His aunt he referred to as mountain and a ban

After the epic River in eleven hours of Wajdi Mouawad at the beginning of Festival ("Les Echos" of 13 July), the director Krzysztof Warlikowski, almost modest, announced only four hours thirty show! A mini-marathon still. But what fury on the plateau of the Court of honour of the Palace of the popes, swept by a strong wind which will cease to the latest minutes of the creation - as defeated in turn by the sheer scale of the Polish.

On paper, "(A) pollonia" is a literary Monster stir ancient texts and other more current. Thus to Euripides ("Alceste", "Iphigenia at Aulis" or "Furious Heracles") or Aeschylus ("the Oresteia") respond "Apollonia" Hanna Krall or borrowing to Jonathan Littell and JM Coetzee. River of words, sometimes finely woven, sets the tone of a project by the sacrifice and guilt. (A) pollonia"is rarely comfortable for the Viewer, but Krzysztof Warlikowski also takes a distance with his subjects. Delusional scenes of biting irony thus punctuate the course: it will be seen among other Apollo cleaning vacuum cleaner in hand, calling his father Zeus. An almost divine light illuminates it suddenly. The theatrical device of Malgorzata Szczesniak serves this whirlwind of images: giant glass casing, long seat, podium for live concert of Renate Jett. Only steady projections seriously disrupts our vision. Filmed actors such as what or recorded catches never leave our eye at rest. Yet a close-up of the face of Iphigenia, Magdalena perfect Poplawska voltage, enlightens the understanding of the tragedy that frame.

Three sacrifices

Modernity to the piece of Krzysztof Warlikowski passes by Oreste talking on Skype: not a free effect more, but indeed distanced the anchor in a present. The title even of "(A) pollonia" refers to the figure of Apollonia Machczynska, real character who sheltered Jews from the ghetto of Kock: denounced, she takes refuge with his own children with his father; the Germans will give him the opportunity to blame him and thus save Apollonia. He will refuse. It will be made "just among the nations", released in 1997 title. ECHO, Krzysztof Warlikowski place figure of Alceste, another woman who gives his life for her husband that the gods have condemned. Her parents had refused them also to sacrifice. Last story, that of Iphigenia. "The idea of the show, it is therefore the three sacrifices of three women." I have three stories instead of one because I no longer have the age to dwell on a single case. I tends towards the universal... "Warlikowski says.

The second part articulated around Elisabeth Costello, character devised by writer JM Costzee, is less: not by his words, but by its form - an actress at the desk who declaims a pseudo-conférence. But the most "(A) pollonia" we carry: the Greek tragedy of the Holocaust, the man of a committed theatre gives his intimate vision. And the troupe of Teatr Nowy demonstrates again his Excellency. The opening scene, where two performers manipulate dolls, is already etched in our memories is another text, "The post office" and his Amal - imagined by Rabindranath Tagore hero: a child suffering from an incurable disease who dreams of travel. His aunt he referred to as mountain "and a ban". It will not go away. A few days after having mounted this tale, orphans of the Warsaw ghetto and guardian, Janusz Korczak, were sent to the camps of Treblinka. (A) pollonia"is, there the dedicated.