As guest country, BAM! is dedicating itself this year to a nation that exerted decisive influence on the international theater avant-garde. This performance-oriented evening proves that theater in Poland has lost none of its rigor and intensity. Exploring the role of the body and the role of language from various angles, it also probes the limits of our understanding of music theater.

In a moving tour de force, Wojtek Ziemilski breaks down the boundaries between play and reality by entering into a dialogue with his own body—attempting to understand “how we can get along with each other”.

Dominika Wiak’s approach to her body is not one of alienation; she confronts it as a medium of identification and liberation that is necessary to find one's own speech in the first place. In search of her story and her voice as a woman, she returns to her body as a potential for constant movement, creation, and transformation—a shelter and a source of personal unfolding. Rafał Ryterski, who has another work on display in the festival, wrote the music for this piece.

Inner Monologue:

TEXT AND PERFORMANCE
Wojtek Ziemilski
DRAMATURGICAL COLLABORATION, RESEARCH
Jowita Mazurkiewicz
RESEARCH
Sean Palmer
SOUND
Jacek Mazurkewicz
CURATION
Tomasz Plata
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY
Prof. Dr. hab. N. med. Piotr Albrecht, Dr. Nicolas Gold
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Sodja Lotker, Lea Kukovičič, Janek Turkowski, Dorota Głażewska-Ziemilska, Paweł Ziemilski, Marcin Kosakowski, Michał Libera, Asa Horvitz, the doctors at the National Medical Institute of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration

MIT
Wojtek Ziemilski
Performance

Inner Monologue is a production of Teatr Komuna Warzawa.

Misspiece:

CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY
Dominika Wiak
DRAMATURGY
Marcin Mietus
MUSIC
Rafał Ryterski / Aleksander Wnuk
LIGHT
Klaudyna Schubert
SCULPTURE
Dominika Wiak
SCULPTURE
Jasna Iwan

WITH
Dominika Wiak Performance