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adam mickiewicz institute
T
THEATRE AND
PERFORMING ARTS
TRIUMPHANT SONG
OF THE GOAT
Edinburgh
3–27.08.2012
“It is a full-body detox; catharsis pure and simple and
transcendent. InaFringe chock-full of profanity,
Songs of Lear
is something sacred”, wrote the
Edinburgh Festival Guide
.
Director Grzegorz Bral chose key scenes from Shakespeare’s
King Lear
to create a story composed of gestures, words, and music. Dialogues
have been replaced with a play of emotions expressed through a cycle
of 12 songs.
Apart from the Fringe First 2012, in Edinburgh this production from
Teatr Pieśń Kozła/Song of the Goat Theatre won a Musical Theatre
Matters Special Award (for an experimental work showing excellence
in where the musical form may develop), the prestigious Herald
Archangel from
The Herald
daily, and won first place in the theatre
critics’ ranking published by the culturemagazine
The List
. Fromamong
approx. 3,000 shows presented at the Fringe, Bral’s work got the most
stars.
Every year the Fringe Festival brings in an audience of half a million
people and is considered to be the world’s biggest theatre festival. In
summer 2012, we presented 12 shows there, most of them playing for
E
Edinburgh
The Song of the Goat Theatre
receives its Fringe First award
photo: Douglas Robertson Photography
