Programme 2023

Turkowski & Nowacka

JaWa

Programma soort: Main programme
Genre: Theatre
Herkomst: Szczecin, Poland
Extra info: Dutch premiere

After several years of working with the local community in their home city of Szczecin, festival favourites Turkowski & Nowacka return with a story about the complexity of help.

Entrance

€ 12,-

Duration

70 minutes

Language

English

Location

Lutherse Kerk

Accessibility

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Redemption but at what price?

JaWa is a quite simple story of a social enterprise called JaWa, established in September 2021 next to the place where the two artists Turkowski & Nowacka live and work. The story will be told from their perspective, but the two core workers of JaWa were Jan and Waldemar (and the name of the enterprise comes directly from their first names), who found this job after several hard chapters in their lives. It’s a documentation of 18 months working together, especially two challenging „business trips“ to Warsaw, after an invitation to be part of the theatre season „Tough Love“ at Komuna Warszawa. „It becomes a moving story about dignity, freedom, wealth and poverty, friendship and addiction.

The creators of the show combine documentary pictures with an ironic narrative and moments where they completely give up irony like in the scene with a difficult personal confession, the emotionally heaviest one in this strong, multidimensional performance.“ (Przemek Gulda)

With after-talk on August 24th at 6PM.

This performance falls under the programme theme Under Pressure. When you visit 3 or more performances from one theme, you receive a 10% discount on your tickets. Read more here.

A performance like JaWa redefines theatre, it becomes a testimony of something that is definitely bigger than an evening at a theatre. (...) This project is a story about humanity in all its complexity and ambiguity.

Author: Anna Smolar Occupation: Dialog Magazine

Friday 18 August

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15:00 18:00

Saturday 19 August

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15:00 18:00

Sunday 20 August

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15:00 18:00

Monday 21 August

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15:00 18:00

Wednesday 23 August

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15:00 18:00

Thursday 24 August

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15:00 18:00

Friday 25 August

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15:00 18:00

About the artist

Janek Turkowski is a much-loved guest on Noorderzon, with performances such as Margarete (2012) and Smalfilm (2013). Since 2013 he works together with Iwona Nowacka, and they continue as a duo Turkowski & Nowacka. They are known for their detailed and multi-layered work, always with slice-of-life film recordings at the heart of the work.

Credits

Concept, realization and performance | Turkowski and Nowacka
On screen | Jan Rozpędzik, Waldemar Wieczorek, Artur Czechowicz, Alina Gałązka, Olga Kozińska, Grzegorz Laszuk, Dorota Kwinta, Dariusz Mikuła, Szymon Olbrychowski
Support | Stowarzyszenie Teatr Kana, Przedsiebiorstwo Społeczne JaWa
Thanks to | Alina Galazka, Grzegorz Laszuk, Szymon Olbrychowski
Scenography | Piotr Szczygielski
Costumes | Iwona Nowacka
Warsaw production | Olga Kozińska / Komuna Warszawa
Curator of “Tough Love” season | Anna Smolar
International management | Dorota Kwinta

Video translated by Sean Gasper Bye

Residency programme Komuna Warszawa co-financed by the City of Warsaw within the Culture Hub project, Stowarzyszenie Teatr Kana Szczecin