Persona. Marylin, video projections
"The world-famous Krystian Lupa production being shown at many differerent festivals presents the life of Marilyn Monroe, stripped of Hollywood glitz and intoxicated with sex and alcohol" - that is how critics described the show. In fact it was rather an existencial, almost mystical, interpretation of the tragic and beatiful moments of Marylin's last escape into herself. A study of how the soul and persona dependent on relations with others.
Presentations:
European Theater Awards Festival, La Comedie de Reims, the Grand Theatres of Tianjin and Beijing, World Cultures Festival in Hing Kong, ad many others.
Produced by Warsaw Dramatic Theatre
Video for theater production "Persona. Marylin" directed by Krystiana Lupa
"Andy Warhol said about that the subject and a hero in his films is personality – not a story or an individual human experiences, but a personality with all its unexpresiveness – so when it's a man as a object of work – it is better to watch him, then to tell a story about him."
The main role is played by Sandra Korzeniak, an award-winning actress. She is accompanied by, among others, Katarzyna Figura (a famous Polish actress) as a teacher and the star's mentor, Marcin Bosak in the role of one of Monroe's lovers, Piotr Skiba and Władysław Kowalski.
Persona. Marilyn is a play showing the life of Norma Jeane Baker when the spotlight and the cameras are turned off. We meet her in the apartment full of stimulants, fears and men. The director himself has called his art "photographic section", which shows ones inner life with every detail, brutally and without embellishments.
Jan Lubicz designed video work for this performance to express an intimate relation between the inner world of the heroine and the video image. An internal monologue - most important things to be said - produces a projection, a creative mode of thinking results in live video stream. "Marylin's Room", "Sandra's Monologue [After Improvisation]"- at the end of act I, as well as a spectacular, disturbing final scene "The Fire Offering" - all create a space of projection as an integrated part of psychological process: space of subjective (smaller screen) and the space of total image, a Big Dream (in jungian terms), a projection which transcends the individual (the image on the whole size of the theater scene).
Persona. Simone's Body, video projections
"...something apart, specific, and irreducible. It is quite a different thing from simple suffering…. Affliction is an uprooting from life, a more or less attenuated equivalent of death."
A fantasmatic vision of Elisabeth Vogler, a heroine form Bergman's Persona, is returning to theater after 30 years, to play a role of Simone Weil, a mystic-philosopher.
Presentations:
Golden Mask Festival, Moscow
International Theater Festival Divine Comedy
Other theater works:
- Dolce Vita - a ballet based on Federico Fellini's film work, Jan as assistant scenographer, National Opera House, Warsaw
- (A)pollonia - Jan as editor of film realisation of Krzysztof Warlikowski's theater production, Nowy Theater
- The Story - Jan as director, a theater production based on Ireneusz Iredynski, Ochota Theater
- Emil and detectives, Jan as actor, performances in Ochota Theater, Warsaw and JugendTheater, Hamburg.