“Endeavour therefore to withdraw thy heart from the love of visible things, and to turn thyself to the invisible.”
Following Tranquillo and Intermezzo, two award-winning and critically acclaimed productions, Teatr Klucz returns to stage with Amoroso, a sincere and intimate show in which artists tell a tale of love, in its various forms. They do it endlessly, with devotion and without remorse. To the end. Without end.
Amoroso is for lovers and loved ones, for the happy and pleased. For the lost and the abandoned.
This thought-provoking production asks: What love really means to you? Do you love sincerely? Are you willing to love at all? What are you willing to sacrifice for love? On stage, we will see the whole spectrum of human emotional states and behaviour reflecting the different facets of love.
A poetic, oneiric, unhurried performance combining various means of stage expression, with particular emphasis on dance, stage movement and improvisation. Small parts of the spoken text will be translated into Polish Sign Language.
The choreography of Amoroso is the result of collaborative work by Teatr Klucz ensemble and its artistic supervisor, Janusz Orlik
“Today, the greatest strength of Teatr Klucz no longer seems to be the naturalness, the individualization of the characters created, or the relative spontaneity of the actors and actresses telling their own stories, but rather the discipline, composure, and quality of theatrical craftsmanship they possess. (…)
Orlik, together with the artists working at Teatr Klucz (…), tells a dream of love – a dream we all seem to share: each and every one of us following the voice of the heart, which sometimes beats with joy, but often, struck by Eros’s arrow, bleeds.”
“Amoroso is not a performance that addresses the important yet still taboo and trivialized issue of the right of people with disabilities to love and friendship, to form relationships, to parenthood, sex and intimacy. Janusz Orlik and his team are not engaged in social theatre. The director approaches the theme of love as an artist working with artists, transforming it into a language of art developed collaboratively through body, word, music, and movement. Disability here is not a difference to be concealed or emphasized; it simply seems to be part of the artistic toolset that the actors possess and work with.”
direction, set design, music arrangement: Janusz Orlik ·
choreography: Janusz Orlik with the ensemble of Teatr Klucz ·
choreographer’s assistant: Antek Kurjata ·
cast: Mariusz Józefiak, Jarosław Kubiak, Antek Kurjata, Daniel Laskowski, Lidia Piskorska, Piotr Roszak, Karol Solski, Magdalena Szalbierz, Arkadiusz Żmijewski ·
costumes: Agnieszka Ostrowska ·
light design: Arkadiusz Kuczyński, Janusz Orlik ·
therapeutic care: Hanna Rynowiecka ·
interpretation into Polish Sign Language: Karina Akseńczuk ·
audio description: Marcin Głowiński ·
production: Zamek Culture Centre
A performance delivered by the Zamek Culture Centre in Poznań as part of the Europe Beyond Access project, thanks to a grant from the Creative Europe programme.