photo: Maciej Zakrzewski

AMOROSO

The performance is part of the official Opole Dance Stage 2025 program.

„Endeavour therefore to withdraw thy heart from the love of visible things,
and to turn thyself to the invisible.”
~ Thomas à Kempis

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. (www.januszorlik.com)

Teatr Klucz is one of the few theatre companies in Poland formed of artists with disabilities, who have achieved a high level of professionalism despite having no formal training. The group’s earlier performance, Tranquillo, received the Main Prize of ‘The Best OFF’ Competition for the best independent theater performance.

The artists of Teatr Klucz are participants of the ‘Przylesie’ Occupational Therapy Workshop run by the Na Tak Association. The group began working in 2006 with the establishment of a theater workshop under the leadership of therapist Hanna Rynowiecka and actor Wojciech Deneka and since 2016 has been working at the Zamek Cultural Centre being its permanent resident. Since 2021 Janusz Orlik became group’s leader, as well as director and choreographer of subsequent productions. The same year a professional performer, Antek Kurjata, has also joined the team.

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PREMIERA SŁOWEŃSKA

10 GRUDNIA 2021 R.

PREMIERA POLSKA

18 GRUDNIA 2021 R.

JK OPOLE THEATRE / ODS 2025

DATE

september 28th 2025

stage

the large stage

duration

65 mins

suggested age

14+

Some scenes in the performance feature louder music and intense, dynamic lighting.

upcoming events

28.09 / sunday

19:00

25.06. / niedziela

20.00

Uwaga! W spektaklu został użyty
efekt stroboskopu.

“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.”

Piotr Dobrowolski, nietak!t

“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.”

Monika Świerkosz, Didaskalia

CREATORS

Direction, set design,
music arrangement

Janusz Orlik

Choreography

Janusz Orlik with the ensemble of Teatr Klucz

Choreographer’s assistant

Antek Kurjata

Costumes

Agnieszka Ostrowska

Light design

Arkadiusz Kuczyński,
Janusz Orlik

Therapeutic care

Hanna Rynowiecka

Interpretation into
Polish Sign Language

Karina Akseńczuk

Audio description

Marcin Głowiński

Asystent reżysera

Antek Kurjata

Kostiumy

Agnieszka Ostrowska

Reżyseria świateł

Arkadiusz Kuczyński, Janusz Orlik

Opieka terapeutyczna

Hanna Rynowiecka

CAST

Mariusz Józefiak

Jarosław Kubiak

Antek Kurjata

Daniel Laskowski

Lidia Piskorska

Piotr Roszak

Karol Solski

Magdalena Szalbierz

Arkadiusz Żmijewski

Production: ZAMEK Culture Centre

A performance delivered by the ZAMEK Culture Centre in Poznań, presented as part of the Europe Beyond Access project, thanks to a grant from the Creative Europe programme.

„Ruch, jakim operują performerki, doskonale współgra z atmosferą przedstawienia. Sposób, w jaki się poruszają, zachwyca i hipnotyzuje, tworząc klimat jak ze snów.”

Alicja Iwańska, taniecpolska.pl

„(…) potrafi rozśmieszyć, a nieraz też skłonić do refleksji. Działa jak dobrze skrojone kino gatunkowe, z rozwiązaniami z którymi teatr, moim zdaniem, mógłby częściej eksperymentować”.

Henryk Mazurkiewicz, teatralny.pl

Festiwale i nagrody

Nagroda za reżyserię dla Yulii Maslak podczas XXI Festiwalu Dramaturgii Współczesnej RZECZYWISTOŚĆ PRZEDSTAWIONA.
Spektakl zajął 2. miejsce w głosowaniu publiczności podczas XXI Festiwalu Dramaturgii Współczesnej RZECZYWISTOŚĆ PRZEDSTAWIONA.
Pokaz w ramach XXI Festiwalu Dramaturgii Współczesnej “Rzeczywistość przedstawiona” Zabrze 2022