Teatr Współczesny w Szczecinie, 2022
“Faithless” – a performance realized as part of the Scena New Situations Artistic Residency. It is an autobiographical account by director Hana Umeda of her experience of religiosity shaped by the Movement of the Families of Nazareth – a Marian community operating within the Catholic Church, placing special emphasis on obedience and mystical union with God in a deep sense of her own “spiritual poverty.” Becoming a public “confession of loss of faith,” it raises questions about the possibility of freeing oneself from the religiosity formed by the community and the effectiveness of the act of apostasy.
“Faithless” is about the trauma of coming into contact with an extreme, “sectarian” faction within the Catholic Church, but also about how the Catholic Church, at least in Poland, treats children violently. (…) What emerges from this is an unpretentious play about terrible things, conducted surprisingly lightly.”
Witold Mrozek, Gazeta Wyborcza
Cast:
Rytualnica 1 / Samarytanka: Maria Dąbrowska
Rytualnica 2 / Oblubienica: Joanna Matuszak
Hana Umeda: Hana Umeda/ Sada Hanasaki
Rytualnik 3 / Zawierzona: Arkadiusz Buszko
Rytualnik 4 / Dziecko: Przemysław Walich
Director: Hana Umeda
Text: Weronika Murek, Hana Umeda
Dramaturgy: Daria Kubisiak
Choreography: Katarzyna Sitarz
Music: Olga Myslowska
Costumes: Marta Szypulska
Light direction: Aleksandr Prowalinski
Assistant director: Maria Dabrowska