Performance “Nosferatu - a diary of the plague” | Poland
Creators: Łątek Supraśl Theatre
Direction, text: Krzysztof Zemło
Music: Marcin Mickiewicz
Stage design, costumes: Ewa Agnieszka Zemło
Lighting, sound design: Zdzisław Garstka
Cast: Ewa Agnieszka Zemło, Krzysztof Zemło
Producer: Przemysław Waczyński
Premiere: September 29, 2024
Date: August 27, 2025 | Wednesday
Date: August 28, 2025 | Thursday
Date: August 29, 2025 | Friday
Time: 9 pm
Place: Trailer in the Courtyard, Art Factory in Łódź, 3 Tymienieckiego Street
Tickets: 40 PLN - early bird / 50 PLN - reduced / 70 PLN - regular
Ticket sales: kicket.com portal / online payment
Early bird tickets: on sale until July 13, 2025
Regular and reduced tickets: on sale from July 14, 2025
Duration: 55 minutes
Age Restrictions: 16+
Language: Polish
Content Warning: confined space, as the performance takes place in a trailer - a mobile theatre stage, with which the theatre company brings to the place of the performance
DESCRIPTION OF THE PERFORMANCE
The main inspiration for the show “Nosferatu - a diary of the plague”, was the film “Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror”, directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, for which Henrik Galeen wrote the screenplay. It was the first film adaptation inspired by Bram Stoker's novel “Dracula”.
In our interpretation of this theme, we wanted to highlight the phenomenon of plague. A mysterious disease affecting all Wisborg residents. From the moment Nosferatu appears in the town, many of its inhabitants have developed an ailment that makes them levitate between life and death. By day, they are drained of energy and apathetic, unable to act. At night, they come to life for a while, only to fall back into lethargy. In our performance we are not dealing with the essence of vampirism, but with contemporary societies living like zombies.
In the performance, monochrome shadow forms, taken directly from Murnau's film, using the technique of manual cinema - with the help of a hand-moved roll of foil: a “film tape” - we calmly and with a distance tell the story in our own way. We bring the characters and the storyline to life in order to consider whether we, the inhabitants of contemporary Wisborg, are alive, or are we simply still undead…?
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Krzysztof Zemło - a graduate of directing at the Theatre Academy of the Puppetry Art Department in Białystok, founder and artistic manager of theatres: Okno, Lalki i Ludzie, and currently the Łątek Supraśl Theatre. President of the Łątek Theatre Foundation and the Okno Theatre Association. Director of performances in independent and institutional theatres, pedagogue; organiser and instructor of theatre workshops for children, youth, adults, people from environments at risk of exclusion. For years he has been involved in and promoted shadow and light theatre. He is a two-time scholarship holder of the Podlaskie Voivodeship and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Director of the Municipal House of Culture - House of Creative Communities in Łomża. Awarded with the medal of Meritorious for Polish Culture.
Ewa Zemło - graduate of the School of Fine Arts in Suprasl and the Faculty of Architecture at the Białystok University of Technology. She is an author of stage designs for theatrical performances realised in off- and institutional theatres. For years, she and Krzysztof Zemło have formed a creative tandem - together they realise performances and artistic actions. She is an author of exhibitions and installations, a painter, and an organiser of art workshops. Co-founder of the Okno Theatre and the Łątek Supraśl Theatre.
Marcin Mickiewicz - composer, musician, pedagogue and arranger. In his career he has co-created more than a dozen musical projects, and currently plays in the band “Szeptucha”. He is involved in composing music for theatre performances, short films, advertising spots and computer games. His music can be heard in the NYX game, by the creators of Black Sail Games, performances by the Łątek Supraśl Theatre and the Okno Theatre. He has also collaborated with the Warsaw Theatre Academy.
