Wounded Deer

Script, direction, scenography: Joan Baixas
Poems translation: Leszek Engelking
Prose translation: Aneta Piechnik
Live music: Marcin Mirowski
Cast: Anna Jarota, Joanna Pasternak (guest performance), Anna Wieczorek, Agnieszka Zyskowska-Biskup, Elżbieta Żłobicka

At the Opole Puppet Theatre, Joan Baixas, a Catalan director, set designer, actor and puppeteer, directed the play Wounded Deer. This is an original, theatrical interpretation of the Poet in New York, whose author is Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), a poet, playwright - one of the most famous Spanish writers of the 20^th century in the world. His original poetry, in which Andalusian folklore is intertwined with modern avant-garde forms, is a constant inspiration for artists of various fields of art.

The Catalan theatre artist uses the poems of a Spanish bard, uses animations, art and painting forms, and collaborates with the live music of Marcin Mirowski. Lorcia's poetry on stage (in the performance we use great, newest translations by Leszek Engelking), performed by OTLiA actresses, it is a peculiar, separate, nostalgic-surreal world, a world made of words, born from animated images and sounds. A world open to otherness, sensitive to love, suffering and death. A world emotionally and visually rooted in places important to Federico - such as Granada, Havana, New York.

The Catalan director's focal point is Lorca's biography, some of its fragments. In the subsequent acts of the performance, the director allusively and contrastively links Federico's experiences expressed in his poetry with the theatrical image and action. Places marked by synthetic scenery - a factory, New York during the Great Depression, pre-war colorful Havana - are poetically intertwined with the poet's obsessions, with fears, but also with happy memories, love and humor.

Premiere: 22.09.2018
Age restrictions: over 15 years old
Running time: 1 hour (without breaks)