About Program Each perception of things that is not strange is false - Paul Valery Telquel (Choses tues)
The Fragrance of Time is a poetic theatrical impression bearing reference to the world of childhood and inspired by the works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hugo Claus and Emil Zegadlowicz, as well as the personal experience of the author and director of the production. Many colourful, at times dreadful and at times amusing characters and situations typical of a Polish small town from the 1920s and 1930s are presented here. However, all in all it is a universal tale about childhood, adolescence, fear and cruelty, as well as love. The show contains no text but there is Peter Tchaikovsky’s music, some of it played live by the actors on harmonicas. In the set there are also large mobile objects and the show makes use of fire, pyrotechnics and stilts. The show has been presented in many cities in Poland as well as in Brasil, France, Germany, Holland, Iran, Italy, Mexico, South Korea, Tunisia and Ukraine.
About Team The KTO Theatre was established in 1977 in Krakow(Poland). It’s first production was “The Garden of Delight”. Its first ten performances, closed to the general public, were attended by just a few hundred people. A year later, after being censored, this grew to nearly three thousand people in Krakow and other Polish cities. The statistics look considerably different now, In the company’s 43rd year of operation: over 40 productions (60 in fact, if we also count the shows prepared for special occasions) performed indoors and outdoors in Poland and around the world have been attended by over 2.5 million people. The group has visited nearly 250 cities in over 40 countries on 5 continents. It has made over 200 overseas trips, visiting Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Tunisia, Iran, the USA, South Korea and almost all the countries in Europe. It has taken part in prestigious festivals in Seoul, Bogota, New York, St Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Tirana, Edinburgh, Minsk and Kiev.
Director: Jerzy Zon Performers: Karolina Kami？ska, Monika Kozłowska/Paulina Kowalik, Paulina Lasyk, Justyna Orzechowska/Aleksandra Deka, Danuta R？？ycka/Urszula Swałtek-Sok？ł, Gra？yna Srebrny-Rosa, Barbara Wysocza？ska, Marta Zo？, Sławomir Bendykowski, Bartek Cieniawa/Jacek Joniec, Marek Gierat/Krzysztof Tyszko, Grzegorz Grochal, Tytus Grochal, Aleksander Kopa？ski, Michał Orzyłowski, Adam Plewi？ski, Karol ？miałek Staff: Andrzej Czop, Robert Kania