ACTA invited the Polish creator Leszek Mądzik, who will present his work for the first time in Portugal, to work on the show «Ardente», which opens this Saturday, October 1st, at 21 pm, at Teatro Lethes, in Faro.
The play about Pedro and Inês returns to the stage, on the 2nd, at 16 pm, and between October 00 and 5, at 8 pm, then on to Poland, where it will participate in the theater festivals in Lublin and Opole.
Director Leszek Mądzik is Polish, co-founder of Scena Plastyczna KUL, and creator of nineteen shows. His career also highlights the authorship of projects in theaters in Poland, France, Germany and now Portugal, the teaching of plastic arts in several schools, participation in dozens of festivals on five continents, having already been awarded in many of them.
He opted for a wordless theater a long time ago. According to Leszek Mądzik, the reason for the silence in his shows is the deep conviction that there are spheres of human reality that do not succumb to the spoken word. "When talking about these spheres we are constantly mutilating and distorting them," he says.
Its real depth and truth can, however, be processed when the proper means of artistic expression are applied. Leszek Mądzik tries to articulate this unspeakable human reality through rhythms, light and humour.
For the director, what is most hidden in the depths – the ultimate passions and existential states – never manage to fully reach consciousness and cannot be rationally understood. “Love, faith, holiness, terror, the feeling of the finite, death – that's what fills the space in these spectacles,” said Mądzik, when he was forced to write about his creativity.
In his 'cosmic' theatre, the Lublin artist brings to life and rehabilitates buried archetypes, giving viewers a renewed opportunity for a pre-rational perception of the world. In turn, the fragile oneiric universe of his shows is created with shadows and movements in an elaborate artistic way, subjugated to the rhythm marked by the music.
The spectator is “alone in the crowd”, because he is separated, by the darkness, from the other spectators and from the stage. With your imagination, you roam through other dimensions of reality apprehended by the power of Good and Evil. You strive to communicate with the world – what's on stage as well as what's beyond.
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