at a support of The Adam Mickiewicz Institute (Warsaw)
presents
THE THIRD MEYERHOLD MEETINGS
Stary Teatr (Krakow, Poland)
ZARATHUSTRA
based upon Friedrich Nietzsche's book THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA and play by Einar Schleef NIETZSCHE.TRILOGY
Director
Krystian Lupa
Composer
Pawel Szymanski
Video
Zbigniew Bzymek
Costume designer
Piotr Skiba
Dramaturgy asssistant
Ireneusz Janiszewski
Cast:
Zarathustra I - Sebastian Pawlak
Dwarf - Zbigniew Kosowski
Tightrope-walker - Tomasz Wygoda/Tomasz Wesolowski
Johannes - Bogdan Brzyski
Mateusz - Adam Nawojczyk
Maria - Sandra Korzeniak
Bella - Małgorzata Zawadzka/Joanna Drozda
Zarathustra II - Zbigniew W. Kaleta
Eagle - Bogdan Brzyski
Snake - Adam Nawojczyk
Dwarf - Zbigniew Kosowski
The prophet of great weariness - Andrzej Hudziak
Right King - Pawel Kruszelnicki
Left King - Bolesław Brzozowski
Donkey - Tomasz Wygoda/Tomasz Wesolowski
Smuggler - Sebastian Pawlak
Diligent - Jerzy Swiech
Last Pope - Zygmunt Jozefczak
The wizard - Piotr Skiba
The murderer of the God - Jacek Romanowski
Shadow - Urszula Kiebzak
Zarathustra III-Fritz- Krzysztof Globisz
Mather - Iwona Bielska
Elzhbieta - Malgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik
Dancer - Tomasz Wygoda/Tomasz Wesolowski
He - Piotr Skiba
The habitue - Jerzy Swięch
Akolita - Pawel Kruszelnicki
Anna - Agnieszka Mandat
Woman with a box - Urszula Kiebzak
Rita - Iwona Budner
Irma - Katarzyna Gniewkowska
Maria - Sandra Korzeniak
Sacred - Małgorzata Zawadzka
World Premiere - 27th of June, 2004
Polish Premiere - 7th of May, 2005
Performance duration: 5 hours (with two intermissions)
