“Seeing”

or “City of white cards”

Theatre Studio, Warsaw, Main Stage.

Premiere: 8.03.2018

more: https://teatrstudio.pl/en/spektakl/miasto-bialych-kart

The show was prepared as a collaboration of a young director and of one of the world's greatest contemporary artists and art theoreticians, Daniel Buren.

“Seeing/ The city of white cards is a political fiction in Orwellian style. Saramago shows how democracy in a fluid and almost imperceptible way can transform into totalitarianism. The Saramago world is a model of real democracy, in which the citizen becomes a machine for fulfilling the electoral obligation - deleting the surnames on the voting card once every few years. Democracy is gradually ceasing to be a guarantor of civic freedom, control over the government or even the right to actually take free elections. Rucińska prepared a current performance, which will study the oppressiveness of power and the darkest sides of human nature, as well as a penetrating view of the social nature of man and his ability to change constantly…”

AUTHOR José Saramago

ADAPTATION AND DIRECTION Ewa Rucińska

SCENOGRAPHY Daniel Buren

SCENOGRAPHIC CONCEPT Ela Tolak

MUSIC Wojciech Kostrzewa

LIGHTNING Paulina Góral

STAGE MANAGER Maria Lejman-Kasz

PRODUCTION MANAGER Justyna Pankiewicz

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Monika Balińska