The Piano Has Been Drinking
Whittier, Southern Californa – the place where he grew up and where all its strange dwellers with colourful biographies live. Life stories fictitious and real at the same time.
Lunatic who sells vegetables, a hairdresser secretly drinking booze, and a number of other peculiar characters – they all sing Tom Waits' lyrics. The verses of the American songwriter develop into a tale of wandering, deep love and fleeting romances, desires and sudden rushes of emotion. The intensity of feelings is reflected by unruly sounds, which illustrate how bittersweet life in Whittier is – a small town torn between the God and the devil.
director: Marcin Przybylski
arrangement of songs: Marcin Przybylski
translator: Roman Kołakowski
musical arrangements: Andrzej Perkman
set design, lighting design: Anna Skupień, Katarzyna Szczurowska
costume design: Monika Onoszko
stage movement: Anna Gryszkówna
Music band:
Andrzej Perkman – keyboard instruments, guitar
Bartosz Tkacz / Wiesław Wysocki – saxophone
Wojciech Gumiński / Maciej Matysiak / Konrad Kubicki / Paweł Zwierzyński – double bass, bass guitar
Jakub Kinsner / Bartosz Mikołaj Nazaruk / Mariusz Mocarski / Szymon Linette / Fryderyk Młynarski – drums
Cast:
Anna Chodakowska
Monika Dryl
Wiesława Niemyska (guest actress)
Paulina Korthals
Anna Lobedan
Paulina Szostak
Karol Dziuba
Robert Jarociński
Waldemar Kownacki
Jerzy Łapiński / Kacper Matula (from September 29, 2017 till October 26, 2017)
Marcin Przybylski
Jacek Różański
Mateusz Rusin
Production team:
- director's assistant: Monika Wiktoria Gołębiewska
- set designers' assistant: Elwira Szyszka
- costume designer's assistant: Anita Trzaskowska
- lighting technicians: Andrzej Jabłoński, Łukasz Obuch-Woszczatyński
- sound technicians: Piotr Gos, Wojciech Wojtulanis
- stage manager: Krzysztof Kuszczyk / Adam Borkowski
