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It&#8217;s a Lecoq-based performance in which the poetry of Wislawa Szymborska, the Polish Nobel Prize-winner, is rendered in physical theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8222;This Is Why We Live&#8221; is a work of movement, poetry-theatre and live music. Using physical theater, clowning, and an original score by cellist Dobrochna Zubek, two actors and a musician journey through the ironic and astonishing poetry of one of the great voices of the 20th century. Szymborska\u2019s poems are performed in English, French and Polish. Projected English surtitles are provided for the Polish and French language texts. The work is directed by Coleen Shirin MacPherson, Artistic Director of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openheartsurgerytheatre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Open Heart Surgery Theatre<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong>&nbsp;and has previously been performed in Paris, Toronto and Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wislawa Szymborska<\/strong>&nbsp;(1923-2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her body of work was only 325 poem\u2014four or five poems annually\u2014and demonstrated the wonder of putting so much lightness and seriousness, tact and sensitivity, simplicity of imagery and complexity of philosophical contemplation into so few words. Irony and self-irony, wit, humor and playfulness are the hallmarks of her poetry and her personality. She sent cards with quirky collages (instead of letters), organized lotteries with small, delightfully kitschy prizes, and wrote amusing limericks. The fact that she called her Nobel Prize \u201ca Stockholm tragedy\u201d says much about her self-deprecatory humor. Her playfulness and wit are celebrated in this performance piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8222;This Is Why We Live&#8221; was devised by its all-female ensemble using improvisation and the movement-based theater techniques of \u00c9cole Jacques Lecoq, a Paris-based school that specializes in applying movement dynamics to theater creation. The creative challenge was to find movement within Szymborska&#8217;s poetry and to transpose it to the stage without losing the poems&#8217; emotional integrity and intimacy. Original poems and translations by Szymborska were investigated through improvisation, and her collages were hung in the rehearsal room. The play emerged from these explorations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The piece was originally a co-production with Th\u00e9atre de L\u2019Enfumeraie in France and supported with a residency in London, UK at Old Vic New Voices. 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