"O N C E..."
So... a tale was born…
It happened. Two people fell in love. The world woke up, sensing Love… The cave dragons, the mountain clouds, the cardboard-policemen and nine sea-captains, the cheeky-judge, the beacon-hut, the dumb-head on wheels and the self taught Cupid… “Lida” the Leg and “Boris” the Unicorn... all came to gaze at Love.
But She and He felt cramped in this world, flying away on a pocket comet they searched for the "City of Sweethearts".
They ascended higher and higher in the sky. Passed the floating castle of the weeping fish, on a flying cactus between the giant leg gates of Piero, she slipped, he grabbed her by the arm and she vanished in his palm...
Only that she slept during the day and he at night. They did not dare to wake each other, but just whispered the dreams to one other.he dreamed of being a hero, she dreamt of being a princess, whispering their dreams to each other they did not dare to wake and succumb to the bloody battle that ragged…
During one of the many nasty weathered days, the lightning of love struck down their hearts and this tale drifts through the laughter and tears from the clumsy cupid, the elegant evil and the picky death, till the unknown end.
“ONCE…” – is a fairytale dedicated to the eternal child living in us all.
It happened. Two people fell in love. The world woke up, sensing Love… The cave dragons, the mountain clouds, the cardboard-policemen and nine sea-captains, the cheeky-judge, the beacon-hut, the dumb-head on wheels and the self taught Cupid… “Lida” the Leg and “Boris” the Unicorn... all came to gaze at Love.
But She and He felt cramped in this world, flying away on a pocket comet they searched for the "City of Sweethearts".
They ascended higher and higher in the sky. Passed the floating castle of the weeping fish, on a flying cactus between the giant leg gates of Piero, she slipped, he grabbed her by the arm and she vanished in his palm...
Only that she slept during the day and he at night. They did not dare to wake each other, but just whispered the dreams to one other.he dreamed of being a hero, she dreamt of being a princess, whispering their dreams to each other they did not dare to wake and succumb to the bloody battle that ragged…
During one of the many nasty weathered days, the lightning of love struck down their hearts and this tale drifts through the laughter and tears from the clumsy cupid, the elegant evil and the picky death, till the unknown end.
“ONCE…” – is a fairytale dedicated to the eternal child living in us all.
Created and Directed by Anton Adasinsky and Derevo Labolatorium
Scenography Maxim Isaey
Music: Andey Sizintsev & Dmitry Abramov
Lights: Igor Formin / Jędrzej Skajster
Sound: Mateusz Kacprzyk
Performing: Paulina Staniaszek / Aleksandra Batko, Ewelina Grzechnik / Maja Rękawek,
Paweł Kulesza, Maciej Jan Kraśniewski, Bartłomiej Ostapczuk
Duration 75 min. without break
Scenography Maxim Isaey
Music: Andey Sizintsev & Dmitry Abramov
Lights: Igor Formin / Jędrzej Skajster
Sound: Mateusz Kacprzyk
Performing: Paulina Staniaszek / Aleksandra Batko, Ewelina Grzechnik / Maja Rękawek,
Paweł Kulesza, Maciej Jan Kraśniewski, Bartłomiej Ostapczuk
Duration 75 min. without break
R E V I E W S
"The enchanted art of mime"...
.The production presents a magical, theatrical fairy tale about unrequited love and rivalry; a story about a “him” and a “her” – two lovers consumed by an unfulfilled desire for a different reality who summon the strangest dreams and themselves. And since most of us love fairy tales and the nostalgia for a childhood filled with fantasy, it is worthwhile to open
up one’s mind and heart to a silent, but very telling message forming this pantomime production.
This is an incredible fairy tale put on stage, woven of unbounded, unbridled imagination and writted with body motion,
facial expressions and music. This simplicity of form combined with perfection of execution, is what essentially decides if a mime’s work is successful..
The artists have fun alongside the audience and laughs never end. The whole story, told with motion, gesture, grimaces and costumes,
is very convoluted. It’s a grab bag of styles and symbols, where one can find beauty and human emotion. Those passions are rendered extremely well by the actors - Bartłomiej Ostapczuk, Aleksandra Batko, Maja Rękawek, Paweł Kulesza, Maciej Jan Kraśniewski.
The apparent simplicity of the message, combined with the perfection of execution, is what makes the production successful. The unusual fairy tale is woven out of unbound imagination and written with motion, facial expression and music, is characterised by flexible, sensual, often extreme gestures that terrify, amuse and move emotionally.
"The enchanted art of mime" Anna Czajkowska Teatr dla Wszystkich online Link do źródła 11-06-2019
Actors of Warsaw Mime Center Company proof that word "impossible" for them dos not exist!
Everything was supplied: a beautiful production performed materfully, flowers and applause, champagne and fireworks – the 19. Festival of the Art of Mime in Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw started with a bang!
