{"id":105,"date":"2017-07-11T13:14:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T11:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2021-09-15T11:26:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T09:26:47","slug":"aj-waj-czyli-historie-z-cynamonem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/index.php\/spektakle\/aj-waj-czyli-historie-z-cynamonem\/","title":{"rendered":"Aj waj! czyli historie z cynamonem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p><strong>Sk\u0142ad aktorski:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Katarzyna Chlebny\/ Marta Bizo\u0144 \/ Kamila Klimczak<\/li>\n<li>Karol Wolski \/ Marcin Kobierski<\/li>\n<li>Tadeusz Kwinta \/ Kajetan Wolniewicz<\/li>\n<li>Andrzej R\u00f3g \/ Tadeusz Zi\u0119ba<\/li>\n<li>Albert Py\u015bk \/ Jacek Stefanik<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Scenariusz i re\u017cyseria: <\/strong>Rafa\u0142 Kmita<\/p>\n<p><strong>Muzyka: <\/strong>Boles\u0142aw Rawski<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scenografia: <\/strong>El\u017cbieta W\u00f3jtowicz-Gularowska<\/p>\n<p><strong>Choreografia: <\/strong>Jaros\u0142aw Staniek<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dotychczasowa ilo\u015b\u0107 przedstawie\u0144: <\/strong>330<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/images\/grk-plakat-ajwaj.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160403023916im_\/http:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/images\/ajwaj-plm.jpg\" alt=\"Do\u015b\u0107!\" width=\"162\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160403023916im_\/http:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/images\/Plakat-Ajwajlodz-maly.jpg\" alt=\"Do\u015b\u0107!\" width=\"162\" height=\"232\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201eAj waj! czyli historie z cynamonem\u201d to na po\u0142y kabaretowy na po\u0142y teatralny spektakl osnuty na motywach kultury \u017cydowskiej.<\/p>\n<p>Na jaki\u015b stary, dawno ju\u017c nieodwiedzany strych wchodzi grupka aktor\u00f3w, kt\u00f3rzy z porzuconych przed laty przedmiot\u00f3w \u2013 po\u017c\u00f3\u0142k\u0142ych gazet, ksi\u0105\u017cek, s\u0142oik\u00f3w, nakry\u0107 g\u0142owy \u2013 wyczarowuj\u0105 raz \u015bpiewane, to znowu m\u00f3wione opowie\u015bci. Piosenki przeplataj\u0105 si\u0119 z komicznymi scenkami i monologami.<\/p>\n<p>Dziennik \u201eRzeczpospolita\u201d uzna\u0142 \u201eAj waj! czyli historie z cynamonem\u201d za jeden z czterech najlepszych spektakli teatralnych 2005 roku, natomiast tygodnik \u201ePrzegl\u0105d\u201d umie\u015bci\u0142 go w dziesi\u0105tce najwa\u017cniejszych wydarze\u0144 teatralnych ubieg\u0142ego sezonu. Ponadto na festiwalu Komedii Talia 2005 \u201eAj waj!\u2026\u201d otrzyma\u0142 nagrody za najlepsz\u0105 inscenizacj\u0119 oraz najlepsz\u0105 muzyk\u0119.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-257 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ajwaj_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ajwaj_2.jpg 580w, https:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ajwaj_2-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u017barty i m\u0105dro\u015bci narodu wybranego<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pe\u0142ne dwie godziny \u017cydowskiego humoru najwy\u017cszej klasy. Po \u201eAj, waj! Czyli historie z cynamonem\u201d widzowie nie chcieli wypu\u015bci\u0107 aktor\u00f3w ze sceny. W repertuarach teatr\u00f3w pr\u00f3\u017cno by szuka\u0107 takiego \u0142adunku humoru i \u017cyciowej m\u0105dro\u015bci. Zabawnej i daj\u0105cej do my\u015blenia. Spektakl \u201eAj, waj! Czyli historie z cynamonem\u201d Rafa\u0142a Kmity spe\u0142nia