Krzysztof Warlikowski - Toneelgroep Amsterdam

For about three years now, Polish theatre is experiencing a renaissance. The mentor of this development is Krystian Lupa, whose theatre explores the 'condition humaine'. One of his disciples is Krystian Warlikowski, guest director with the Toneelgroep Amsterdam. Since his first directorship in 1992, he has staged many a Shakespeare production in and outside of Poland. Ivo van Hove invited him to the Holland Festival 2001 with an inspiring 'Hamlet'. A few months later, he was our guest staging Euripides' 'The Bacchantes' at deSingel. The point of departure of Warlikowski's stagecraft is not the fully detailed script, not just the bare exercise of intellectual aesthetics. In his case, the strength of a performance rests with the genius of the actors. The Australian author Andrew Bovell, still generally unknown in our part of the world, writes for theatre and film. In 'Droomsporen', he combined the two genres to describe the manipulations of time and fate. Four men and four women are desperately looking for contact with language as the only common denominator. Unintentionally, these drifting thirty-some get involved with each other and with each other's tales. They cling to short moments of hope. Two couples have affaires for the thrill's sake; a young man waits for the return of his sweetheart in vain. She set out on a journey just before they we due to get married.