doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Grzegorz Jarzyna

GRZEGORZ JARZYNA  

 Nationality:    Polish
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    n/a


I do not have a biography of this Playwright. Please help doollee to become even more complete by sending me any information you have
thank you

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

below is a list of Grzegorz Jarzyna's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 2008: Macbeth         Nosferatu         T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T.

2008: Macbeth

Synopsis:
Military commander Macbeth unleashes a nightmare of carnage and destruction. a war on terror that is a war of terror. Set in a contemporary and brutal Middle Eastern conflict, 2008: Macbeth is unflinching in its depiction of the machine of violence that, once set in motion, works faster and ever more efficiently. If killing in a war is justified, so is killing in the privacy of one's home. If you can kill men, why not also women and children? With spectacular pyrotechnics, immersive video effects and an extraordinary, layered soundscape that plays tricks on the ear, Shakespeare's web of politics, ambition and the supernatural is transformed into a contemporary, and highly physical, theatrical film.

Notes:
after William Shakespeare. Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak. Directed And Adapted by Grzegorz Jarzyna And TR Warszawa. Performed in Polish with English supertitles

1st Produced:
Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh    11 Aug 2012

Organisations:
Edinburgh International Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Nosferatu

Synopsis:
Nosferatu is a dark enthralling interpretation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, a masterpiece of Gothic horror and one of the most evocative texts in popular culture, having spawned countless works of literature, drama and film since its publication in 1897. The novel boasts one of the most sinister characters ever created, Count Dracula, the father of all vampires trapped between life and death, whose diabolical passions prey upon the innocent and the beautiful. Seducing his audience into a dream-like state, Grzegorz Jarzyna uses the vampiric myth of life after death and the regenerative power of blood in this psychological and metaphysical thriller. Nosferatu explores the conflict between the fear of the unknown entrenched in human nature and our enduring fascination with dark secrets, obsessions and the need for transgression.

Notes:
Inspired by Bram Stokers Dracula. Performed in Polish with English surtitles

1st Produced:

Organisations:
TR Warszawa and Teatr Narodowy

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  extra

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T.

Synopsis:
as a prologue to the play proper, the man we will come to know as the father, Paolo (Jan Englert), takes questions from 'the audience' (nice work for three Wellington actors). Thus he opines that society is doomed because everyone is conforming to the global standards of capitalism, public television is imposing images controlled by demagogues, the church is a product of necessity and the notion of consolation is meaningless. He defends his life's work as a manufacturer, and the wealth that has brought him. and when asked if he believes in God, he replies, thrice: "I don't understand the question." Towards the end of the play, vox-pop projections canvass working class people on whether they believe in miracles, eliciting notions of what would constitute a miracle in their lives.
- theatreview.org.nz

Notes:
Direction And script: Grzegorz Jarzyna. Based on the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini

1st Produced:
SB Bank arena, Queens Wharf, Wellington    13 Mar 2010

Organisations:
TR Warszawa production | Poland

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
135 min Piece

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page