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The audience of the Avignon Festival awarded MOTHERS three times with fifteen-minute standing ovations. According to the Festival organizers, such applause has never happened in the history of the Festival. The show was watched by nearly 9,000 people from all over the world. Reviews of MOTHERS directed by Marta Górnicka have appeared in dozens of […]
MOTHERS will start autumn tournee very soon. We will visit France, Germany and Poland. Dates you will find below: October 5 and 6, 2024 – Teatr Powszechny (Warsaw, Poland), October 9 and 11, 2024 – Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine (Bordeaux, France), October 15 and 19, 2024 – Théâtre du Rond-Point (Paris, France), October 24 and 25, […]
They are survivors. They are refugees from war and persecution, witnesses to violence and destruction. They use the power of their voices to name what cannot be put into words. Their singing becomes an accusation, a plea and a warning to us and to all people in Europe. After a celebrated and shattering performance at […]
“MOTHERS SONG FOR WARTIME” was reworded three standing ovations from the audience nine thousand. The anger of Marta Górnicka shooked the walls of Avignon”- wrote Amelie Blausten – Niddam at CULTNEWS.FR. ‘Its more than a show, MOTHERS is an act, a strong act, a great gesture that ends in a total communion where love is […]
July 9, 10,11 MOTHERS A SONG FOR WARTIME” by Marta Górnicka will be shown in the honorary courtyard of the Papal Palace as part of the Festival d’Avignon
Marta Górnicka returns to SPRING! She is bringing a choir of 21 women of different ages, backgrounds and professions. In a powerful testimony of the realities of war, each of them tells her own story of how war has changed her life, while collectively they try to find a way to overcome the horror
MOTHERS are starting European tournee and visit in May and June: Piccolo Teatro di Milano European Theatre Festival Presente Indicativo (18–19.05.), SPRING UTRECHT Performing Arts Festival (23.05.) KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen (25.05.), Auawirleben Theaterfestival Bern (28.05.), Tangente St. Pölten (5–6.06.), Festival SZENE Salzburg (07.06), Theatre Democracy Festival Freiburg (15–16.06.)
They are survivors. They are refugees from war and persecution, witnesses to violence and destruction. They use the power of their voices to name what cannot be put into words. Their singing becomes an accusation, a plea and a warning to us and to all people in Europe. After a celebrated and shattering performance at […]
The audience of the 30th International Festival of Pleasant and Unpleasant Arts, casting their votes (online and traditionally – by filling out plebiscite cards), awarded: The title of the Best Performance to the: “MOTHERS. A SONG FOR THE TIME OF WAR” based on the concept, libretto and directed by Marta Górnicka (co-production of the Women’s […]
They are survivors. They are refugees from war and persecution, witnesses to violence and destruction. They use the power of their voices to name what cannot be put into words. Their singing becomes an accusation, a plea and a warning to us and to all people in Europe. After a celebrated and shattering performance at […]
The Polish director Marta Górnicka presents a choral piece with 21 refugee women – a healing ritual inspired by the ones dedicated to women in the seventh century BC. “Our performance is about women and war. About defense mechanisms and responsibility. About our reaction to a war in Europe. About the rituals of wartime violence against […]
A performance of 21 Ukrainian, Polish, Belarusian mothers and their children. The wartime rituals of violence against women are unchanging. War asks Europe the ultimate questions: about responsibility in the face of danger, and about our defense mechanisms. Out of the testimonies of mothers and children—Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles: those who have fled war; those […]
A performance of 21 Ukrainian, Polish, Belarusian mothers and their children. The wartime rituals of violence against women are unchanging. War asks Europe the ultimate questions: about responsibility in the face of danger, and about our defense mechanisms. Out of the testimonies of mothers and children—Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles: those who have fled war; those […]
A performance of 21 Ukrainian, Polish, Belarusian mothers and their children. The wartime rituals of violence against women are unchanging. War asks Europe the ultimate questions: about responsibility in the face of danger, and about our defense mechanisms. Out of the testimonies of mothers and children—Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles: those who have fled war; those […]