Review
The Islandic Pill
19.02.2024
The starting point for the play is Weronika Murek's drama, a bit different from her poetic, filled with the unobvious strangeness prose. For that drama the author worked both as a reporter and historian - she prepared a very dense text of facts and references, telling stories about Iceland and it's residents. But it is also about Poles living among them. There are many expressive figures here, historical and imaginary, noble and suspicious, self-confident and confused.
It has given a space for excellent actors from the Kielce Theatre team to act a several characters at once: they can build a variety of protagonists, sometimes by trying to outline someone's exuberant personality in just one scene. As a result of their talents and directing ideas of Una Thorleifsdottir this performance flashes before the eyes like a moving exhibition of human types, freak shows and quite ordinary characters. Yet always interesting characters.
The strong feature of the inscenization is - as always, when it comes to this creator - the stage scenagrphy by Mirek Kaczmarek: with the help of simple, monumental objects, he managed to conjure up characteristic Icelandic landscapes on stage. On the musical surface, this illusion is complemented by soft, cool music written by Gisli Galdur Thorgeirsson.
Przemysław Gulda, "Wysokie obcasy" no. 4