Dead Line

Biography

Studium Teatralne, photo Studium Teatralne Archive

‘Strong impression’ is the phrase that probably best describes the feeling one has after reading Michel Houellebecq’s The Possibility of an Island. Consumption, the battle of the sexes, chasing monetary gain, unrequited love, inner emptiness, cruel old age and the vision of eternal life in the world of eternally young people of the future which offers no place for true relationships. Love is gone. Sex is gone too. Their life has only one purpose: each new incarnation helps pave the way for the coming of the so-called Future Ones.

So, what is love?
What is happiness?
What is the true cause of human suffering?
These questions are important because it is us who pave the way for the coming of Future Generations, drawing on the legacy we have inherited from our predecessors.
How aware are we of this?
What legacy do we want to leave behind?

Studium Teatralne
Director ― Piotr Borowski
Text ― Studium Teatralne (inspired by Michel Houellebecq’s The Possibility of an Island)
Performers ― Danny Kearns, Agnė Muralytė
Production ― Gianna Benvenuto
Premiere ― 9 November 2016

Danny Kearns studied on the BA Physical Theatre course at East 15 Acting School, England (2008–2011). The study included a number of theatre techniques such as: contact improvisation, corporeal mime and various forms of mask (from neutral to clown), Meyerhold’s biomechanics and circus. He also developed his skills in the Brazilian art form of capoeira, martial arts, acrobatics, singing and playing musical instruments. In his third year of studies he performed with Frantic Assembly in The Believers (2010). After studies he co-founded with fellow graduates the theatre group Fools Play Collective, performing GoSolo (2011) and Our Solider (2012) in Oxfordshire, Stockholm, London and Edinburgh. He produced, wrote and performed in a series of short films including Chasing Your Shadow (2011) and Our Solider (2012), which screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival and on Eurochannel. He took part in a few workshops with Anna-Helena McLean and her Moon Fool company, and later worked on an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest called Storm, and co-led a workshop in Malta at the Salesian Theatre. In 2013, he took part in a workshop at Brzezinka led by Dawid Żakowski and Regula contra Regulam. After joining Studium Theatre in 2013, he performed in Chasing the King of Hearts (2014), Whispers of the Earth (2014) and Party: Take (a)part (2015) in Warsaw, Bydgoszcz, Rzeszów and New York and co-led workshops in Warsaw, Bydgoszcz and Goleniów.

Agnė Muralytė took part in the theatre project The Art of Conflict (2009), which was part of the programme Youth in Action in Kraków. At the same time she collaborated with Nie Teraz Theatre in Tarnów. In 2010, she was accepted into the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in Vilnius. A year later she moved to a theatre school in Klaipeda, Lithuania, where in 2015 she graduated in acting. From 2012 to 2015, Agnė Muralytė performed with a youth theatre in Klaipeda. In 2015, she took part in a summer theatre school in Russia, which concluded with a street performance in Moscow. She has been at theatre festivals such as Wioska Teatralna in Węgajty (Poland), Odin Week Festival (Denmark) and an Arts and Dervishes workshop led by Pierre Nadaud and Zya Azizi. She joined Studium Theatre in December 2015.