On the second weekend of February, we invite you to immerse yourself in the creations of Krystian Lupa. On 8 and 9 February we invite you to see the most striking premiere of the 60th season of Jaunimo teatras – Krystian Lupa’s “The Magic Mountain”, based on the novel by Thomas Mann. On 9 February the performance will go with translation into English.
With the purchase of a ticket for the February 8 or 9 performances of “The Magic Mountain” spectators will have the opportunity to watch Krystian Lupa’s film “The Hideout” for free. The screening will take place at the Main Hall of Jaunimo teatras on 7 February at 19:00. The film is in Polish, but with translation into English and Lithuanian. A free movie ticket will be made available on bilietai.lt platform by selecting the seat in the hall and entering the barcode of the performance ticket into the discount coupon box.
Krystian Lupa’s film The Hideout contains scenes from his performance based on the play “The Trial” by Franz Kafka, staged at the Warsaw Nowy Teatr (premiere 2017-11-15). The play was released when the political climate in Poland was heated to the extreme due to the unprecedented judicial reform carried out by the ruling Law and Justice party. Nowy Teatr and TR Warszawa, led by two of Lupa’s students, directors Krzysztof Warlikowski and Grzegorz Jarzyna, joined forces to produce The Trial. The play was created as a theatrical community’s response to the political processes in the country.
“How to live in a country where there is all-pervading emptiness and shame?” – this is the fundamental question asked in “The Trial” by Lupa. How to live in a reality that no protests can change? How to remain human and not be destroyed; how to keep your sanity? By raising such questions, Lupa, together with like-minded actors, sought to help Polish society fight against the “all-pervading emptiness and shame”, to dare to open the locked doors…
The film “The Hideout” is built around the second act of the play, based on the actors’ improvisations. Taken to the court, F. Kafka finds himself imprisoned in a dungeon reminiscent of a ward in a psychiatric hospital. Among the prisoners are Franz Kafka himself, his fiancée Felicia Bauer (the breakup with her inspired Kafka to write “The Trial”), their mutual friend Greta Bloch, and the writer’s best friend and biographer Max Brod. Gradually, their interaction turns into a performance, in which not the characters, but the actors themselves open up in front of the audience. For them, the theater becomes an illusory hideout.