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A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique)

The Wooster Group takes on one of the greatest figures in 20th century avant-garde theater: the iconic Polish stage director Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990). Joining the Group as our guide and dramaturge is Kantor’s only daughter, Dorota Krakowska. Together, we explore Kantor’s penultimate production, I Shall Never Return, and through it, his lifelong obsession with the myth of the return of Odysseus.

Media & Ephemera

Jim Fletcher and Danusia Trevino in The Wooster Group's THE PINK CHAIR. Photo: Maria Baranova, 2017.
Zbigniew Bzymek, Kate Valk, Ari Fliakos, Dorota Krakowska, Suzzy Roche, Erin Mullin, Danusia Trevino, Enver Chakartash, Jim Fletcher, and Gareth Hobbs in The Wooster Group's THE PINK CHAIR. Photo: Maria Baranova, 2017.
Dorota Krakowska [on screen], Erin Mullin, and Suzzy Roche in The Wooster Group's THE PINK CHAIR. Photo: Maria Baranova, 2017.
Erin Mullin, Gareth Hobbs, Suzzy Roche, and Jim Fletcher in The Wooster Group's THE PINK CHAIR. Photo: Maria Baranova, 2017.
Ari Fliakos, Kate Valk, Zbigniew Bzymek, Jim Flecher, Danusia Trevino, Suzzy Roche, Erin Mullin, Gareth Hobbs in The Wooster Group's THE PINK CHAIR. Photo: Maria Baranova, 2017.
Zbigniew Bzymek in The Wooster Group's THE PINK CHAIR. Photo: Maria Baranova, 2017.
Jim Fletcher, Suzzy Roche, and Dorota Krakowska [on screen] in The Wooster Group's THE PINK CHAIR. Photo: Steve Gunther, 2018.
Zbigniew Bzymek in The Wooster Group's THE PINK CHAIR. Photo: Steve Gunther, 2018.
Danusia Trevino and Jim Fletcher in The Wooster Group's THE PINK CHAIR. Photo: Herve Veronese, 2019.
Enver Chakartash, Danusia Trevino, Jim Fletcher, Suzzy Roche, Gareth Hobbs, Andrew Maillet in The Wooster Group's THE PINK CHAIR. Photo: Herve Veronese, 2019.
Danusia Ttrevino, Gareth Hobbs, Erin Mullin, Enver Chakartash, Andrew Maillt, and Jim Fletcher in The Wooster Group's THE PINK CHAIR. Photo: Herve Veronese, 2019.

Production History

Additional Credits

During the April 28-June 2, 2018, performances at The Performing Garage, Scott Shepherd and Matthew Dipple performed the roles normally performed by Enver Chakartash

Translations and musical arrangements by The Wooster Group.

Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this piece: Ruud van den Akker, Eric Dyer, Laura Hopkins, and Bozkurt Karasu (set elements); and Antonia Belt, Claudia Hill, and Elizabeth Jenyon (costume elements).

Excerpts from the film of I Shall Never Return courtesy of the filmmaker Andrzej Sapija.

Special thanks to Scott Shepherd and Paul Lazar.

A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique) was co-commissioned by Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, Poland, and the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College where it premiered at the Bard SummerScape Festival in 2017.

Performances at the 2023 Festival Internationale Neue Drama (FIND) were supported by Polnisches Institut Berlin.

This piece was made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts Art Works Program; the Trust for Mutual Understanding; and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project Transitions Program, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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