Summerscene 2024 - Marta Górnicka
Marta Górnicka, Mothers - A Song for Wartime, Theatre
In Mothers - A Song for Wartime, Polish director Marta Górnicka juxtaposes the noise of war with the powerful singing of a women's choir.
They are survivors. They are refugees from war and violence from Ukraine and Belarus, now living in Poland, who want to stand on stage and speak together with women from Warsaw. They impressively use the power of their voices to name what there are no words for. They want to be heard not as victims, but as protagonists of their stories. 21 women and one girl use the concentrated power of their voices to vehemently oppose destructive forces and make their political demands heard. The theatre gives space to a community that transcends ideologies and is based on sensitive listening to each other.
Marta Górnicka is a theatre director, writer, singer and rediscoverer of the choral principle. Since 2010 she has been working consistently on the sound and movement language of the chorus, using it both as a critical instrument to examine modern mechanisms of control, exclusion and violence, and as a tool for creating community.
In Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian with English and German surtitles.
