ATLAS Stage Production Canada announces:
As a part of our educational and promotional program titled “Terminal-Europe” we have initialized the Study Visit in Poland program. The program is arranged by the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Toronto and Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw.

The Program will take place from 23 May 2011 to 30 May 2011.

Participants:
Paul Lampert – Associate Professor (Acting, Directing) Dep. of Theatre, York
University; Artistic co-director of Toronto’s Theatre Panik www.theatrepanik.ca

Miroslaw Polatynski – (Actor, Director) Artistic Director, CEO & Producer at the ATLAS Stage Productions Canada www.atlasstage.com

The goal of the Program:
- To study the administrative and artistic structure of Polish Theatres.
- To analyze possibilities of artistic and educational cooperation as well as exchange between Canadian and Polish Theatres, directors, actors, teachers and students.
- To examine similarities and differences between Canadian and Polish professional Theaters’ structure and strategy as well as methodology used in by acting academies in educating young actors.

We will be visiting actor’s training sessions at:
- The A.Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw
- The L.Schiller PWSFTv i T (National Film, Television and Theatre Academy) in Lodz
- The L.Solski Theatre Academy in Krakow

We will have meetings with:
Mrs. Ewa Cichocka – Cultural Relations Officer of Embassy of Canada to Poland in Warsaw.
Mrs. Barbara Borys Damiecka – Polish Senator.
Mr. Tomasz Dutkiewicz – General & Artistic Director of the Teatr Komedia in Warsaw.
Mr. Grzegorz Bral – Artistic Director of the Studio Theatre in Warsaw.
Krzysztof Toronczyk – General Manager of the Teatr Narodowy (National Theatre) in Warsaw
Mr. Bernhard L. Otterstein, Vice-President of the Polish – Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw.
Mrs. Ewa Ger – Director of the Department of International Relations at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Mrs. Ewa Pilawska – Artistic Director of the Teatr Powszechny in Lodz.
Mr. Wojciech Nowicki – General Manager of the Teatr Jaracza in Lodz.
Mr. Mikolaj Grabowski – Artistic and General Director of the Teatr Stary in Krakow.

Performances to watch:
- Artaud. Sobowtór I jego teatr.(Artaud. Doppelganger and his Theatre) at the Studio Theatre in Warsaw.
- Według Agafii,(based on the play Marriage by Nikolai Gogol) dir. Agata Duda-Gracz at the Teatr Jaracza in Lodz.
- Oresteja (Orestea) dir. Jan Klata, at the Teatr Stary in Krakow
- Merlin – inna historia (Merlin – the Other Story) dir. Ondrej Spisak, at the Laboratory Theatre in Warsaw.

English Translation of play: Prof. Kevin Windle

This North American premiere is performed for the first time in English. Don’t miss it!!!  Canadian actors are showing their talents in a European play using three different theatrical styles.

The three acts have widely differing historical, cultural and geographical settings and a varying cast of characters when produced as a unified work. Only the “savior” in all acts is being performed by the same actor.

Act I: Seville, 1493. At the height of the inquisition, a Jewish girl renounces her background and religion to marry the Christian grandee (Saviour) whom she loves. He, Alonso, is thus “rescuing” her from Jewry, and also saving her father’s life by smuggling him out of Spain.

Act II: Holland, 1793. A saddler and his wife have to accommodate two French soldiers (Saviours) of the “liberating” Napoleon Bonaparte army, bringing their notion of liberty, equality and fraternity into an area where these are neither welcomed nor understood. It is a mix of brilliant and sophisticated humour with tragic consequences.

Act III: Poland, 1953, time of “Stalinism”. The hallucinations of a state-security interrogator (Saviour), involving a visit from his mentor who operated in the days when “ideals” meant something and there were still “real” enemies to be sought out.

Director & Producer: Mirek Polatynski
Set and Costume Designer: Joanna Dabrowski

Fight Director: Simon Fon
Light Designer and SM: Bogdan Paszkiewicz

Photos and visual media: Peter Bacler

CAST:
Colin Murphy
Julia Lefebvre
Adam Kolozsvari
Heather Couch
Andrew Fleming

Official Premiere: Feb. 26/2010 @ 8pm
Next shows:                   Feb.27/2010 @ 2pm & 8pm
Feb.28 @ 2pm
Toronto Centre for the Arts, North York, 4050 Yonge Street

Tickets: Adult $30;  Students & Seniors $22 (with valid student ID)
Box Office: (416) 872.1111    also  online: www.tocentre.com

WARNING: This show contains a gunshot!!!

