Who:
Studium Teatralne
What:
The King of Hearts is Off Again
PERFORMED IN POLISH WITH ENGLISH SUPERTITLES
Where:
NOHspace,
2840 Mariposa Street,
San Francisco
When:
Wednesday – Friday October 2-4, 2013 8:00pm (SF)
Tickets:
general admission $20 advance, $25 door, $18 FT students/seniors
Box Office &
Information: www.sfiaf.org
or 415-399-9554
August 9, 2013, San Francisco: The San Francisco International Arts
Festival and KulturePlus Productions present the Bay Area debut of Studium Teatralne from Warsaw with
the stage adaptation of Hannah Krall’s prize winning novel Chasing the King of
Hearts (recently published in English by Peirene Press of London).
King
of Hearts is based on the true
story of the life of Izolda Regenberg a young Jewish woman trapped in the Warsaw ghetto with her
husband and their families during the Second World War (the historical Izolda
Regenberg was very close to Krall to whom she told her life story. Izolda died
in Israel
in 2009).
King of Hearts tells how Izolda
escapes from the ghetto and lives disguised as an Aryan Polish woman named
Maria Pawlicka. Her all consuming obsession is to save her husband and is the
impetus for the play. She returns to the ghetto to try and free her parents and
her husband. But he is deported to the death camps. The action follows Izolda’s
efforts to free him by any means. The title “The King of Hearts is off Again”
is a tarot-card-like prediction of the journey of the husband and the wife that
follows him.
Studium Teatralne is an ensemble theatre in
the tradition of Jerzy Grotowski. The play is directed by the company’s
artistic director Piotr Borowski—himself a longtime student of Grotowski and
the four actors employ Grotowski method acting techniques to collectively play
22 different characters on a stage with a minimalist set..
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