East European Performing Arts Platform (EEPAP) supports the
development of contemporary performing arts (dance and theatre)
in 18 countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
The Ukrainian premiere of "THE CARD INDEX”
THE CARD INDEX
writtten by Tadeusz Różewicz
directing: Andrzej Szczytko
translation: Vasiliy Sagan
set design: Tatiana Savina
costumes: Alina Garbunova
lightning design: Vlodimir Miankov
music: Gennadiy Frolov
PREMIERE - March 17th, 2017
CAST
Protagonist - Valery Brylov
Mother - Agnessa Dzvonarchuk | Ludmila Platonova
Father - Yuri Jevsiukov
Unkle | Teacher - Petro Rachynskiy
Chorus of Elders - Alexander Tartyshnikov | Harry Chumachenko | Yevgen Plaksin
Secretary - Irina Rozhenko
Protagonist's Wife - Ludmila Zaharchuk
Fat Miner | Man in the Hat - Andrey Borysenko
Man with a parting | Waiter - Andrzej Borys
Energetic Woman #1 - Tetyana Petrovska
Energetic Woman #2 - Natasha Golovina
Young Girl - Darya Novikova
Young Woman - Elena Olar
Man in a baseball cap - Dmitry Cherniavsky
Fat Woman - Tamara Zubov | Irina Kobzar
Journalist - Tetiana Turk
ABOUT
The new theatrical project by Andrzej Szczytko is based on "The Card Index" by Tadeusz Różewicz. The play portrays a man, Protagonist, who doesn't want to participate in the ongoing show. The Protagonist sounds rather bored as if he doesn’t feel like talking, a bit amused but above all ill-disposed to the play and himself and amused. Różewicz's initial intention was that the Protagonist was supposed to say only three words...
The Card Index consists of two images: the internal emptiness of the Protagonist and a flood of phenomenae, people and objects that flows through his room. No other play has changed the face of European drama to the degree that The Card Index has. Since it first premiered its formal novelty has never lost perspicuity, nor has the complicated, firmly Polish subject-matter hindered the play from entering stages abroad. There is nary a season when The Card Index is not published or staged somewhere in the world.
Project financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland. Official website: mkidn.gov.pl
PRODUCTION
Etnosfera Cultural Anthropologist Association, president Maria Czarnecka.
Official website: etnosfera.org.pl
MEDIA PATRONAGE
- TVP Kultura - the first TV theme channel to be run by the Polish public broadcaster TVP, dedicated to arts and culture. Official website: tvpkultura.tvp.pl
- Polish Radio External Service - the official international broadcasting station of Poland. Official website: external.polskieradio.pl
HONORARY PATRONAGE
- Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Poland
- Consualte General of the Republic of Poland in Kharkiv
- Ukraine's Honorary Consualte in Poznań