The director’s biography, written for four actors and a pianist, becomes a pretext to redefine the existing concepts and create the artist’s own queer fantasy system.
This musically-driven queer fantasia on masculinity and war lays bare the xenophobic heart of modern-day patriotism. With archaic military text, songs from the father of Polish opera, and absurd physical performances, Cezary Goes to War subverts gender norms and exposes the fragility of the patriarchy.
The performance, in which Nijinsky’s Afternoon of the Faun comes to life in a men’s dressing room with one of Moniuszko’s songs, aerobic exercises with Shostakovich’s battle symphony and the memory of recruitment commission become an impulse for launching performative, camp variety.
In association with the Polish Cultural Institute and Komuna//Warszawa
