Jan Klata
Jan Klata
L’Affaire Danton
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L’Affaire Danton
Text and direction, Jan Klata
Dramatic art, Sebastian Majewski
Set and costumes design, Mirek Kaczmarek
Choreography, Macko Prusak
Lighting design, Justyna Lagowska
With Kinga Preis, Anna Ilczuk, Katarzyna Straczek, Marcin Czarnik, Wieslaw Cichy, Wojciech Ziemianski, Bartosz Porczyk, Andrzej Wilk, Marian Czerski, Edwin Petrykat, Zdzislaw Kuzniar, Miroslaw Haniszewski, Rafal Kronenberger, Michal Opalinski, Michal Mrozek
Production Teatr Polski of Wroclaw
With the support of Onda and Polish Institute of Paris
Since H for Hamlet, which dealt with the Solidarnosc movement, Jan Klata has been combining repertoire theater, rock’n roll aesthetics and a documentary approach to draw a sharp criticism of contemporary Poland. He renews this confrontation with history in Transfer! and L’Affaire Danton.
The former takes up the Yalta summit in 1945, confronting the meeting of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin with events taking place in a town affected by the decisions taken, Wroclaw. While the three statesmen preside over Europe’s fate, a choir composed of survivors of these events voices some of the tragedies which ensued.
Jan Klata stages Stanislawa Przybyszewska’s play Danton, after Andrej Wajda’s famous adaptation to film. The French Revolution is presented as a burlesque cabaret, evoking B-rated movies, rock operas and bourgeois comedies. The struggle between Danton and Robespierre resembles urban gang war more than 18th century France.