wszystkie te wymagania. Wystarczy\u0142o si\u0119gn\u0105\u0107 po wielowiekow\u0105 tradycj\u0119 narodu wybranego i do\u015bwiadczenia rabin\u00f3w oraz wrodzon\u0105 pomys\u0142owo\u015b\u0107 pokole\u0144 \u017cydowskich kupc\u00f3w, rzemie\u015blnik\u00f3w, mleczarzy i gospody\u0144 domowych oraz wiecznie zbuntowanych wobec tradycji m\u0142odzie\u0144c\u00f3w. Kmita potrafi\u0142 zaginiony \u015bwiat o\u017cywi\u0107 w teatrze. Zestawi\u0142 z niego seri\u0119 scen, na\u0142adowanych dowcipem. (\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>Na scenie pojawia si\u0119 gama kolorowych typ\u00f3w ludzkich: swat, chc\u0105cy opchn\u0105\u0107 postarza\u0142emu kawalerowi pann\u0119, rabin wyczekuj\u0105cy Mesjasza czy handlarze szukaj\u0105cy naiwnych klient\u00f3w. Kmita \u017carty umiej\u0119tnie oprawi\u0142 puentami, scenki bawi\u0105 nie tylko s\u0142owem, ale i zestawieniem postaci. Tekst uzupe\u0142nia wielobarwna muzyka Boles\u0142awa Rawskiego. Raz pogodna i figlarna, \u017ce a\u017c nogi same nios\u0142y do ta\u0144ca, w innym miejscu melancholijna i nostalgiczna. Dla takiego materia\u0142u Kmita musia\u0142 dobra\u0107 odpowiednich wykonawc\u00f3w. Na scenie wyr\u00f3\u017cnia si\u0119 Sonia Bohosiewicz, niepospolitej urody dorodna blondynka obdarzona temperamentem. To ona nadaje spektaklowi momentami zupe\u0142nie szalone tempo. Kiedy z m\u0119\u017cem przychodzi do rabina, aby si\u0119 rozwie\u015b\u0107, jest istnym wcieleniem diab\u0142a w sp\u00f3dnicy. Jednym tchem wyrzuca, \u017ce jej m\u0105\u017c to niedorajda i jest tak g\u0142upi, \u017ce nawet jak chrapie, to chrapie same g\u0142upoty. Ale ju\u017c w nast\u0119pnej scenie Bohosiewicz tkliwie \u015bpiewa ko\u0142ysank\u0119. Nie ust\u0119puje jej pi\u0105tka aktor\u00f3w z Tadeuszem Kwint\u0105 na czele. Razem dali taki koncert, \u017ce publiczno\u015b\u0107 zmusi\u0142a ich do czterech bis\u00f3w. Znaczy, \u017ce si\u0119 podoba\u0142o.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Tomasz Wysocki \u201eGazeta festiwalowa\u201d Wroc\u0142aw, 18-19 marca 2006<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"yourTubeVideo\">\u00a0<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-258 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ajwaj_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ajwaj_3.jpg 580w, https:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ajwaj_3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u017bywio\u0142 wykwintnego humoru<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Przedstawieniem \u201eAj waj! czyli historie z cynamonem\u201d Grupa Rafa\u0142a Kmity z Krakowa otworzy\u0142a we wtorek V przegl\u0105d Komedie lata\u201d w Teatrze Na Woli. Zrobi\u0142a to w pi\u0119knym stylu, kontynuuj\u0105c najlepsze tradycje polskiego kabaretu literackiego. Wszystko w tym widowisku ma stempel wysokiej jako\u015bci i \u015bwiadczy o przednim poczuciu humoru zespo\u0142u tw\u00f3rc\u00f3w i wykonawc\u00f3w.<\/p>\n<p>Autor i re\u017cyser Rafa\u0142 Kmita ma niezwykle czu\u0142e ucho na brzmienie \u017cydowskich szmonces\u00f3w, skeczy czy piosenek. Wr\u0119cz wyczuwa\u0142o si\u0119 rado\u015b\u0107, jak\u0105 odnajdywa\u0142 w ich pastiszu. Wspiera\u0142 go znakomitymi kompozycjami Boles\u0142aw Rawski. Mimo nostalgii za minionymi czasami spektakl by\u0142 wolny od sentymentalizmu i martyrologii.