California’s Transversal Theater Poland Tour Concludes With Gdansk Shakespeare Festival

12 August 2008

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The California-based Transversal Theater Company returned to Poland for its third tour in four years, announced Cultural Attaché James Wolfe. The company performed its new musical, Lumping in Fargo, written by Bryan Reynolds and composer Michael Hooker, at Teatr Rozrywki in Chorzow on July 30 and the Gdańsk International Shakespeare Festival on August 8 and 9 at the Teatr Wybrzeże Malarnia. Their offbeat production played to a packed house in their Gdansk appearances. In 2005, they brought their production of Reynolds’ play Woof, Daddy to Rampa-Teatr Na Targówku in Warsaw, Teatr Polski-Malarnia in Poznan, and Teatr Kana in Szczecin. Last year they performed Blue Shade, also written by resident playwright Reynolds, at Teatr Lalek in Wrocław, Teatr Modjeska in Legnica, and Teatr 77 in Łódź. 

Collaging King Lear, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It and several other of Shakespeare’s plays, Lumping in Fargo rock operas the eccentric world of multi-millionaire misanthrope Leopold Wallersheim out of a tempestuous winter that could only be mellowed by his puckish retro 80s new wave poodle, Elvira, until the melodious voice of a nubile furniture mover, Cathy Lynn Bommerbasch, ignites hitherto unimagined passions. Yet the Fargoean romantics are unexpectedly muffled when accusations of a terrible crime compromise their idyllic future. The ensuing drama, haunted by tragic histories as well as ghostly forbearance, raises questions unanswerable by Betty Sue and Linda Lou. Who they are, of course, remains a mystery until you go Lumping in Fargo.

For more information, please see:

http://www.teatr-rozrywki.pl/repertuar.php

http://kultura.trojmiasto.pl/spektakl.php?id=850

http://www.bryanreynolds.com