KONTRAPUNKT dayIX

The KANA Theater is an OFF theater and that is why KONTRTAPUNKT's proposals that differ from the mainstream are staged there.

Most often they are bold performances, touching painful social and moral issues, and sometimes they are just happenings.

It is difficult to classify today's performance into a specific category because it had elements of each of them.

A lot was happening on the stage, and the interpretation of what we mainly watched, because there was less spoken text, can be very arbitrary.

The actors physically did their best and more ...

"Findings"

 "Usta / lenia" is an original performance by Edward Gramont, the leader and founder of the TERMINUS A QUO Theater, in which he once again unmasks Polish customs. The performance is kept in a light, humorous tone, although it emanates sarcasm and irony. "is the cabaret tone of the deformed legend about Robin Hood. This legend, which seems to be inconsistent with Polish reality, allows for a clear echo of the ironic truth about religion and faith. There is also a bit of Greek mythology in it, but that's not really about Zeus here.

The shifting of the center of gravity of complex matters of faith, which is referred to as if casually, as if without any connection with the whole, however, does not make the theatrical or cabaret elements give way to journalism or demagogy when discussing such important social and moral issues."

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