Marta Górnicka Mothers - A Song for Wartime
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No matter who wins, at the end

war is always the real winner, baby!

M. G.

 

The language of war is always the same, through space and time. The monstrosities, the rapes of women, the exhaustion of civilians, the destruction of life return within the tense international reality. Inside this cruel historical observation, Mothers – A Song for Wartime seeks all that remains from one’s voice, when violence has ruined even the possibility for speech.

Twenty-one women meet on stage. They come from Ukraine, from Belarus, and from Poland, and their ages span from 9 to 71 years old. A Chorus made up of mothers and daughters, survivors and witnesses of the havoc wrecked by war that function here as bearers of different lives and political experiences. Amongst them are refugees from Mariupol, Kyiv, Irpin, and Kharkiv, women that were persecuted, and women who opened their homes to host others. The testimonies of mothers and children, displaced from the war, become the material for a theatrical play uttering a collective accusation.

Founder of the CHORUS OF WOMEN in Warsaw and the POLITICAL VOICE INSTITUTE in Berlin, Marta Górnicka gives voice to a body of many faces, a carrier of the memory of women’s polyphonic traditions through the years. The work begins with a shchedrivka, a traditional Ukrainian well-wishing song, linked to renaissance and the revival of life. Ukrainian folk songs, children rhymes, lullabies, spells, and political phrases compose a dense soundscape, where individuals survive within the group.

These women bring onstage their lived experienced as a common breath. It is their way of resisting cruelty, with songs becoming a way to remember, to take care of each other; to survive.


Conception – Direction Marta Górnicka • Libretto Marta Górnicka & ansamble (Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles) • Music Marta Górnicka (traditional Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish music) and a quotation from Shchedryk by Mykola Leontovych • Choreography Evelin Facchini • Stage design Robert Rumas • Costumes Joanna Załęska • Musical collaboration Wojciech Frycz • Dramaturgical collaboration Olga Byrska, Maria Jasińska • Video – Documentation Michał Rumas, Justyna Orłowska • Video projections Michał Jankowski • Lights Artur Sienicki • Vocal coach Joanna Piech-Sławecka • Stage manager & assistant to the director Bazhena Shamovich • Assistant to the choreographer Maria Bijak • Movement workshop Krystyna Lama Szydłowska • Libretto translations Olesya Mamchych (Ukrainian), Maria Pushkina (Belarusian), Aleksandra Paszkowska (English), Olaf Khul (German), Cecile Bocianowski (French) • Scientific consultants Anna Ohrimchuk (Ukrainian ethnomusicology), Venera Ibragimova (Ukrainian children’s games) • In-rehearsal interpreter Marharyta Huretskaya • Surtitles Zofia Szymanowska • Producers Marta Kuźmiak, Iwa Ostrowska • International tour producers Anna Galas-Kosil, Joanna Nuckowska • Cast Katerina Aleinikova, Svitlana Berestovska, Sasha Cherkas, Palina Dabravolskaja, Katarzyna Jaźnicka, Volha Kalakoltsava, Ewa Konstanciak, Liza Kozlova, Anastasiia Kulinich, Natalia Mazur, Kamila Michalska, Hanna Mykhailova, Valeriia Obodianska, Svitlana Onischak, Yuliia Ridna, Maria Robaszkiewicz, Polina Shkliar, Aleksandra Sroka, Mariia Tabachuk, Kateryna Taran, Bohdana Zazhytska, Elena Zui-Voitekhovskaya • Production CHORUS OF WOMEN FOUNDATION (Poland), Maxim Gorki Theater (Germany) • Co-production Teatr Powszechny (Poland), Festival d’Avignon (France), Maillon Théâtre De Strasbourg Scène européenne (France), SPRING Performing Arts Festival (Netherlands), Tangente St. Pölten – Festival Für Gegenwartskultur (Austria) • In collaboration with Teatr Dramatyczny (Poland), Nowy Teatr (Poland), For Freedom Foundation, «Przystanek Świetlica», «Sunflower» Solidary Community Center • This project is co-financed by the capital city of Warsaw and the Minister of 

Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund, and is carried out in cooperation with the Allianz Foundation.


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Concept – Direction Marta Górnicka • Libretto Marta Górnicka & ensemble (Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles) • Music Marta Górnicka, traditional Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish music, a quotation from Mykola Leontovych’s Shchedryk • Choreography Evelin Facchini • Stage design Robert Rumas • Costumes Joanna Załęska • Musical collaboration Wojciech Frycz • Dramaturgical collaboration Olga Byrska, Maria Jasińska • Video – Video documentation Michał Rumas, Justyna Orłowska • Video projections Michał Jankowski • Lighting Artur Sienicki • Vocal coaching Joanna Piech-Sławecka / Agnieszka Piotrowska • Stage manager – Assistant to the director Bazhena Shamovich • Assistant to the choreographer Maria Bijak • Movement workshop Krystyna Lama Szydłowska • Ukrainian libretto translation Olesya Mamchych • Belarusian libretto translation Maria Pushkina • English libretto translation Aleksandra Paszkowska • German libretto translation Olaf Kühl • French libretto translation Cécile Bocianowski • Ukrainian ethnomusicology consultant Anna Ohrimchuk • Ukrainian children’s games consultant Venera Ibragimova • In-rehearsal interpreter Marharyta Huretskaya • Surtitles Zofia Szymanowska • Performers Katerina Aleinikova, Svitlana Berestovska, Vidana Blonska, Sasha Cherkas, Palina Dabravolskaja, Volha Kalakoltsava, Ewa Konstanciak, Liza Kozlova, Anastasiia Kulinich, Natalia Mazur, Kamila Michalska, Hanna Mykhailova, Valeriia Obodianska, Svitlana Onischak, Yuliia Ridna, Maria Robaszkiewicz, Polina Shkliar, Aleksandra Sroka, Kateryna Taran, Bohdana Zazhytska, Elena Zui-Voitekhovskaya 
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