CABARET KÜNSTLERSPIELE

The cultural past of the outhouse building on 3 Maja (Grundmanstrasse) street number 11 in Katowice, where now on the first floor the art scene of Teatr A Part has its place, is connected with the German history and two global war conflicts of the XXth century. In 1907 the buildning had been adapted into a silent cinema. Grand Kinematograph existed there until 1915 so until the first years of the I World War when it went bankrupt. Durning the II World War when Katowice was already annexed by the Third Reich, the building held the activity of the German kabarett - beerhouse Künstlerspiele.

In the latest spectacle - evening cabaret show we borrow this name, we bring back the spirit of the place and the time that passed (Zeitgeist) to combine the themes associeted with the convension of an old German and French artistic cabaret, characteristic features of the Teatr A Part style and the topic of war. Cabaret Künstlerspiele by Teatr A Part is, therefore, a sequence of theatre variations where the echoes of the world wars, especially the first one called the Great War and the shadows of old cabarets of Berlin, Paris, Zurich and Vienna intertwine, overlap and merge.

We lean over the bodies of the war victims, we look at ourselves through the stories and achievements of our long - dead fellow artists and without a hint of satisfaction but with a good dose of decadence we find our own selves in them.


Scenes from The Great War
PROGRAMME

01. Prologue
02. Cabaret Decadente
03. Tests on fear and death
04. Hell of trenches
05. Sent for the slaughter
06. Gallop of cripples
07. Anomalies Cabaret
08. Execution of artists
09. Cabaret Voltaire
10. Allegory of the total war
11. Landscape after battle
12. Totentanz
13. Applause probably
14. Possibly scene for encore



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concept, script, direction and set design: Marcin Herich

script co-operation: the team

acting: Natalia Kruszyna, Monika Wachowicz, Daniel Dyniszuk, Cezary Kruszyna

original music composed by Leszek Kwaśniewicz

in the spectacle the original Wehrmacht songs and parade marches were used as well as the Infernal Gallop from ,,Orpheus in the Underworld’’ by Jacques Offenbach

sound design: Marlena Niestrój

text in prologue: Monika Wachowicz (interpretation by Leszek Kwaśniewicz)

first night performance: November 2014

duration of the performance: 60 minutes

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