<\/p>\n<p>Kabaretowe z ducha numery opracowane zosta\u0142y z wielk\u0105 trosk\u0105 o s\u0142owo. Dowcipy puentowa\u0142y ka\u017cde wydarzenie po wielekro\u0107. Towarzyszy\u0142y im niezwykle pomys\u0142y inscenizacyjne, z popisowym numerem z butelkami i innymi przedmiotami codziennego u\u017cytku, kt\u00f3re imitowa\u0142y instrumenty muzyczne. Wdzi\u0119k i polot pi\u0105tki wykonawc\u00f3w godzien jest osobnych analiz. Pe\u0142na ekspresji Sonia Bohosiewicz bawi\u0142a jako typowa mame, to zn\u00f3w ma\u0142\u017conka ch\u0119tna do rozwodu czy panienka lekkich obyczaj\u00f3w. Urok osobisty i wokalno-taneczne usposobienie Tadeusza Kwinty czyni\u0142y go wiarygodnym tate, krawcem, swatem i rabinem, rozstrzygaj\u0105cym swary mi\u0119dzy ma\u0142\u017conkami. Andrzej R\u00f3g popisow\u0105 piosenk\u0119 o zahukanym m\u0119\u017cu, kt\u00f3ry rusza sprzeda\u0107 koz\u0119, gdy wtem: \u201estoi karczma \u2013 no to wchodz\u0119\u201d, zachowa\u0142 na bisy. Marcin Kobierski \u015bpiewa\u0142 z uczuciem o kobiecie idealnej, kt\u00f3rej jedyn\u0105 wad\u0105 by\u0142o to, \u017ce istnia\u0142a tylko we \u015bnie. Takie przedstawienie te\u017c si\u0119 mog\u0142o jedynie przy\u015bni\u0107, ale ma t\u0119 zalet\u0119, \u017ce b\u0119dzie jeszcze do obejrzenia. Do czego ka\u017cdego namawiam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Janusz R. Kowalczyk, \u201eRzeczpospolita\u201d, 6-7 sierpnia 2005<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160403023916im_\/http:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/images\/ajwaj_3.jpg\" alt=\"Aj waj! czyli historie z cynamonem\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 Kultura\u0142ki<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(\u2026) A mo\u017ce uda\u0107 si\u0119 na urlop ze spektaklem \u201eAj waj!, czyli historie z cynamonem\u201d w pami\u0119ci, co go Rafa\u0142 Kmita w Teatrze STU wystawi\u0142. Przez sto minut bawi\u0142em si\u0119 w wype\u0142nionej szczelnie sali STU podawanym z wdzi\u0119kiem humorem \u2013 sytuacyjnym, s\u0142ownym, muzycznym; raz jeszcze Tadeusz Kwinta pokaza\u0142 sw\u0105 klas\u0119, raz jeszcze I Andrzej R\u00f3g dowi\u00f3d\u0142 swego talentu i edukacyjnej si\u0142y Studia Aktorskiego, jakie kiedy\u015b dzia\u0142a\u0142o przy STU, raz jeszcze Sonia Bohosiewicz potwierdzi\u0142a, \u017ce nie przypadkowo tak \u015bwietnie wypad\u0142a, graj\u0105c blisko sze\u015b\u0107 lat temu obok Anny Polony, swej pani profesor z PWST, w \u201eTw\u00f3rcach obraz\u00f3w\u201d. Dobrze, \u017ce ma tego Kmit\u0119\u2026 A on \u2013 pokaza\u0142 literacki smak, poczucie humoru i fenomenaln\u0105 zdolno\u015b\u0107, jak na cz\u0142owieka, kt\u00f3ry wyszed\u0142 z kabaretu, przysta\u0142o, puentowania scen. Niekt\u00f3re puenty a\u017c gin\u0105 \u2013 przykryte zwielokrotnionym \u015bmiechem; a tu po trzeciej i czwart\u0105 rozrzutnie dopisa\u0142 autor i re\u017cyser zarazem. Re\u017cyser, kt\u00f3ry poprowadzi\u0142 spektakl w znakomitym rytmie, na ,,zak\u0142adk\u0119\u201d, bez zb\u0119dnych pauz. Bez modnych szar\u017c. Zachwyca\u0142 si\u0119 ju\u017c spektaklem Kmity Pawe\u0142 G\u0142owacki, ale on musia\u0142 o swoim Marguezie napomkn\u0105\u0107 (on ma cholera, lepsze, obsesje\u2026), zatem ju\u017c mu si\u0119 nie napisa\u0142o o muzyce, jak\u0105 ofiarowa\u0142 Kmicie do spektaklu Boles\u0142aw Rawski. Kompozytor od lat tworz\u0105cy w Krakowie, a zarazem pozostaj\u0105cy w cieniu innych. Wielkich. Nie wiem, jak Mistrz Zygmunt Konieczny odebra\u0142 te muzyczne frazy, ja by\u0142em wielce ukontentowany (G\u0142owacki te\u017c, a nie napisa\u0142.) Nie wiem, bo bodaj nikt wie, czy b\u0119d\u0105 w tym roku og\u0142oszone nominacje do statuetek Ludwika \u2013 w kategorii muzyka by\u0142by Rawski jednym z pewnych kandydat\u00f3w!