Katie’s Tales is the story of a woman and her lover who, after a terrible event, left her with the promise to come back, one day. It's the story of a garden, with an orchard of cherry trees. 

Katie, together with a couple of foreign servants, lives protected in her garden, under the shade of her cherry trees, silent witnesses of her life and of History. Every day Katie receives visitors, every moment could bring the return of the one who left, and Katie keeps herself ready. With her stories and her silences, Katie tells us of desire, and of waiting, and of all that is never unsaid. She who waits is on a journey herself, on the road of her life sculpted in vivid frames, under the shade of the cherry trees thick with memories – a woman standing in front of History, face to her own lights and her own shadows, at the crossroad of past and future. The desire that Katie embodies invites us to question ourselves about where we belong, to ask ourselves questions about the role of our consciousness, in the deafening flow of events and in the confused whirlwind of desires. 

“Katie's Tales is a complex and multi-layered meeting with Katie – a girl whose life’s experiences and fate are encapsulated in the songs. But Katie (in Polish: Kasia) is also the name of a crowd. It is traditionally used in Polish folk songs, poetry and tales, as a name of a female hero. Therefore, the encounter with Katie is a meeting with thousands of women whose experiences were excluded from and silenced by the heroic histories written and retold

by men. Meeting them through and in the song means giving them back their voices, allowing us to hear them.” 

Prof. Dariusz Kosiński, Jagiellonian University, Kraków 

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With Agnieszka Kazimierska (Poland) 

Directed by Mario Biagini (Italy) 

With traditional Polish songs 

Duration: 55’ 

Performance is in English 

Production: Fondazione Teatro della Toscana / Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and ThomasRichards

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