Jan Klata

Jan Klata

Transfer !

Archive 2009
Theatre
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Transfer !
Text and direction, Jan Klata
Dramatic art, Dunja Funke, Sebastian Majewski
Set design, Mirek Kaczmarek
screenings, Robert Balinski
Lighting design, Jan Slawkowski

With Przemyslaw Bluszcz, Wieslaw Cichy, Zdzislaw Kuzniar, Wojciech Ziemianski, Ilse Bode, Angela Hubrich, Karolina Kozak, Hanne-Lore Pretzsch, Jan Charewicz, Zbigniew Górski, Dietrich Garbrecht, Matthias Göritz, Jan Kruczkowski, Zygmunt Sobolewski, Andrzej Ursyn Szantyr
 


Production Wroclawski Teatr Wspólczesny / Corealisation Maison des Arts Créteil ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of Onda  and Institut Polonais de 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.