Restraints and Passages
Two Unique Performances ~ One Soulful Evening
This double-bill offers a rare opportunity to see three international theatre artists in a richly imaginative evening of theater.
Jola Cynkutis of Poland, Khalid Tyabji of India and Diane Edgecomb of Boston will present two one-act pieces strongly influenced
by Zbigniew Cynkutis, one of the principal members of Grotowski's Teatr Laboratorium of Poland. The Teatr Laboratorium created a
revolution in theatre by eschewing narrative text and scenic elements in favor of startling physical and vocal imagery rooted in the
actor's psyche. Through evocative images, movement, text and songs
Restraints and
Passages enchant and challenge audiences while exploring universal themes.
Restraints
Conceived and performed by Diane Edgecomb
Restraints boldly explores the ultimate struggle between God and daemon; the
dark night of the soul.
"Restraints swings soundly into the next world. ...
Edgecomb's juxtapositions prove inspired; she's aware that fairy tales, the gospels and great drama all come from the
same tormented place."
- Boston Globe
Restraints takes us on an intense journey through the spiritually charged
landscape of the religiously insane. Edgecomb creates an unforgettable world filled with ecstasy, despair and spiritual
longing where every path holds the possibility of treachery or transcendence. The central character's survival may
reside in the recollection of a childhood fairy tale or the fragment of a half-remembered song. Etched with moments of
irony, pathos, humor and light, this imagistic exploration is woven through with Shaker hymns, the ecstatic poetry of Rumi,
surreal vignettes and recollected dreams. As the mind seeks to right itself while in the depths of the dark night of the
soul, a struggle begins against the restraints of mind, matter and unshakable delusions in this quest to be re-united with
the divine.
Passages
A theatrical poem with Jola Cynkutis & Khalid Tyabji
Passages occupies a space that is everywhere and nowhere, a landscape of dream
or of concrete foundation - a stage. It is an exploration of themes that connect us as pilgrims endowed with the gift of
passage from birth to final departure. It takes place in both worlds: the earthly and the heavenly, the juxtapositions of
life in death and death in life, waking and dreaming, love and lack of love.
"...Sensitive, humble, ardent, conscious, full of passion and distance...
two people write themselves into the cosmos' and 'universe'"
- Gazeta Wyborcza, Poznan
The protagonists, creaturely and angelic, journey through a gamut of configurations that are touched by the mortal and
the sublime, reflecting both what we strive for and what we shy away from. The language of the theatre is corporeal and
sonorous consisting purely of the play between the two actors enriched with texts drawn from sources in Polish, English,
Bengali and Sanskrit.
Born out of improvisation and the unconscious, researched through action and structured for sharing with spectators,
Passages has evolved through numerous variants over several years. It has been
performed in Poland, India and the UK, most recently at the British Grotowski Conference at the University of Kent in
June, 2009.
September 16 - 19, 2010
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 4pm
Tickets: $25
Students and Seniors: $20
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