KATIE’S TALES - A Woman’s Desire In The Whirlwind Of History

With and by Agnieszka Kazimierska (Poland). Directed by Mario Biagini (Italy).

A young woman awaits her lover. In the shade of a cherry orchard thickening with the memories and unfulfilled desires of many generations, her own desire is taken up into the maddening whirlwinds of history. 

Katie's life unfolds during savage times. Her beloved had to leave after the last catastrophe, but he promised to return. Together with a couple of foreign servants, Katie lives protected in her garden, under the shade of her cherry trees, silent witnesses of her life and of History. Every day she receives visitors, every moment could bring the return of the one who left, and Katy keeps herself ready.

Standing at the crossroads of past and future, armed with her desire, she weaves moving evocations of imbricated pasts and deeply wished-for futures.

'How can such a pure feeling emerge from an actor's body?' (Franco Acquaviva, Sipario.it). 

“Fascinating dialogue with her Foremothers and – at the same time – her kinswomen.” (Prof. Dariusz Kosiński, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

KATIE’s TALES interlaces song, poetry, evocative physicality, and striking stage imagery, to create the dream traces of one woman's encounter with love, war, ancestral memory, and a future still-to-come.

UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS: FUSION in The Cell Theatre, 700 1st St NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102, United States

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With and by Agnieszka Kazimierska (Poland). Directed by Mario Biagini (Italy). Photo by Nikita Chuntomov. Produced by Fondazione Teatro della Toscana/Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards (Italy). Artistic and technical assistance: Alejandro Tómas Rodriguez.