Director's Notes:
“Dark everywhere, Gloom everywhere
What’s in the air, what’s in the air?”
This is the eternal question that opens, closes, and is woven through Adam Mickiewicz’s Part II of Forefathers: What’s in the air? What’s in the air? What is in the air in Mickiewicz’s poem is a series of spirits. To the audience they reveal the human wisdom that in death we cannot undo what has been done in life, nor can we forever mask who we truly are.
In Poland, Mickiewicz’s name is lauded like Shakespeare’s in England or Goethe’s in Germany. But more than filling a great role as a national bard, he is also a praised national icon. In this world of endless material bliss and continuing technological advancement many people search for spiritual fulfillment. Here, Mickiewicz’s poetry not only delivers a spiritual inspiration, it also encourages us to slow down, to breathe in creative energy.
- Hanna Bondarewska
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Flashpoint, Mead Theatre Lab
916 G St, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001