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"Sentimental Piece for Four Actors" at BÁRKA Színház in Budapest
Sentimental Piece for Four Actors
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Written by: Piotr Cieplak and Teatr Montownia
Directed by: Piotr Cieplak
Stage design and costumes: Paulina Czernek
Music: SzaZa – Szamburski/Zakrocki
Starring: Adam Krawczuk, Marcin Perchuć, Rafał Rutkowski, Maciej Wierzbicki
This is already the third rendezvous of Teatr Montownia with Piotr Cieplak. A story of four men is told in a closed, paper-cut space on the stage of Teatr Praga, The nameless characters present the world of single men – their everyday lives, habits, ups and downs. Although each of them lives a separate life, their ordinary-extraordinary destinies cross and get intertwined in a tragicomic finale.
The stories are told without words; with the help of the body, gesture, cardboard, ropes, bamboo sticks, and music of course, thanks to which they will be comprehensible in places of all latitudes. The world created on stage is a paper-cut reality from a dream, with no computers or modern technology, however a reality in no way less complicated; a reality astonishing with its intricate structure… and the intricacy of the theatre machinery set in motion.
“Sentimental Piece for Four Actors” – an authors performance by Piotr Cieplak and the Montownia actors (Adam Krawczuk, Marcin Perchuć, Rafał Rutkowski and Maciej Wierzbicki) is soon to be presented. The actors will be supported with live music performed by SzaZa.
Teatr Montownia has already collaborated twice with Piotr Cieplak. This co-operation resulted in the creation of plays widely discussed and appreciated by both critics and the audience. The first was “The Story of Paradise Lost, i.e. It’s Getting Better” – an open-air performance that combined the elements of biblical tradition and contemporary reality. The second was “The Story of Jesus’ Birth on the Warsaw Central Station”, one of the most famous premieres taking place outside the walls of a theatre, a spectacle defining the place of religion in the contemporary supermarket reality.
Their third meeting is a play that is intended to close the triptych of stories presented by Piotr Cieplak in Teatr Montownia. Paper shoes walking down the pavement, paper birds, rats, sun, even the asterism of Big Dipper – it is easily noticeable that the play requires the audience to activate their imagination, and there can be as many stories presented on stage and as many interpretations, as there are spectators watching.
There are considerable differences between the title-role four men; each of them has a separate outer and inner world. They do not know each other. Nonetheless, at some point in time and space they meet; they have something in common. We see their everyday routine, as well as their habits and fears which might seem quite ridiculous at times. At a moment in the life of each of them there comes a breakthrough and a change. This is a play about the human being, his volatile nature, his weaknesses, habits, his confinement to his own limits, but also about the possibility of overcoming them, and the possibility of change. The change is quite often unintended and takes place by accideident.