Photo Gallery: View Flickr Slideshow

On the Very Corner of that Old Map
(Na Samym Rogu tej Starej Mapy)
Nov. 6 @ 8pm; Nov. 7 @ 11am and 7pm Nov. 8 @ 6pm
MiST Theatre; U of T Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Rd. North
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On the very corner of that old map
There is the place I miss so much.
It is the Land of apples, hills,
tart wine and love.

A Stage Performance supported by multimedia (famous Polish painters and archive films) inspired by poetry and songs written by Jacek Kaczmarski.

…although I shot past you like a shadow…

Five years after Jacek Kaczmarski’s passing, I am listening to his Epitaph for Vladimir Vysotski as though it were the epitaph he wrote for himself. Kaczmarski did not spare his vocal cords or his heart. All in order to bear witness to his time and to the truth which is never easy, irrespective of the time in which we are destined to search for it. Kaczmarski was not only a singer, he was a poet as well, one that knew how to describe our common fate in a precise and erudite way, to describe our fate as both human beings and Poles. In fact, he was more than a poet, he was a National Bard in times of Poland’s enslavement, and also when our country lay bare her indigence and sins after regaining sovereignty. There was not a false note to Kaczmarski’s patriotism, even though he emigrated twice, both times exposing himself to criticism. The first time he left under Solidarity, only to be with us on the waves of Radio Free Europe. The second time he went seemingly for good, to collect mussels on Australian beaches instead of assisting us in the process of building a free Poland. Eventually, though, he returned for eternity, shoulder to shoulder with Thanatos, a comeback worthy of a picture by the great symbolist painter Jacek Malczewski. In the late seventies, he came to the Krakow Festival of Student Songs. These were very popular events at the time, even if hardly advertised in the public media under communism. And it was his song The Walls that won the first prize, becoming the milestone in his varied and extraordinary career. It paved a totally new path in the Polish literary and stage canon. He engaged his entire self in his singing, passionate, profound, and uncompromising. He filled in a shameful gap in the Polish tradition, probing our past, contemplating art, looking under the mantle of historic events in order to expose both the beauty and the sins of the Polish soul. It wasn’t an easy proposition; most artists choose to wear bright commercial costumes instead, turning their backs on their mother country, tired of looking on festering wounds. In my emigrant wandering, I lost my Jacek Kaczmarski recordings, listened to so many times. There were a great many of them, his repertoire unending, with hundreds of songs to his name, most of them genuine jewels. And his disturbing comments on our national identity, on inner honesty and the sense of being will stay with us forever, helping us to endure, to discern rays of light in the dark.

Aleksander Rybczynski

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The Battle of Grunwald (Bitwa pod Grunwaldem) based on Tadeusz Borowski novel.

This show is organized by Atlas Stage Productions Canada under the auspices of Consul General Marek Ciesielczuk of the Republic of Poland Consulate in Toronto, to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the beginning of World War II which started with the Nazi invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 followed by the Soviet invasion on September 17th, 1939. These acts of aggression against Poland were preceded by a Treaty of Non-Aggression signed in Moscow, between Germany and the Soviet Union, in the early hours of August 24, 1939 called the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.Place

Cast:
Monika Obara, Aleksander Bednarz, Dominik Bąk, Stanisław Brudny, Jacek Król, Robert Majewski, Krzysztof Skonieczny, Janusz Stolarski, Krzysztof Strużycki, Karol Wróblewski, Mirosław Zbrojewicz.

Director and adaptation: Marek Fiedor
Set Design: Nika Jaworowska
Music composer: Tomasz Hynek
Light Design: Wojciech Puś
General Manager and Artistic Director: Bartosz Zaczykiewicz
www.teatrstudio.pl

Warning!!!
The show contains nudity, and coarse language.
Przedstawienie zawiera sceny nagości, oraz używanie nieobyczajnego języka.