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Wac\u0142aw Krupi\u0144ski, \u201eDziennik Polski\u201d, 4 czerwca 2005<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-269\" src=\"http:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ajwaj2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ajwaj2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ajwaj2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ajwaj2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Zabawny i nostalgiczny spektakl Rafa\u0142a Kmity w Teatrze STU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>W starym pudle drzemie ca\u0142y \u015bwiat. \u015bpi w nim zamkni\u0119ty krawiec, co chcia\u0142 szy\u0107 marzenia i jego pomocnicy, kr\u0119c\u0105cy si\u0119 w miejscu swoich my\u015bli. Ca\u0142y \u015bwiat si\u0119 obudzi, gdy podniesie si\u0119 wieko skrzyni, a mi\u0142osierna r\u0119ka stworzyciela nakr\u0119ci zu\u017cyty mechanizm. Zn\u00f3w rozlegnie si\u0119 stara, zapomniana melodia, wr\u00f3ci \u015bmieszny \u017cart przywracaj\u0105cy porz\u0105dek rzeczy.<\/p>\n<p>Spektakl \u201eAj waj! czyli historie z cynamonem\u201d Rafa\u0142a Kmity przypomina star\u0105 pozytywk\u0119. Nakr\u0119cony sprawn\u0105 r\u0119k\u0105 re\u017cysera, podszyty d\u017awi\u0119kami, co je kompozytor Boles\u0142aw Rawski pi\u0119knie u\u0142o\u017cy\u0142, budzi u\u015bpiony w zakamarkach pami\u0119ci \u017cydowski skrawek \u015bwiata, w kt\u00f3rym ciasteczka z cynamonem smakuj\u0105 jak proustowska magdalenka.<\/p>\n<p>Stara pozytywka o\u017cywa na strychu pami\u0119ci, na kt\u00f3ry wchodz\u0105 przez otw\u00f3r w pod\u0142odze aktorzy. Delikatnie bior\u0105 do r\u0105k zapomniane przedmioty, jakie\u015b porzucone kapelusze, jakie\u015b garnki, kt\u00f3re czasy swej \u015bwietno\u015bci maj\u0105 dawno ju\u017c za sob\u0105. To one przywo\u0142uj\u0105 w nich wspomnienia, prowokuj\u0105 do \u015bpiewu, b\u0105d\u017a te\u017c do opowiedzenia zabawnej historii, jak ta ze zbuntowanym synem i broni\u0105cym tradycji ojcem (doskona\u0142y Andrzej R\u00f3g, kt\u00f3ry rzeczywi\u015bcie wygl\u0105da jak wszystkie nieszcz\u0119\u015bcia \u017byd\u00f3w-tu\u0142aczy razem wzi\u0119te).<\/p>\n<p>Za chwil\u0119 niemal rozp\u0142aczemy si\u0119 ze \u015bmiechu, gdy zacieraj\u0105cy r\u0119ce swat (Tadeusz Kwinta) b\u0119dzie stara\u0142 si\u0119 wyda\u0107 za m\u0105\u017c wszystkie mo\u017cliwe \u2013 brzydule, pijaczki i staruszki w miasteczku. I wtedy, gdy jako pobo\u017cny, czekaj\u0105cy na Mesjasza rabin, b\u0119dzie wys\u0142uchiwa\u0142 sk\u0142\u00f3conych ma\u0142\u017conk\u00f3w \u2013 Andrzeja Roga i Soni Bohosiewicz. Ta jedyna kobieta w przedstawieniu (graj\u0105 na zmian\u0119 z Mart\u0105 Bizon) wnosi ze sob\u0105 tak\u0105 \u017cywio\u0142owo\u015b\u0107 i energi\u0119, wobec kt\u00f3rej nikt nie mo\u017ce zosta\u0107 oboj\u0119tny, Aktorka potrafi jednak zmienia\u0107 nastroje i od radosnej zabawy przej\u015b\u0107 p\u0142ynnie do wzruszaj\u0105cej ko\u0142ysanki, kt\u00f3r\u0105 \u017cydowska matka \u015bpiewa swojemu synkowi, przepowiadaj\u0105c mu ci\u0119\u017cki los odmie\u0144ca.<\/p>\n<p>I to jest najciekawsze w przedstawieniu Rafa\u0142a Kmity, kt\u00f3ry wie, \u017ce ka\u017cdy, nawet naj\u015bmieszniejszy \u017cart \u017cydowski jest podszyty smutkiem, pewnym rodzajem melancholii drzemi\u0105cej w rozrzuconym po \u015bwiecie narodzie. Dlatego sw\u00f3j rozp\u0119dzony, kabaretowy mechanizm potrafi powstrzyma\u0107 odpowiednim momencie, dorzuci\u0107 do niego liryczn\u0105 nutk\u0119, zmieni\u0107 rytm zapomnianej na strychu pozytywki, w kt\u00f3rej stary krawiec szyje swoje marzenia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Magda Huzarska, \u201eGazeta Krakowska\u201d 21 czerwca 2005<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Polish actors reenact the shtetl better than any Jew<\/h3>\n<h4>Krakow cabaret proves that small-town Jewish life is great material for theater.