Click to see the full imageŁukasz Twarkowski
Łukasz Twarkowski is a creator of multimedia performances combining theatre and visual arts. He places his projects in the context of extending reality through multimedia. A crucial element of Twarkowski's creative work is investigating the ability and limitations of theatre as a medium and tool of communication. By permanent deconstruction of narratives, questioning the fixed habits of the audience and by meaningful usage of new media, Twarkowski creates a new, original language of stage performance based on multimedia and, more widely, digital technologies. In using these, Twarkowski analyses and observes increasingly complex relations between the Real, the Symbolic and the Imagined.
Twarkowski has received numerous theatre awards, including three Golden Cross of the Stage awards, the Spēlmaņu nakts award, the UBU Award, as well as the Grand Prix at several international festivals.
