THE LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL’S FIRST PRODUCTION FROM POLAND
Narodowy Stary Teatr, Krakow
KALKWERK
by Thomas Bernhard
adaptation, direction and set design by Krystian Lupa
music by Jacek Ostaszewski performed in Polish with English supertitles
People who have seen Krystian Lupa’s work speak of it in hushed, awestruck tones. ‘He’s a god’ is a phrase that crops up frequently.
– Boston Globe
Krystian Lupa’s Narodowy Stary Teatr production of Kalkwerk – one of the greatest theatrical events of the 1990s.
– Gazeta Wyborcza
Lincoln Center Festival, with support from the Polish Cultural Institute, presents the Narodowy Stary Teatr from Krakow, one of the oldest Polish professional theater companies, with their U.S. premiere of Kalkwerk, by Thomas Bernhard, controversial Austrian playwright and novelist – “by far the most disturbing and original literary figure to have emerged in postwar Austria” (The New York Times) – as part of this summer’s Lincoln Center Festival. Kalkwerk is the first Polish production ever presented by this, one of the world’s most important theater festivals.
As directed by internationally renowned Polish director Krystian Lupa, this masterly adaptation of Bernhard’s chilling 1970 novel Das Kalkwerkbrings us face to face with madness. In this psychologically complex story of Konrad, a scientist mentally imprisoned by his obsessive work, and his crippled wife, whom he holds captive in an abandoned lime works, Lupa elicits astonishing acting from the ensemble of the celebrated Narodowy Stary Teatr.
TUESDAY, JULY 14 – SATURDAY, JULY 18
7:00 PM
Lincoln Center Festival
Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
899 10th Avenue
(btw. 58th & 59th Streets),
New York, NY 10019
Tickets:
from $35; online,tel.212.721.6500, Festival Box Office: Avery Fisher Hall (Broadway at 65th Street)