Enwave Theatre at Harbourfront Centre
231 Queens Quay West, Toronto
ON, M5J 2G8

Information Hotline: (416) 973-4000‎
Web: harbourfrontcentre.com , view site map …

Friday Sept. 11/2009 @ 8pm
Saturday Sept. 12/2009 @ 3pm & 7pm

Tickets:Adults: $37; Students & Seniors: $27
Last Minute Tickets only for students with valid ID and subject to availability

Tickets purchased before Aug 30th, 2009
Adults:$32; Students & Seniors: $22

To buy tickets call (416) 973-4000 or click here…

Bridging theatrical gaps between all cultures and countries. The show will be performed in Polish and translated into English simultaneously. Przedstawienie będzie grane po polsku z jednoczesnym tłumaczeniem na angielski.

Invite your Polish friends! Zaproś swoich kanadyjskich przyjaciół!

A Stage Performance inspired by poetry and songs written by Jacek Kaczmarski

Script and Directing: Mirek Polatynski
Cast: Mirek Polatynski – acoustic guitar, singer
Janusz Marczak – acoustic guitar, singer
Sergey Krutik – piano, key board

Set designer – Joanna Dabrowska
Lighting Designer – Bogdan Paszkiewicz
Multimedia and visual effects directing – Mirek Polatynski
Sound effects – Studios ALCATRAX
Multimedia editing – Peter Bacler
Posters, Flyers, Program Design – YoYa Studio

This evening’s show is a prelude to an upcoming, big stage performance being prepared by Mirek Polatynski and his Atlas Stage Productions ensemble for the opening of Fall 2009.
Przedstawienie dzisiejsze jest zapowiedzią i częścią większego widowiska teatralnego przygotowywanego przez Mirka Połatyńskiego i jego zespół Atlas Stage Productions na pokaz jesienią 2009.

This show was prepared by Atlas Stage Productions Canada under the auspices of Consul General Marek Ciesielczuk of the Republic of Poland Consulate in Toronto, to celebrate: The 5th Anniversary of Jacek Kaczmarski’s death and the 20th Anniversary since the proclamation of the fall of Communism in Poland, in June 1989.

A special thank you to Polish artist, Jerzy Kolacz of Toronto, for permission to use his paintings and artwork in this performance.

World Premiere and Opening Night:
June 19, 2009 @ Robert Gill Theatre, The University of Toronto
214 College St. ( Koffler Centre ), Toronto, ON

Second show: June 20, 2009 – 8pm

read more about Jacek Kaczmarski …

TORONTO – Atlas Terminal – An International Arts Presentation hosted by Atlas Stage Productions Canada along with Artistic Director Miro Polatynski will be presenting the Canadian premiere of ‘Alibi’ by Lukasz Wylezalek from The Adam Mickiewicz Theatre (Czestochowa – Poland) in the Studio Theatre of the Toronto Centre for the Arts on Friday May 15 at 8pm and Saturday May 16, 2009 at 6pm & 8pm.
This witty criminal story takes place in the Polish Mountains, at the Czech Republic/Germany border. It unmasks the life of provincial people, their needs, emotions and desires. It grips you, draws you close and gets you to empathize with a set of ordinary but clearly defined characters.

Alibi’s sophisticated humour uncovers a Europe vastly different from what you’re read in history books or heard from your Grandfather’s stories. Writer/Director Lukasz Wylezalek’s plays are powerfully authentic and often dominated by the harshness of reality. Wylezalek is the director of the acclaimed Polish film Balanga (The Bash) and is the author of the films Darmozjad Polski (The Polish Freeloader) and O dwoch takich co nic nie ukradli.

The play features the acting talents of Paula Kwietniewska, Adam Hutyra and Michal Kula.

Designed by: Mariusz Pala
Lighting Designer: Zbigniew Checinski
Music: Janusz Yanina Iwanski
Sound Designer: Zdzislaw Kubziankowski
Assistant Director: Mariuz Korek

Atlas Stage Productions is a theatre company that showcases Canadian diversity to an international audience by staging productions of new Canadian works. Their inaugural production at the Toronto Centre for the Arts was Theatre of the Film Noir in March 2009.

‘Alibi’ will be performed in Polish and translated into English simultaneously.

