AGAINST NOTHINGNESS

or

3 cm Above an Empty Head…

 

 

 

Ontological spectacle in three acts with a prologue and an epilogue tableau, inspired by life and works of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz.

 

Directed by Teresa Wełmińska and Andrzej Wełmiński

Lighting Designer: Jessica Hung Han Yun

Lighting Programmer: Robert Kurn

Production Electrician: Tom Russell

 

Ensemble:

Paula Addison, Marina Adeva, Adrian Alonso, Sophie Amaris, Georgia Belle, Charlie Brimble, Claire Campbell, Alexander Cofield, Anne Condé, Edwin Davies, Katie Eleanor Dawson, Eboni Dixon, Jack Dorning, Samuel Dunstan, Rachel Eben, Morgan Eglin, Hannah-Jayne Elliott, Thomas Fletcher, Rory Foster, Stephanie Graye, Eliza Harris, Mònica Hernández, Sean Hollands, Hasmik Hovian, Gemma Ibarra, Matthew Kaltenborn, Mindy Kaura, Damien Killen, Lyna Kornell, Manuela Malatesta, Sara Martinez, Ian Matthews, Anna-Sophia Menato, Carlos Mendoza, Annabelle Morley, Alba Navarro, Lucie Neale, Jasmine Nedwell, james Newton, Eva Ortega, Hannah-Marie Pavelkova, Alice Rotherwell, Antoinette Saint John, Julie Schulte, Bethan Screen, Harry Selvidge, Daniel Stefanson, Hekla Svavar, Paul Swainston, Laura Tamayo, Rhiannon Thornton, Robin Paley Yorke, Laura Yvas

 

The Barn - LONDYN Rose Bruford College 2014

 

 

 

“After all, there might have been nothing, not me as well – I might have never peeped out of nothingness into this world – but even stranger is the assumption that the world might have existed without me.”

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, The Only Way Out

 

1.     Prologue

2.     Figures of Drama

3.     Heteroplasticon

4.     The Precise Measuring of the Repulsion of Life

5.     Once Upon a Time in Mordowar

6.     What a Pity

7.     Cockroaches

8.     Peyote, Ether, Cocaine, Morphine…

9.     The Black Signalist and his Non-Existent Monsters

10. …and Along the Way, Like Tiny Piles of Shit, Tiny Works Nobody Needs

11. …and Mum Bought Me Pincers

12. Torture: Give Me Flame, Typhon

13. Lullaby

14. Epilogue