2008: Macbeth Trailer

Festival Trailer

Jonathan Mills introduces Festival 2012

• Director Grzegorz Jarzyna
• Translation Stanislaw Baranczak
• Cast includes Cezary Kosinski and Dunuta Stenka

‘Brash, aggressively violent and very free adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy’ New York Times  

Military commander Macbeth unleashes a nightmare of carnage and destruction. A war on terror that is a war of terror.  

Acclaimed director Grzegorz Jarzyna’s production, set in a contemporary and brutal middle-eastern conflict, is unflinching in its depiction of the machine of violence, which, once set in motion, works faster and ever more efficiently. If killing in a war is justified, so is killing in the privacy of one’s home. If you can kill men, why not also women and children?  

With spectacular pyrotechnics, immersive video effects and an extraordinary, layered soundscape playing tricks on the ear, Shakespeare’s web of politics, ambition and the supernatural is transformed into a contemporary living theatrical film.  

In Polish with English surtitles.

Supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

TR Warszawa
TR Warszawa has been one of the best known theatres in Poland for over 10 years.

It is regarded as a modern theatre open to new ideas, a theatre that cultivates the best theatrical traditions. Grzegorz Jarzyna  has been the Artistic Director since 1998 and since 2006 also General Director.

The search for a new language of theatrical expression means for the company a necessity of not only reaching for new, contemporary dramatic texts but also of reinterpreting the classics. As a centre for broadly defined artistic experiments, TR Warszawa has been hosting a series of visual arts and contemporary drama presentations since 2000. Previous productions have been presented in spaces outside the theatre, from an old printing house to modern office building.
 
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