IF WORDS ARE BREATH AND BREATH IS LIFE

What happens to a word when it is spoken? It acquires rhythm, emotion and life. This year's performance by the participants of the XIII LOGOS FEST Recitation Tournament will be an attempt to revive William Shakespeare's stanzas.

Each of the performers will present one Shakespeare text and one work by the author who translated his works into Polish. It is a meeting of the original with the voices of its translators and, above all, with the individual sensitivity of the young interpreters.

However, participants will not perform in the traditional format of competitive presentations. Their interpretations will become elements of a common stage story, in which the word, the voice and the presence of the other person will create a space for dialogue.

We invite you to a show in which Shakespeare's literature will come to life thanks to those who today dare to give it their own voice.

Production: Teatr Mały w Tychy

Directed by: Paweł Drzewiecki

Julia Zemka

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

fragment, act III, scene 2

Antoni Libera, Madame

excerpts from the chapter The whole world is a scene

Bożena Strażecka

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 138

Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, When a Man Gets Older

Agnieszka Sieczkowska

William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

fragment, act II, scene 5

Roman Brandstaetter, National Nights

Anna Kochara

William Shakespeare, Macbeth

fragment, act I, scene 5

Stanisław Barańczak, She cried at night, but it was not her crying that woke him up

Jan Abramovich

William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice

fragment, act I, scene 1

Stanisław Barańczak, the Lord did not stand here

Simon Pogorel

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 140

Stanisław Barańczak, Song from Under the Floor

Lukasz Leopard

Stanisław Barańczak, Dear Advice Corner

Julia Troc

William Shakespeare, Much Noise and Nothing

Czesław Miłosz, Love

Katarzyna Wąs

fragment, act III, scene 5

Marian Herman, Love Is Not Worth It

Rozalia Bogdan

William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Mistakes

Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Virgins of the Wolf

Karol Moszczuk

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

excerpts, Act IV, Scene 4 and Act III, Scene 1

Roman Brandstaette