Kalkwerk Narodowy Stary Teatr Opens Tonight At Gerald W. Lynch Theater As Part of Lincoln Center Festival
Kalkwerk Narodowy Stary Teatr Opens Friday, July 17, 2009 7:00 PM at Gerald W. Lynch Theater during Lincoln Center Festival
Adaptation, scenic design, and direction by Krystian Lupa
from the novel by Thomas Bernhard
Music Jacek Ostaszewski
The distinguished and highly original director Krystian Lupa, in this masterly adaptation of Thomas Bernhard's chilling 1970 novel Das Kalkwerk, brings us face to face with madness. Poland's celebrated Narodowy Stary Teatr performs Lupa's signature piece, which confirms that Bernhard "is by far the most disturbing and original literary figure to have emerged in postwar Austria" (The New York Times).
In dramatizing Bernhard's psychologically complex story of Konrad, a scientist mentally imprisoned by his obsessive work, and his crippled, captive wife, the two of them surrounded by the bleakness of an abandoned lime works, Lupa elicits astonishing acting from the ensemble.
From the discovery of the murder of Konrad's wheelchair-bound wife, the obvious victim of her husband's intense derangement, we appreciate Lupa's ingenious ability to capture the frightening essence of an obsessive mind and our unpleasant recognition of the same.
Performed in Polish with English supertitles
This performance is approximately four hours with two intermissions. Please note: There is no late seating.
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