Time for our last review of a theatre performance on this journey.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" - even in its original version, unchanged by various interpreters, it arouses emotions.
Love, especially the difficult kind, always arouses emotions, even when it does not concern us personally.
And what happens when Jan Klata takes on this Shakespeare drama? The emotions must be even stronger then. Because the subject of the play and the tragic events (as in Shakespeare) or the staging performed by a great theatre individual and controversial figure cannot have any influence on them.
Jacek Wakar writes:
"There is no question of a nice comedy about love with elves dancing happily and faith in the good power of magic. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Poznań's Teatr Nowy is an uncompromising performance, another gamble by Jan Klata for everything. Instead of carefree fun, we enter a sticky nightmare, violence is born out of nothing, and men deeply hate women. Laughter? In the phenomenally played performance by the Nowy team, it resounds hysterically, to help this world endure. (…)”
Piotr Dobrowolski:
“A Midsummer Night's Dream by Jan Klata appears as a chauvinistic nightmare - a manifestation of the director's omnipotence over actresses, actors and the audience. (…))
Magdalena Rewerenda:
“Directed by Jan Klata at the Nowy Theatre in Poznań, “A Midsummer Night's Dream” is a provocation calibrated for confrontation aimed at the theatre community. (…)
It would seem that Klata refers to the tradition of reading William Shakespeare's comedies against the grain, contrary to the genre's assumptions, in order - like himself, Maja Kleczewska and Krzysztof Warlikowski years ago - to expose the tragedy embedded in their deeper layer and wrapped in comic convention. (…)”
Iwona, Patrycja, Jacek and Adek:
Without going deeper into the interpretations of the director’s intentions, we all agreed that a moving performance gave every viewer a chance to assess what is happening on stage, and thus in life…
The value of the performance is primarily the excellent acting of the entire cast, which allowed us to focus on their excellent craftsmanship and escape from observing the dark corners of the human soul…
