Bartosz Dziadosz

Wojtek Faruga and Magda Fertacz's project inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, and the life and work of Oriana Fallaci. We will take a look at the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran through the lens of these old Persian tales. The play is inspired by Oriana Fallaci's visit to Tehran as a reporter to interview Ayatollah Khomeini.

Fallaci only spent a few nights in Tehran, but one was special – when her safety was at risk after she had dared to unveil her hair in the presence of the charismatic leader. Like a modern-day Scheherazade, Fallaci will fight for her right to live through the power of her story.

Guest appearance:

Krystian Łysoń as Taher – dancer, Hassan's boyfriend, opponent of every authority

We have extracted a ‘simple story’ from this monumental book. It is the story of how one day the paths of its two central protagonists, Leopold and Molly – a middle-aged couple in crisis – meet, cross and finally diverge with Stephen's – a lost student, poet and a son of their friends. In the novel, the relationship between the generations of parents and children is multidimensional. Each character carries its burden. Leopold and Molly have lost a son – the sense of this loss constantly resurfaces. Leopold is marked by his grief after the suicide death of his father, as is Stephen after the death of his mother. The traumatic death of a child or parent becomes an obsessive motif.

However, the play goes beyond the matrix of family drama. In Joyce's imagination and poetics, shifting between narrative techniques, the conflict depicted in a small, realistic space is re-scaled to a cosmic, total perspective. The parallax, shifting and thematised in the novel, locates the relationships between the protagonists in a concrete social, political reality, described in terms of class, gender, urbanism, expertise, etc.; it projects the fate of the protagonists into the human past, mythical, primordial and savage.