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textDariusz Kortko, Artur Pałyga, Marcin Pietraszewski
archival
1h 30 minutes, no intermission
Premiere date 10/04/2025
What will you do when the rope that held you suddenly breaks at an altitude of 8,300 metres? There will be a few long moments of flying alone into the void – so you have time to think about it. Loneliness is your sole companion in this journey. Or maybe it has always been your sole companion?
Fourteen highest mountains of the world, eight-thousanders. The Crown of the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Each of them is associated with legends, stories of euphoric victories, but also painful failures. Will you accept the challenge of climbing them all, knowing that every top is related to a risk of falling? How much will you sacrifice to reach the goal? Jerzy Kukuczka – one of the most important Himalayan mountaineers in the world; although he climbed them all, instead of resting at home, he decided to return to the Himalayas and once again face his first mountain, Lhotse. Did it have to at the same time be his last expedition? Did it restore the balance of the world?
“The Himalayas” is a story about the heights of human possibilities, but also about chasms that cannot be filled or crossed. About characters who are heroes for some and irresponsible dreamers for others. This is the first theatrical story about Jerzy Kukuczka (born in Katowice) and those whose lives was entangled with his. We will meet them in Robert Talarczyk’s spectacle, which is co-created by, among others, Dariusz Kortko and Marcin Pietraszewski, authors of the famous biography “Kukuczka: opowieść o najsłynniejszym polskim himalaiście”.
The producer of the premiere is Katowice Miasto Ogrodów – Instytucja Kultury im. Krystyny Bochenek.
Galeria zdjęć
Cast
- Jurek
- Dariusz Chojnacki
- Lhotse
- Grażyna Bułka
- Celina
- Agnieszka Radzikowska
- Tyrolean
- Grzegorz Przybył
- Journalist
- Barbara Lubos
- DJ
- Miuosh
- Rysiek
- Wiesław Sławik
- Wanda
- Krystyna Wiśniewska
- President
- Adam Baumann
- Mum
- Katarzyna Brzoska
- Father
- Marcin Szaforz
- Black
- Karina Grabowska
- White
- Natalia Jesionowska
- Tadek
- Marcin Gaweł
- Andrzej
- Bartłomiej Błaszczyński
- Artur
- Karol Gaj / Dawid Ściupidro
- Dobrusia
- Aleksandra Sikorska
- Wojtek
- Michał Piotrowski
- Krzysiek
- Wiesław Kupczak
- Ryszard
- Bernard Krawczyk † / Roman Michalski
- Himalayan mountaineer
- Katarzyna Sikora / Joanna Kurkowska
- Himalayan mountaineer
- Radosław Lis
Creative and production team
- director
- Robert Talarczyk
- set design, costumes, lighting design
- Katarzyna Borkowska
- choreography
- Kaya Kołodziejczyk
- music
- Miuosh
- video art
- Wojtek Doroszuk
- light design
- Maria Machowska
- light design cooperation
- Piotr Roszczenko
- sound
- Marcin Łyczkowski, Mirosław Witek
- screening design
- Marcin Müller
- stage manager
- Dagmara Habryka
- prompter
- Anna Wesołowska
- executive producer
- Małgorzata Długowska-Błach
- technical director
- Maciej Rokita
The Himalayas” directed by Robert Talarczyk, the Director of the Katowice stage, is a unique, surprising and heterogeneous spectacle, because it contains elements of dance theatre, video art, or oneiric imaging that make the show resemble a film of the time of expressionism in German cinema, and at the same time it is extremely emotional. Passion, love, fear, anxiety, devotion, delight, jealousy – emotions are boiling here, and are at their highest.
I have not seen such an unobvious, surprising and at the same time touching spectacle in Silesia for a long time. […] This proposition is very surprising to the viewer. It is brave and monumental, dark and polyphonic. But it is worth going in this style, “buying it”, receiving it with all your senses, because it works at every level and brings final satisfaction. It is coherent, makes sense, carries a clear idea that the actors communicate to us from the stage in demanding etudes, combining into one 90-minute piece.
I thank them so much for acting in this spectacle with a big heart. They gave their all and I saw that – just like me – they were heavily affected by it. Memories and the moments spent with Jurek came back to me. I am very touched. I will remember those scenes that show us together in particular. I saw us together. Again.
The emotions accompanying the Himalayan mountaineers were successfully illustrated, but without a direct reference to climbing, mountains, biography, without an intrusive documentary character. I admit, I was deeply moved when I was watching the spectacle.
”The Himalayas” is not a biographical spectacle; it is rather a visually striking attempt at answering the question of what, contrary to common sense, pushes a man towards deadly highs. There are no mountains on the stage. Aside from those that are constructed by choreographer Kaya Kołodziejczyk out of the bodies of the actors.
