Cast: Rafał Gąsowski, Edyta Łukaszewicz-Lisowska

Description

The history about saint George, described in "Gesta Romanorum", is the Christian version of "Oedipus the King". A boy, the child of an incestuous relationship between brother and sister, abandoned, raised in a monastery, as an adult unconscientiously got married his mother and had children with her. Having known the tragic truth, George decided to spent rest of his life on an uninhibited island. After seventeen years of a hard penance he was elected to become a pope. The remorse and the repentance proved to be stronger than his sins.

In the twentieth century the figure of saint George returned in the Thomas Mann's novels. Firstly in "Doctor Faustus", where the story about the holy knight was a libretto which impressive and sublime music was created to by a genius composer - Adrian Leverkhun. Then, in his last work Mann once again described the life of saint George. "The Holy Sinner" was a tale about paradoxes of human existence, the boundless power of love, the mystery of fate and faith in redemption through the suffering.

By joining together all these interpretations of the classical myth, Tomaszuk poses spectators a question about human sexuality. In "Saint Oedipus" the body is a trap, a sign of fate, a power totally controlling a man, but the power which is cursed. The playwright asks after Adrian Leverkhun: "How to be free. How to destroy a pupa to become a butterfly?". Some kind of a psychedelic game between two actors - man and women, brother and sister, complemented by the simple but at the same time strikingly beautiful set and fascinating music make the spectacle amusing and absolutely unforgettable.

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