<\/h4>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160403023916\/http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/misc\/writers\/michael-handelzalts-1.470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\">Michael Handelzalts<\/a> |\u00a0Jun.25, 2013<\/div>\n<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td id=\"fbtd\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"innerArticle\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Members of the cast of &quot;Oy Vay, or Stories with Cinnamon\u201d.\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160403023916im_\/http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.531951.1372227528%21\/image\/2610230639.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_640\/2610230639.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the cast of &quot;Oy Vay, or Stories with Cinnamon\u201d.\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Members of the cast of\u00a0 \u201aOy Vay, or Stories with Cinnamon.\u2019\u00a0Photo by Jacek Wrzesinski<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"articleContentAndWidgetsContainer\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160403023916\/http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/culture\/arts-leisure\/polish-actors-reenact-the-shtetl-better-than-any-jew.premium-1.531947#article_comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THIS STORY IS BY<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michael Handelzalts<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Michael Handelzalts\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160403023916im_\/http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.428958.1336466307%21\/image\/3900007744.png_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_49x41\/3900007744.png\" alt=\"Michael Handelzalts\" width=\"49\" height=\"41\" \/>On a recent visit to Poland I hadn\u2019t really intended to go to the theater. But as I was on my way to my hotel in Krakow I passed by a small theater called STU. If it weren\u2019t for a poster, I wouldn\u2019t have noticed that the residential-looking building had a theater inside. The title on the poster \u2013 \u201eOy Vay, or Stories with Cinnamon\u201d \u2013 made clear what I would be doing that evening, though not without some trepidation.<\/div>\n<div>I will try to explain. I am indeed Polish (that is, I was born in Poland), and I do not agree with the common Israeli opinion that the Poles bear \u2013 and will forever bear \u2013 responsibility for the terrible fate of Poland\u2019s Jews during World War II (including my parents\u2019 entire families).<\/div>\n<div>On all my visits to Poland, and certainly in recent years, I have formed the impression \u2013 without ignoring the blood-soaked Polish-Jewish history of the mid-20th century \u2013 that the country is trying to deal with the past courageously. In fact, in Poland there is a great deal of love for everything Jewish, perhaps even enchantment. There is nostalgia for the Jewish part of Polish culture that disappeared with the departure of the remaining Polish Jews.<\/div>\n<div>In any case, the title of the play hinted that it focuses on small-town Jewish life and culture, something of the world that was destroyed in the Holocaust. I felt some anxiety that attempts by Polish actors in a Polish theater to bring these characters to life could be received by a Polish audience as a caricature, distorted one way or another, of the Jewish world that no longer exists. It could even border on anti-Semitism.