Snake Skin
Artur Urbański directs his own play which main character is Ruth Berlau, one of Bertolt Brecht's closest associates and life companions.
The year 1955. The young Polish director Konrad Swinarski joins the world-famous Berliner Ensemble theatre as a trainee. He becomes a witness to a destructive conflict between two women closely related to the founder of the theatre, Bertolt Brecht. He observes Ruth Berlau's dramatic struggle with the "first wife" – Helene Weigel: for attention, recognition, memory and power. He learns about the moving stories of women who contribute to the legend of the master and the great institution called "Brecht".
Please mind that cigarette smoke appears in some scenes during the show.
director, set and lighting design: Artur Urbański
costume design: Magdalena Maciejewska
music: Szymon Nidzworski
choreography: Tobiasz Sebastian Berg
video: Natalia Spychała
Cast
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Beata Fudalej
Ruth Berlau
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Aleksandra Justa
Helene Weigel
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Anna Ułas
Käthe Reichel; Girl
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Joanna Kwiatkowska-Zduń
Käthe Reichel; Girl
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Magdalena Warzecha
Elisabeth Hauptmann; Girl
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Monika Dryl
Maria Eich; Girl
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Joanna Gryga
Isot Kilian; Girl
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Kacper Matula
Stefan Brecht
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Paweł Głowaty
Konrad Swinarski (guest actor)
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Jacek Mikołajczak
Doctor; Actor
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Waldemar Kownacki
Pope; Actor
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Arkadiusz Janiczek
Minister; Actor
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Paweł Tołwiński
Secretary; Deacon; Assistant; Patient; Actor
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Marek Barbasiewicz
Gerhard Thieme
Production team
- director's assistant: Maciej Białoruski
- lighting technicians: Łukasz Obuch-Woszczatyński, Tomasz Księżak
- sound technicians: Marcin Kotwa, Maciej Rybicki
video projection: Mariusz Chałubek, Paweł Woźniak
- stage manager: Adam Borkowski
- prompter: Anna Leszczyńska
