Wlodzimierz staniewski biography of abraham

Contents: March 4,
(1)"Metamorphosis"
(2)"The Cat's Paw"
(3)"Now That Communism is Dead, My Life Feels Empty!"
(4)"Optic Fever"

"Metamorphosis or The Golden Donkey"
written and directed by Wlodzimierz Staniewski
Produced by La MaMa in association with Double Edge Theatre
The Annex at La MaMa ETC, 66 East 4th Street


Opened January 24,
Closed
Reviewed by Lucy Komisar January 26,

There's a sense of the primordial in Wlodzimierz Staniewski's striking musical evocation of the ancient Greeks.

Part song, with a hint of opera, part twirling dance, and a great deal of primitive drama. The actors sometimes seem to be Polish peasants with twisted faces, or they are wrapped in white togas, or bear crowns of thorns, or exhibit a tail and a "hee haw."

The Polish theater company, Gardzienice Center for Theatre Practices, an ensemble Staniewski founded in , presents here a story from the ancient Greek theater using the tradition of the time, in which dialogue wa