LIMINAL. I AM A DREAM I CANNOT DREAM

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LIMINAL. I AM A DREAM I CANNOT DREAM is the group’s case against violence towards women. While the issue constitutes one of the most severe human rights breaches in the modern-day world, it is all too often brushed aside. The production is an innocent, and yet gory fairy tale for adults. It’s a story about princesses and queens (including the evil ones), who want to break free from their tales.

The script for the production draws on passages from contemporary and popular culture. The play is meant to galvanise both men and women into action against violence, so that they counter attitudes, along with societal, cultural and religion-based prejudice that degrade women.

According to anthropologist Victor Turner, who further developed and spread the concept, ‘liminality’ is a state of limbo, a transitional period between two successive stages in life. This phase is distinguished by humility, isolation, tests, humiliation, upturned order, a hazy sense of belonging, and the experience of ‘communitas’, a spirit of community.
Cast:
Thumbelina (women trafficking) - Dorota Glac
Snow Queen (infanticide) - Marta Jalowska
Cinderella (femininity as a commodity) - Adrianna Kornecka
Sleeping Beauty (struggling with one’s spirituality) - Dominika Strojek (till 2013) / Emanuela Osowska (since 2013)
Snow White (serial murderess) - Kamila Worobiej
Script by TERAZ POLIŻ
Directed by Marta Miłoszewska (formerly Marta Ogrodzińska)
Stage and costume design consulted by Julia Skrzynecka
Poster design by Kamila Worobiej
Performance based on the writings of Elfriede Jelinek, Frederic Beigbeder, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Ivo Andrić, Haruki Murakami, Wisława Szymborska, Marta Dzido, Katarzyna Bratkowska, Anaïs Nin, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Dorota Terakowska, Aglaja Veteranyi, William Shakespeare, excerpts from Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, alongside press snippets and interviews conducted by the TERAZ POLIŻ group members.
​Duration - 1h
​PREMIERE - 30.03.2009, club Hydrozagadka, Warsaw
The production was prepared under the patronage of human rights organisation Amnesty International within the framework of an action carried out under the slogan “STOP Violence against Women”.
​photo: Kasia Chmura-Cegiełkowska | teatralna.com
2013
The 2013 Pestka Avant Garde Theatre Festival / Jelenia Góra (Poland)

2011
HARTOFFANIE TEATREM [STRENGHTENING BY THEATRE], evening no. 43 / WOMEN AND FRINGE THEATRE / Bytom (Poland)
2011 FINT Festival - Feminism in Theatre / Chisinau (Moldova)

2010
The 11th OFTeN Polish Independent Theatre Festival / Ostrów Wielkopolski (Poland)
The 6th “Demoludy” International Theatre Festival - RED OCTOBER / Olsztyn (Poland)

2009
The 17th Dionysia International Theatre Festival / Ciechanów (Poland)
The 39th FAMA International Art Campus / Świnoujście (Poland)
The 2009 Re:visions Independent Art Invasion / Warsaw (Poland)
Fundraising concert for La Strada Foundation / Warsaw (Poland)
The tenth Amnesty International Write for Rights letter-writing marathon / Warsaw (Poland)
The GRAND PRIX of the 11th OFTeN Polish Independent Theatre Festival (2010)
The TRITON AWARD at the 39th FAMA International Art Campus (2009)
The GRAND PRIX of the 17th Dionysia International Theatre Festival (2009)