Lithuanian National Drama Theatre / Joanna Bednarczyk / Łukasz Twarkowski

Łukasz Twarkowski, Poland's hottest theater maker, presents Quanta, the first part of his trilogy about science. Against the backdrop of two world wars, he shows how quantum physics revolutionized our perception of reality. Twarkowski focuses on the human stories of scientists like Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Einstein, and Bohr, connecting their conflicts to our contemporary search for truth.

Quanta takes the audience back to 1938, to a remote hotel in the Swiss Alps. Among the guests is Werner Heisenberg, discoverer of the uncertainty principle. Space and time begin to distort, as memories and biographies intertwine. The world seems to lose its framework, and the audience is drawn into a mosaic of interconnected stories and events. 'Life consists of quanta of events that shape changing human lives,' suggest Twarkowski and his dramaturg Joanna Bednarczyk.

Twarkowski's visual and narrative talent is further amplified by collaborations with set designer Fabien Leden, costume designer Svenja Gassen, choreographer Paweł Sakowicz, composer Lubomir Grzelak, and video artist Jakub Lech. The result is a spectacular and immersive theatrical experience where the boundaries between reality and imagination blur. Prepare for an intriguing journey through science, philosophy, and the human drive for understanding, where nothing is as it seems.

Technical trigger: This performance contains loud music (earplugs available) and there is smoking on stage.