„Once”, the opening production of the festival, has been part of the repertoire of the Russian Derevo Labolatorium Theatre, created by Anton Adasinsky, for years (i.e. since
1997). The production has been enjoyed by audiences worldwide and has received numerous awards as well as invitations to the most notable theatre festivals. In Warsaw, it
was shown twice – in 2005 and 2014. This year, the creator and leader of the Russian theatre, Anton Adasinsky, has decided for the first time to put up a production of the play
with actors from another theatre – and his pick was the Theatre of Warsaw Mime Center. And the pick was, indeed, excellent!
The actors from Warsaw have therefore faced an enormous challenge: they were to deal with a true legend. At the same time, they entered the roles, costumes and staging ideas of Anton Adasinsky boldly and without any undue trepidation. They told a story of two people who met or merely could have met, who were split apart to find each other again
somewhere, who dreamed about themselves and about each other... the production I watched deliberately mixed various theatre styles – elements of pantomime, modern
dance, mask and puppet theatre, clown performance
„“Once”, where audience members were continually surprised by something like a huge stuffed pig falling from the sky or a space journey of the main protagonist (it was a space journey because it was on the tail of a comet – made of paper and resembling the Star of Bethlehem!). A harlequin hopelessly in love (played by Bartłomiej Ostapczuk with a crooked nose and a
broom – he’s amazing) duels the villain (Maja Rękawek, wonderful in this role)
This is theatre of the the absurd, a comedy of errors and a lyrical love story. The actors of the Theatre of the Warsaw Mime Center have shown that nothing is impossible for them. I
think that this production is a fitting start for a grand world tournée!
Marzena Dobosz
Link do pełnej recenzji
http://teatruglodna.blogspot.com/2019/06/once-antona-adasinskyego-w-wykonaniu.html
Everything was supplied: a beautiful production performed materfully, flowers and applause, champagne and fireworks – the 19. Festival of the Art of Mime in Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw started with a bang!
„Once”, the opening production of the festival, has been part of the repertoire of the Russian Derevo Labolatorium Theatre, created by Anton Adasinsky, for years (i.e. since
1997). The production has been enjoyed by audiences worldwide and has received numerous awards as well as invitations to the most notable theatre festivals. In Warsaw, it
was shown twice – in 2005 and 2014. This year, the creator and leader of the Russian theatre, Anton Adasinsky, has decided for the first time to put up a production of the play
with actors from another theatre – and his pick was the Theatre of Warsaw Mime Center. And the pick was, indeed, excellent!
The actors from Warsaw have therefore faced an enormous challenge: they were to deal with a true legend. At the same time, they entered the roles, costumes and staging ideas of Anton Adasinsky boldly and without any undue trepidation. They told a story of two people who met or merely could have met, who were split apart to find each other again
somewhere, who dreamed about themselves and about each other... the production I watched deliberately mixed various theatre styles – elements of pantomime, modern
dance, mask and puppet theatre, clown performance
„“Once”, where audience members were continually surprised by something like a huge stuffed pig falling from the sky or a space journey of the main protagonist (it was a space journey because it was on the tail of a comet – made of paper and resembling the Star of Bethlehem!). A harlequin hopelessly in love (played by Bartłomiej Ostapczuk with a crooked nose and a
broom – he’s amazing) duels the villain (Maja Rękawek, wonderful in this role)
This is theatre of the the absurd, a comedy of errors and a lyrical love story. The actors of the Theatre of the Warsaw Mime Center have shown that nothing is impossible for them. I
think that this production is a fitting start for a grand world tournée!
Marzena Dobosz
Link do pełnej recenzji
http://teatruglodna.blogspot.com/2019/06/once-antona-adasinskyego-w-wykonaniu.html
Moving, sensitive. Real. - received enthusiastically by the audience.
Once upon the time, beyond the mountains, beyond the rivers, in the land of imagination, desires, illusion – or maybe just around the corner – SHE meets HIM. Fire and water, day and night, waking moments and dreams, heaven and hell, good and evil. It’s as if they have always lived next to each other, complementary, in an invisible relationship. They are
full of contradictions, of differing nature, with different destinies.
Donna Flora, gracefully portrayed by Ola Batko, is beautifil, flexible, willowy. She’s like an intangible desire. A bit like a marionette, a bit like a figurine of a dancer in motion, a bit like a regular girl that has just begun dreaming of love, of a better self, of a more beautiful life. The boy, played suggestively by Bartłomiej Ostapczuk, is clumsy and, it needs to be said, he’s unattractive, not pretty. He’s dark, mysterioys, crazy. An eternal wanderer, a beak-nosed clown with a rope around his neck. He’s the kind of person one does not pay attention to, someone to
ignore, to avoid. He’s hopelessly infatuated with Donna Flora. She has romantic dreams, but makes level-headed decisions. She’s attracted to gallant, glamorous, elegant man. The promise of power and success is wonderfully visualised via mime by Maja Rękawek.