<\/div>\n<div>The ticket cost 70 zlotys (about NIS 77) and granted the spectator entry to an intimate auditorium with a thrust stage and seating for about 250. The columns on each side of the stage were very reminiscent of Jerusalem\u2019s Khan Theater.<\/div>\n<div>The audience consisted mainly of teenagers and young adults. Onstage were a jumble of objects and furniture, and a trapdoor gaped in the stage. From it emerged four men (trousers, black vests, white shirts) and a woman. I don\u2019t know if the young Polish audience got this; for me the context of Jews emerging from a hiding place was unambiguous.<\/div>\n<div>When the stage lights came on, after a brief musical overture (klezmer, of course, a clarinet, of course), one actor showed the audience a shtreimel \u2013 the large fur hat worn by Hasidic Jews. \u201cThe Jews always wear a head-covering, and this isn\u2019t just any head-covering,\u201d he said. \u201eThis is the head-covering of the righteous man. And the righteous man is capable of working miracles and even curing the ill.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>The lighting revealed the young woman sprawled as if having fainted. The young man waved the shtreimel above her and she righted herself for a moment and then dropped back down. \u201cThe sick people die again afterwards, but they die a lot healthier,\u201d the man said.<\/div>\n<div>And thus the explanation of the black hat develops into a heated debate. On one side is the son wearing a skullcap who is oppressed by the narrow confines of Jewish life. On the other is the father who wears a peaked cap and speaks in the name of the values of Jewish tradition and religion.<\/div>\n<div>Each complains about the other to the wife and mother who is backstage. The son questions why it is forbidden to eat pork and the father, who is certain he has a good answer, declares \u201cbecause that\u2019s how it is.\u201d The son complains about the way the Jews claim to be the chosen people when there are no doubt other equally worthy peoples.<\/div>\n<div>He argues to his father that maybe the Jews have given a lot to the world but for example they didn\u2019t invent the tango or tap dancing. Here the father rallies: Shmuel the tailor had 10 children and only one toilet, and the 10 children who had to hold it in invented tap-dancing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Plenty of klezmer<\/strong><br \/>\nAt this stage the suspicious spectator (as distinct from the local Polish audience) realizes what\u2019s nice about this play \u2013 largely skits and songs based on what\u2019s known in Polish stage jargon as\u00a0<em>szmonces\u00a0<\/em>(<em>shmontzes<\/em>), routines of Jewish humor and popular wisdom The nice thing is that no one\u2019s laughing at Jews but with them. Actually, not really with them, because so few Jews are left in Poland. But this show convinces with its affectionate, if not loving, attitude toward the Jewish world that knows how to laugh at itself and enjoys doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, this performance is also a cabaret. Jacek Stefanik takes a bottle and two glasses out of the cupboard. He pulls the cork and the clarinet bursts into a series of klezmer trills. He puts the cork back in, pulls it out again and the music erupts anew.<br \/>\nMarcin Kobierski takes a second bottle out of the cupboard and out from under the cork erupts a second clarinet, even wilder than the first. Andrzej Rog takes a jar, and from under its cap bursts a trombone. Marta Bizon comes on stage with a fan, whose every flutter emits the sound of an accordion.