Revue of Fire

Teatr Cinema

Poland

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An old pub, a cramped classroom or a secret storage room? Each for himself – yet all together in synchrony. In steady rhythm, unremittingly and lost to the world, a perpetuum mobile made up of figures, objects and film clippings produces surreal arrangements of desire, seduction, dashed hopes and overdue gratification. A love story of two people torn apart by war forms the backdrop. With absurd inventions of images as well as droll disguises and states of undress, interior worlds are shaped from the things that are sorely missing. Not only is the mystery of love affirmed, but also the logic of terror during wartime is contrasted with a wilful, intimate world somewhere between illusion and reality.

One of the best-known groups in Poland who also enjoy an international reputation, Teatr Cinema has been creating pieces since 1992 in which the “imagination revolts against the routine of reality”. Their poetic work takes its inspiration from the paintings of Magritte, the texts of Beckett and Dadaist art.