"Katie's Tales" will be performed at United Solo Festival on Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 7:00pm - and the address is Theatre Row 410 West 42nd Street, New York City. The event is supported by the Polish Cultural Institute in New York.
Reviewing the piece, Prof. Dariusz Kosiński of Poland's Jagiellonian University in Kraków, said: “Katie’s Tales is a complex and multi-layered meeting with a girl whose life’s experiences and fate are encapsulated in the songs… [the name Katie] is traditionally used in Polish folk songs, poetry and tales, as a name of a female hero. Therefore, the encounter with Katie is a meeting with thousands of women whose experiences were excluded from and silenced by the heroic histories written and retold by men… [Agnieszka] transforms her solo performance into a fascinating dialogue with her Foremothers and - at the same time - her kinswomen”.
United Solo is a theatre company based in New York City, dedicated to the genre of one-person performance. Thir United Solo Festival is the world's largest solo theatre festival. In its course, through the exploration of existential themes, solo artists reflect upon political, economic, religious, and social experiences. Over more than 10 years, it has brought hundreds of diverse solo productions to New York stages from around the world - and it is already considered one of the world’s most important theatre events.
Writer and performer of "Katie's Tales", Agnieszka Kazimierska, is an independent Polish actress working internationally on a variety of projects. Inspired by post-Jungian and depth psychology, her works often explore historical, social, psychological-and-beyond phenomena from a personal angle. Between 2007 and 2021 she worked as a performer, theatre researcher, and teacher at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, an international theatre research centre based in Italy and established by the renown Polish theatre maker Jerzy Grotowski.
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Source: Polish Institute in New York