Cast (in order of appearance):
Inspector Clair, a police detective: Rafal Sokolowski

Bernard, a civilian clerk: Benjamin Blais, Aris Athanasopoulos
Lilliane, a former shop girl: Heather Couch, Magdalena Alexander
Eric, a German soldier: Paul Kit, Erol Nowak (Austria),
Hank, an American soldier: Marcel Stewart, Rahaman Tunde Agiri

Stage Manager: Adrienne Lister
Light & Sound Operator: Matt Drappel
Set and Light Designer: Kevin Winson
Costume Designer: Joanna Dabrowska
Poster Designer: Boleslaw Polnar (Poland)
Blues Composer: Ola Turkiewicz
Sound Effects: alcatrax Recording Studio
Stage Fighting: Simon Fon
Graphic draw up (posters, flyers, programs): Iwona Dufaj

Paris. 1944. The war is over, but nothing is certain; loyalties shift; questions of life, sex, guilt, and death hang on the nationality of a bar of chocolate or a pack of cigarettes. In the murky atmosphere a murder has been committed, and five desperate people try to solve the mystery in this hardedge, breathless black comedy…

Theatre of the Film Noir, directed by Mirek Polatynski, is set in Paris shortly after its liberation from German occupation forces during the Second World War. Director explores the crushing panic of people placed on the brink of hell’s end and an uncertain future of peace. George F. Walker’s unique Canadian perspective seeks neither heroes nor villains. Neither does he judge the aggressors nor raise monuments to heroism. He simply shows the bare structure of a human being driven by fear and a need to survive – unfettered by values generally considered humanitarian. This constitutes the timeliness and universality of the play, which encompasses all wars and its victims, including current conflicts. World War II serves as a pretext to examine the heart of the matter. The director does not dwell on its tragedy as such – for we are all well aware of the obvious – but rather focuses on how easily human nature loses itself under the strain of extreme influences, when fear becomes the determining factor driving survival.

Fall 2008:
The Theatre Centre 1087 Queen St. West, Suite 100, Toronto., ON
Opening: Sept. 17th, 2008 @ 7pm
Matinees @ 1pm: Sept. 18, 20, 2008
Matinee @ 2pm: Sept. 21 (Sunday – PWYC), 2008
Evenings @ 7pm: Sept. 17, 18, 20, 2008
Evening @ 6pm: 19 Sept. with Fundraising & 21 Sept, 2008 (Sunday)

European Tour 05-10-2008 to 29-10-2008
05/10/08: ARRIVAL, Warsaw, Poland
07/10/08: CZESTOCHOWA:International Theatre Festival “Through the Touch” @ 7pm
08/10/08: CZESTOCHOWA – Festival “Through the Touch” – @ 11am & 6pm
10/10/08: OPOLE @ 6pm
11/10/08: OPOLE @ 3pm & 6pm
12/10/08: LEGNICA @ 7pm
13/10/08: WROCLAW/ Workshop: Grotowski Institute
14/10/08: Workshop: Theatre Academy PWST, Wroclaw
16/10/08 Tour: Oswiecim (Auschwitz)
17/10/08: Krakow – Workshop: Theatre Academy PWST, Krakow
19/10/08: Tour: Barbakan & Old Town, Krakow/ Travel to Vienna, Austria
21/10/08: VIENNA @ 7.30pm
22/10/08: Theater in der Josefstadt/ PERFORMANCE @ 7.30pm Vienna
23/10/08: PERFORMANCE @ 7.30pm
24/10/08: Max Reindhardt Seminar/ PERFORMANCE @ 7.30pm
25/10/08: PERFORMANCE @ 7.30pm
28/10/08: WARSAW
29/10/08: DEPARTURE for Toronto, ON, Canada

Winter 2009:
Living Arts Centre (RBS Theatre), 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga.
Feb 27, 2009 @ 7pm
Feb 28, 2009 @ 4pm
Feb 28, 2009 @ 7pm

At Living Arts Centre in Mississauga the show was translated into Polish simultaneously.
W teatrze Living Arts Centre w Mississauga tłumaczenie sztuki było wyświetlane równocześnie w języku polskim.

Toronto Centre for the Arts (Studio Theatre), North York, 5040 Yonge Street, Toronto. www.tocentre.com

March 7, 2009 @ 8pm
March 8, 2009 @ 6pm