Everything is not as it seems. Appearances can be deceiving. The outer shell, the corporeal is not the image of a soul. A Devil arrives, as does Amor and Death. Yes, weird things are happening here. Strange transformations occur. Enchanting spells. Diabolical meetings.
But in reality, this is a regular love story like most, a tale of human fate. It is not devoid of humour, warmth, emotion. Boldly, it steps off the stage an goes into the audience’s territory.
ONCE is a fairy tale for adults, a return to the safety of the land of respite. A place where emotions, choices, failures of the heroes are lived as if they were one’s own, but without unpleasant consequences. Everything is shrouded in sentimantal nostalgia, the poetry of
pantomime. Art provides some distance here. It’s a bit naive, a bit childlike. Full of emotions and the unspoken, of fantasy. Moving, sensitive. Real. A surrealist scenography conjured up by the professionalism of the authors, emotional lighting, suggestive choreography, costumes that underline the qualities of the characters, make-up, performative stage motion, good taging ideas. Everythign is light and natural, played gracefully by wonderful artists. The production was received enthusiastically by the audience, who were absorbed by a metaphorical tale of love, of life and of the human. It took a long time for the applause to die down.
"XIX Międzynarodowy Festiwal Sztuki Mimu Once" Ewa Bąk
okiem-widza.blogspot.com Link do źródła 21-06-2019
Once upon the time, beyond the mountains, beyond the rivers, in the land of imagination, desires, illusion – or maybe just around the corner – SHE meets HIM. Fire and water, day and night, waking moments and dreams, heaven and hell, good and evil. It’s as if they have always lived next to each other, complementary, in an invisible relationship. They are
full of contradictions, of differing nature, with different destinies.
Donna Flora, gracefully portrayed by Ola Batko, is beautifil, flexible, willowy. She’s like an intangible desire. A bit like a marionette, a bit like a figurine of a dancer in motion, a bit like a regular girl that has just begun dreaming of love, of a better self, of a more beautiful life. The boy, played suggestively by Bartłomiej Ostapczuk, is clumsy and, it needs to be said, he’s unattractive, not pretty. He’s dark, mysterioys, crazy. An eternal wanderer, a beak-nosed clown with a rope around his neck. He’s the kind of person one does not pay attention to, someone to
ignore, to avoid. He’s hopelessly infatuated with Donna Flora. She has romantic dreams, but makes level-headed decisions. She’s attracted to gallant, glamorous, elegant man. The promise of power and success is wonderfully visualised via mime by Maja Rękawek.
Everything is not as it seems. Appearances can be deceiving. The outer shell, the corporeal is not the image of a soul. A Devil arrives, as does Amor and Death. Yes, weird things are happening here. Strange transformations occur. Enchanting spells. Diabolical meetings.
But in reality, this is a regular love story like most, a tale of human fate. It is not devoid of humour, warmth, emotion. Boldly, it steps off the stage an goes into the audience’s territory.
ONCE is a fairy tale for adults, a return to the safety of the land of respite. A place where emotions, choices, failures of the heroes are lived as if they were one’s own, but without unpleasant consequences. Everything is shrouded in sentimantal nostalgia, the poetry of
pantomime. Art provides some distance here. It’s a bit naive, a bit childlike. Full of emotions and the unspoken, of fantasy. Moving, sensitive. Real. A surrealist scenography conjured up by the professionalism of the authors, emotional lighting, suggestive choreography, costumes that underline the qualities of the characters, make-up, performative stage motion, good taging ideas. Everythign is light and natural, played gracefully by wonderful artists. The production was received enthusiastically by the audience, who were absorbed by a metaphorical tale of love, of life and of the human. It took a long time for the applause to die down.
"XIX Międzynarodowy Festiwal Sztuki Mimu Once" Ewa Bąk
okiem-widza.blogspot.com Link do źródła 21-06-2019
"Once...” shows the genius of the art of mime
“Once” shows the genius of the art of mime and how this theatre genre is open to being combined with related genres from various theatre traditions. The production tells the story of a love between a woman and a man as well as amusing difficulties they face and various situations straight out of a fairy tale. It is immensely funny and it combines jokes, sadness and melancholy. It is excellently acted by the entire troupe, especially Bartłomiej Ostapczuk, who at present is the most distinguished Polish mime that is active artistically as well as in the role of a teacher.
"Zachować festiwal" Temida Stankiewicz-Podhorecka
Nasz Dziennik nr 143/22-23 czerwca 2019 22-06-2019
“Once” shows the genius of the art of mime and how this theatre genre is open to being combined with related genres from various theatre traditions. The production tells the story of a love between a woman and a man as well as amusing difficulties they face and various situations straight out of a fairy tale. It is immensely funny and it combines jokes, sadness and melancholy. It is excellently acted by the entire troupe, especially Bartłomiej Ostapczuk, who at present is the most distinguished Polish mime that is active artistically as well as in the role of a teacher.
"Zachować festiwal" Temida Stankiewicz-Podhorecka
Nasz Dziennik nr 143/22-23 czerwca 2019 22-06-2019