Rape. Voices
Sylwia Chutnik
director
Agnieszka Błońska
premiere
7 December 2015
running time
1 godz. (bez przerwy)
stage
scena mała

PHOTO GALLERY

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CREATIVES

directed by - Agnieszka Błońska

dramaturgy and elements of text -  Sylwia Chutnik

lighting design and projections - Artur Sienicki

assistant director -  Wanda Onyszkiewicz-Gnap

producer - Anna Grzelewska

 

PERFORMED BY

Alicja Aleksandrowicz

Agnieszka Bińczycka

Ana Forma

Jolanta Gawęda

Elżbieta Hołoweńko

Aleksandra Magryta

Rozalia Merzicka

Danuta Nagórna

Zofia Nawrocka

Jolanta Olszewska

Natalia Skoczylas

Alina Synakiewicz

Anna Zajdel

Musicians:

Kamil Bielecki

Michał Wróblewski

SYNOPSIS


When he finished, he said: be silent. Go back to the playground.

And I was silent. Be silent. I was silent.
(…)
Dirt, rag, you’re worth nothing. You treat yourself as a table.
Against yourself you dress it in some kind of secrecy.
That it didn’t happen.

A dance of self-destruction.
(…)
Somebody destroyed you.

 

 

To hear the unheard. To see the unseen. To come out of silence.

 

To confront violence. Disagree with secrets.

 

Rape. Voices is a theatrical protest against the universal fact of sexual violence towards women. It’s an attempt to understand the complexity of this problem and to challenge its social perception. It’s giving a voice to those, who are usually not asked: women who have experienced sexual violence. Women who in their multiplied voices tell us about the experience which doesn’t have a nationality, age or sexual orientation: rape. The voices of women interweave here with each other, drawing on individual experiences and different stories. Stories, which happened for real.

 

The starting point of this work was a sociological research project exploring the subject of sexual violence in Poland and the situation of women who had experienced rape, carried out by STER, the Association for Equality and Emancipation from Warsaw in collaboration with VICTORIA, the Association for Women from Rzeszow and WAGA, the Association from Gdansk. Results showed clearly that a conversation about sexual violence, especially about rape, is still very difficult, if possible at all. Rape is still one of the most traumatic and silenced experiences. Until the end of one’s life it remains a painful open wound. Many women don’t talk about it with their families and friends and don’t take legal actions against their oppressors. For most of women participating in this research the meeting with the interviewer was the first time they talked about their experience of rape. The performance was created in a dialogue with this research and refers directly to the conversations with its participants.

 

 

Gwałt. Głosy (Rape. Voices) was produced by STER, the Association for Equality and Emancipation in collaboration with Teatr Powszechny and it’s a part of a larger project Breaking Taboo – Rights of Victims of Sexual Violence.

Teatr Powszechny
im. Zygmunta Hübnera
ul. Jana Zamoyskiego 20
03-801 Warszawa
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