<br \/>\nGradually a scene of Jews with props becomes a musical celebration of a traditional-modern Jewish sound. It\u2019s an imaginative dance with bottles and a lovely picture of life. This play has clear entertainment value but doesn\u2019t hesitate to be sentimental; for example, when a mother sings to her baby, or in a song about the dream of Mendel the tailor.<br \/>\nDirector, skit writer and troupe manager Rafal Kmita has run his cabaret for some 20 years now. \u201eOy Vay, Stories with Cinnamon\u201d was first performed in 2005, when it won the prize for Polish cabaret. It has been performed throughout Poland more than 300 times (the theater in Krakow is one of its home bases). The cabaret has even performed the show with great success in France in front of a French, not Polish, audience, with captions. A recording of the songs, with original music by Boleslaw Rawski, has been a big seller.<br \/>\nWhen I tried to explain to myself the secret of success of this production with an audience that has no special interest in the topic (as I do) \u2013 apart from the good-spirited magic of the Jewish material itself \u2013 I concluded it was because this company, both as individuals and a group, has an infectious energy.<br \/>\nToward the end, when the very Jewish music had taken on rhythms of contemporary dance club music, with bits of rap and hip hop, the encores began, with each actor doing an individual number. Outstanding was the song sung by Zelda-Rachel, the Jewish prostitute who offers her best wares to her Jewish clients, at a price anybody \u2013 and any body \u2013 can afford. At this stage the audience was applauding as if possessed by a dybbuk; it sounded like they would sit in that small auditorium all night if only the Jewish tales went on.<br \/>\nIt was amazing \u2013 in Polish of all things, before a Polish audience, performed by non-Jewish actors (as far as I could tell, though toward the end they looked, as the Polish expression has it, \u201clike a hundred Jews\u201d). This \u201cDiaspora\u201d small-town Jewish material, which we in Israel have learned to scorn and shun in the name of Israeliness, provided full human-theatrical enchantment, with the necessary self-irony.<br \/>\nI emerged from this performance in Krakow, Poland, with the feeling that maybe it\u2019s hard to be a Jew (and a Pole and an Israeli), but there are moments when this can be both charming and enjoyable. And somehow it seems odd that during the eight years this production has existed on Poland\u2019s stages, no one has thought to bring it to Israel as a guest performance.<br \/>\nTrue, we\u2019re a difficult audience, but it seems that with Hebrew captions, it\u2019s a production that could convince even Israelis that there\u2019s a certain fun in Judaism. Certainly stage fun.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<em> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michael Handelzalts, \u201eHaAretz\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sk\u0142ad aktorski: Katarzyna Chlebny\/ Marta Bizo\u0144 \/ Kamila Klimczak Karol Wolski \/ Marcin Kobierski Tadeusz Kwinta \/ Kajetan Wolniewicz Andrzej R\u00f3g \/ Tadeusz Zi\u0119ba Albert Py\u015bk \/ Jacek Stefanik Scenariusz i re\u017cyseria: Rafa\u0142 Kmita Muzyka: Boles\u0142aw Rawski Scenografia: El\u017cbieta W\u00f3jtowicz-Gularowska Choreografia: Jaros\u0142aw Staniek Dotychczasowa ilo\u015b\u0107 przedstawie\u0144: 330 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201eAj waj! czyli historie z cynamonem\u201d to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions\/614"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmita.art.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}