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In 1988, shortly before his death, the Polish theatre maker and artist, whose ground-breaking work repeatedly pushed the boundaries between visual arts and theatre, staged the play and also performed in it himself. With the help of his daughter Dorota Krakowska as a guide and videos of the original production rehearsals, The Wooster Group is embarking on an expedition into the past of the European theatrical avantgarde and a search for a lost era \u2014 which is precisely what Kantor and his fellow actors undertook with such virtuosity in \u00bbI Shall Never Return\u00ab. Set somewhere between Ithaca and a Polish inn, this production feels like a bequest from Kantor in which he revisits earlier plays including his first work, \u00bbThe Return of Odysseus\u00ab, in which everything revolves around the central motif of the farewell. In visually stunning and surreal scenes, revenants of past characters appear. Via the story of these characters, who seem to have tumbled out of a silent film, fragments of Kantor\u2019s own biography are repeatedly pieced together \u2014 a biography shaped by loss, war and the constant awareness of transience and death. It is a visionary spectacle, half nightmare, half grotesque, and an impressive example of what Kantor himself called his \u00bbTheatre of Death\u00ab. A theatre of death that The Wooster Group and its performers are now bringing back to life by attempting the reconstruction of the reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">With: Zbigniew Bzymek, Enver Chakartash, Hai-Ting Chinn, Jim Fletcher, Ari Fliakos, Dorota Krakowska (on video), Andrew Maillet, Erin Mullin, Suzzy Roche, Danusia Trevino and Kate Valk<br \/>Dramaturgy: Dorota Krakowska<br \/>Sound and Original Music: Eric Sluyter, Omar Zubair<br \/>Lighting: Jennifer Tipton, Ryan Seelig, David Sexton<br \/>Set: Elizabeth LeCompte<br \/>Video: Robert Wuss, Zbigniew Bzymek<br \/>Additional Video: Yudam Hyung-Seok Jeon, Andrew Maillet, Irfan Brkovic, Wladimiro Woyno<br \/>Multimedia Cueing System Engineering: Wladimiro Woyno, Andrew Maillet<br \/>Costumes: Enver Chakartash<br \/>Stage Manager: Erin Mullin<br \/>Assistant Director: Michaela Murphy,\u00a0Matthew Dipple<br \/>Choir Music Director: Hai-Ting Chinn<br \/>Set Construction and Tour Technical Director: Joseph Silovsky<br \/>Production Manager: Bona Lee<br \/>General Manager: Monika Wunderer<br \/>Producer: Cynthia Hedstrom<br \/>English translations and musical arrangements: The Wooster Group<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"contentTextInner ohneAbstand\">\n<p>Duration: ca. 70 minutes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sponsors\" class=\"performanceSponsor contentTextInner ohneAbstand\">\n<p>Excerpts from the film of \u00bbI Shall Never Return\u00ab courtesy of the filmmaker Andrzej Sapija. \u00bbA PINK CHAIR (In Place of a Fake Antique)\u00ab was co-commissioned by Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, Poland, and the Richard B. 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