THE LONGEST SHIPWRECK IN THE WORLD, OR MINING DISASTER IN COPIAPÓ, IN THE ATACAMA DESERT, 830 KM NORTH OF SANTIAGO, THE CAPITAL OF CHILE

The show contains scenes of nudity, uses smoke and loud music. Performance with subtitles in Polish and English. After the evening show there will be a meeting with the creators.

“The longest shipwreck in the world, or mining disaster in Copiapó, in the Atacama Desert, 830 km from Santiago, the capital of Chile. Structures” draws inspiration from the mining disaster in San José, Chile, in 2010, when 33 men spent 69 days trapped underground. The show does not recreate a media story, but transforms this extreme experience into a space of reflection on human endurance, masculinity and the fragile bonds that arise in the face of crisis. The stage becomes a laboratory of bodies — a collective organism that negotiates closeness, touch, and survival, revealing unexpected forms of care and intimacy. Wach shifts the narrative from language to movement, choreography and the raw presence of the performers, inviting viewers to experience the tension between isolation and community, despair and resilience.

“The Longest Rift in the World...” is a poignant story — practically without words, only with subtitles displayed in the background — about a borderline experience; it is a subtle choreography of bodies, most likely waiting to die, because, although in the end everyone managed to be saved, at that moment none of them could have suspected that this story would have a happy ending.

Victoria Tabak, culture.pl

Telling this story from the perspective of the trapped miners automatically makes us wonder — what those long days spent underground looked like and what happened or could have happened there in a purely hypothetical layer. And what is important, Wach moves as far as possible from the strictly dramatic theater in order to focus, using a minimum of words, precisely on the power of movement, touch, light and darkness. A lot of hard work is also done by the actors, controlling their bodies with great discipline.

“The Longest Shychta...” stands with refined choreography and deliciously selected music by Michał Smajdor — these two elements combined together in dynamic collective scenes forced me to collect my jaw from the floor several times.

Kamil Pycia, theater-kicia.com