directed by Svitlana Oleshko, Łukasz Witt-Michałowski
author of the Polish part: Artur Pałyga
stage design: Marek Braun
costumes: Marek Braun, Tamara Levshina
lightning director: Marcin Kowalczuk
sound : Marek Krupa
music: Mykhaylo Barbara, Jozef Ostřanski
martial arts instructor: Igor Surkov
video: Vadym Hrebennyk, Oleksandra Panchenko, Oleksandra Mushenko
translation: Mykhaylo Barbara, Piotr Pogożelski, Alina Czyżewska, Jacek Podsiadło
Cast: Mykhaylo Barbara, Alina Czyżewska, Dariusz Jeż, Angelika Kujawiak, Danuta Nagórna, Pavlo Saavyelyev, Natalia Tsymbal, Andriy Vakulenko, Iryna Voloshyna
The play consists of two parts, Polish - "Aporia'43", directed by Łukasz Witt-Michałowski (Scena Prapremier InVitro, Lublin) and Ukrainian – “The Decalogue: a local world war” directed by Svitlana Oleshko (Arabesky Theatre, Kharkiv). The artists make use of source materials, historical research and personal experience of interviewing witnesses to relate to realities of the conflict between the Poles and the Ukrainians in Volhynia in1943-47
Both parts of the play feature the same cast consisting of Polish and Ukrainian actors.
The Polish part of the performance is titled „Aporia 43” and refers to both: the Volhynia events (1943-45) when Ukrainian nationalists massacred Polish population and subsequent reprisal form the Polish side, and to contemporary problems of both sides with agreeing on one version of the events. During the last two years, Łukasz Witt-Michałowski has paid many visits to the places where the tragedy took place and talked to the survivors. Each story told in the play is, in fact, a documentary record of particular people and places, a kind of original documentary theatre and the verbatim method. Despite the fact that almost seventy years passed, the case of Volhynia is still present in the minds of the Poles and the Ukrainians alike. Polish and Ukrainian actors address the unsolved issue, open festering wound of unclear situations and murmurings. They provoke both nations to a public debate with their question: is a discussion on such a painful subject even possible?
The Ukrainian part is based on „The Decalogue of the Ukrainian Nationalist, created by a 25-year-old philosophy student. Hundreds of thousands of young people learned it by heart. For them it wasn’t just a document but a call for action. They lived and died this way. From our modern perspective ‘The Decalogue’ sounds peculiar, some of it seems difficult to understand, some is amusing and some – shocking but we have to bear in mind that these ten items signify fates of hundreds of thousands people. Although a shattered mirror can be glued together, it will never reflect a single image again but only its fragments at various angles. It’s like looking at old photos, reading somebody’s diaries, travelling in time and expecting history to teach us something at last.
Tickets: 20/30 PLN
Tickets can be purchased at the box office of Centre for Culture in Lublin and at the venue one hour before the performance.
Bookings: tel. 81 53 603 21