Photo: Edgar de Poray
Iwan Wyrypajew
TOP SECRET RESEARCH. NEW CONSTUCTIVE ETHICS
“Top Secret Research” is everything we hide from the world – dreams, worries, incorrect beliefs, and innermost thoughts. It’s a place that not even loved ones have access to. ‘Research’, on the other hand, is associated with some kind of scientific process.
The play “Top Secret Research. New Constructive Ethics” by one of the most acclaimed contemporary playwrights – Iwan Wyrypajew, is an extremely intelligent, psychological game, which can draw one in like a criminal puzzle. Its characters try to answer fundamental questions: What is a man capable of? Is he a monogamous being? What are the chances for survival of the human species? However, the fate of the world is only a pretext to show our complicated nature and our confusion in the chaotic reality of the 21st century.
“WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FREEDOM, WE MOST OFTEN THINK LIBERALLY - THAT FREEDOM IS THE RIGHT TO THINK AND SPEAK THE WAY YOU FEEL. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THIS IS ONLY ONE WAY TO FREEDOM. FREEDOM IS INDEPENDENCE. IF YOU ARE ADDICTED TO SOMETHING, YOU ARE NOT FREE FROM IT. FREEDOM CAN ONLY BE HAD BY ONE WHO IS ABSOLUTELY INDEPENDENT OF ANYTHING.”
Iwan Wyrypajew
Premiere
10th december 2021
Scene
The Large Stage
Duration
135 MINS (with interval)
Suggested age
+14
upcoming events
27.11 / friday
7.00 pm
28.11 / saturday
7.00 pm
“The effect of the clash of different perspectives is surprising: in the huge space of the Opole theatre, asymmetrical dialogues resound for over two hours, from which the audience does not lose a word. (…) During the performance the audience’s concentration does not weaken even for a moment, and after the end of the performance the signalled meanings have a chance to resonate in the audience’s consciousness for a long time to come”.
Piotr Dobrowolski, Teatr
“It’s been a long time since an evening at the theatre gave me such intellectual pleasure. At the same time, Top Secret Research is full of vivid emotion and is not lacking in criminal almost intrigue. I wish there was more theatre like this…”.
Henryk Mazurkiewicz, teatralny.pl
“Top Secret Research is a complete performance, and I completely did not expect that a format consisting of scholarly interviews, often made up of long monologues, could engage the audience in such a way. Vyrypayev’s text is definitely a solid foundation here, and the creators have managed to transfer it to the Opole stage.”
Micha Kultury
„(…) 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
„(…) 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
AWARDS AND FESTIVALS
„The Best 2019/2020” ranking of „Theatre” monthly magazine
- Distinction in the category Best New Foreign Language Play
- Distinction for Katarzyna Herman in the category Best Actress
- Distinction for Janusz Orlik in the category Best Choreography
Festival – 62nd Kalisz Theatre Meetings (2022)
Festival – 42nd Warsaw Theatre Meetings (2022)
Festival – 27th International Theatre Confrontations Festival / Lublin (2022)
Festival – 27th International Theatre Festival “Kontakt” (2023)
- Acting Distinction for Katarzyna Herman
creators
Playwright
Iwan Wyrypajew
Direction and Music Arrangement
Norbert Rakowski
Choreography and Music Arrangement
Janusz Orlik
Set Design
Maria Jankowska
Costume Design
Krystian Szymczak
Video
Wojciech Kapela
Lighting Design
Bogumił Palewicz
Costume Design
Krystian Szymczak
Lighting Design
Bogumił Palewicz
Scenografia
Maria Jankowska
Script Translation
Michał Rogalski
Lighting Designer’s Assistant
Mikołaj Kałużny
Stage Coordinator
Urszula Kraska
Reżyseria
Jędrzej Wielecki
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Jędrzej Wielecki
Reżyseria
Jędrzej Wielecki
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Jędrzej Wielecki
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Jędrzej Wielecki
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Jędrzej Wielecki
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Jędrzej Wielecki
Reżyseria
Jędrzej Wielecki
cast
Monika Borowska
Katarzyna Herman (guest)
male voice
Karol Kossakowski (guest) / Bartosz Dziedzic
Rachel Donelan
Karolina Kuklińska
female voice
Joanna Osyda
Morgan Smith
Bartosz Woźny
with
Kostiantyn Terentiev
Aleksander Gocalski-Rybarz
Marek Kosiński
Jadwiga Sokołowska
Maja Lewicka
Elżbieta Gajda
Weronika Żurek
Michał Brzeziński
Paulina Rutowicz
Youssef Moharram
Zofia Szczecina
Piotr Kajdrys
Ewa Wodecka
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