INTERNATIONAL MIME FESTIVAL –Thessaloniki
Contemporary Visual Theatre
Thessaloniki Concert Hall – 2^nd, 10^th, 22^nd October and 7^th November 2015

Moni Lazariston Festival, in cooperation with Inter Show Productions and Thessaloniki's Concert Hall create a new institution in the city, the first International Mime Festival, a short form of special performing arts festival.

Some of the most impressive and completely original performances abroad, where words replaced by expression, will be presented in Megaron stages.

Body, music, effects, and all the modern techniques of physical theater and circus are combined to produce new forms of theatrical expression. Here, the words are aside and give their position to a different kind of "speech", which is expected to fascinate and excite the audience of Thessaloniki...

For the first event were selected four excellent performances from Europe, but also from distant Japan, which will carve a unique journey in human expression and give an overall great experience to those who attend!

Friday, 2nd of October
Teatr Formy | “Only you” (Poland)
Venue Aimilios Riades Μ2 – 21:00
Ticket prices: Α' Zone 18€, Β' Zone 15€, 12€ (pupils, students, unemployment card holders)
Tickets: http://www.ticketservices.gr/el/events/?eventid=1647&showid=14257 

The theatre has existed since 1996 (former name the Contemporary Pantomime Theatre); was founded and managed by Józef Markocki with a group of professional actors. Having worked out its own artistic language the theatre draws inspiration from the Polish school of group mime, created by Henryk Tomaszewski, as well as Jerzy Grotowski.

The Theatre has its own unique style and form. It uses different movement forms from classical mime to classical and modern dance to drama theatre. The group has produced several spectacles, which are staged in theatres in Poland and abroad, such as "Alternations of Space", "The Sacred Spot", "The Mystery of Bread and Stone", "Battle of Carnival and Lent", "HomoSensibilis", "Babel", "Only you", "The Hunger"...

Form Theatre already played in countries like: Japan, Italy, France, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Greorgia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary.

www.pantomima.pl

Performance “Only You”

"Action of the performance starts in early 30'ies Poland. The plot runs through the period of a little less than 60 years. Some of the events shown in this story are a fogged dream...this story is a fogged dream, which came back from the time of my childhood, ...it is an account of a hard, sometime absurd, but possible love.".

Teatr Formy | “Only you”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-pTFYKADWY

With the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland

Directing and music arrangement
Józef Markocki

Cast
Ewelina Ciszewska, Józef Markocki, Grzegorz Szymczyk

Stage set up
Ewelina Ciszewska

Puppet design and manufacturing
Bronislaw Trytko

Music
"Four Seasons" A. Vivaldi

Music performance
String quartet Pro Musica 

Accordion & sound
Krzysztof Borowicz

Cast
Ewelina Ciszewska, Józef Markocki,
Grzegorz Szymczyk

Stage set up
Ewelina Ciszewska

Puppet design and manufacturing
Bronislaw Trytko

Music
"Four Seasons" A. Vivaldi

Music performance
string quartet Pro Musica

Accordion & sound
Krzysztof Borowicz