The Marriage
Written by Witold Gombrowicz
Directed by Zishan Ugurlu
Presented in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute NY, Jan Kochanowski Powszechny Theater of Radom, and Adam Mickiewicz Institute (IAM)
“Whenever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland there I must commit some indecent act.” said Gombrowicz. Indecent acts at this point of unlimited time and space - in dreamland – reveal themselves with upside-down flags, Hoots fingers and Hooters Girls, a bloody insurrection and a declaration! How language brings things into being, how utterance makes ideas material, and who has the power to dictate reality and truth. Distorted! Destroyed! Dislocated! A nightmare! Inflated! Revolt in a scale!
Written by WITOLD GOMBROWICZ
Translated From the Polish by Louis Iribarne
La MaMa Presents in partnership with
The Polish Cultural Institute in NY
Jan Kochanowski Powszechny Theater of Radom
Adam Mickiewicz Institute (IAM)
DIRECTOR
Zishan Ugurlu
FEATURING
Bill Bowers
Celeste Ciulla
Gardiner Comfort
Annie Hägg
Conor Andrew Hall
Anna Podolak
Alex Scoloveno
Jackson Scott
Oluwaseun “Kayodè” Soyemi
DESIGNERS
Michał Dracz
Krystian Szymczak
Sam Sellers
DRAMATURGS
Alexandra Chasin
Shari Perkins
PRODUCTION/STAGE MANAGER
Dakota Silvey
Producer for "The Marriage": Tomek Smolarski and Małgorzata Potocka
ASSISTANTS
Lillie Schenkel: Assistant to Production / Stage Manager
Samantha Tonn: Assistant to Production / Stage Manager
Lily Taggart: Assistant to Set / Lighting / Costume Designers
Zishan Ugurlu is a resident actress and director at La MaMa Theater and a member of the Great Jones Repertory Company. She has worked extensively as a theater artist in New York and abroad. Zishan has recently directed Medea with Great Jones Repertory Company, drawing attention to a very specific dimension that explored Medea as an immigrant, exiled, investigating parallels between the myth and the current refugee crisis by collaging real stories, ancient tongues, and hackable audiovisual systems. Her directing credits include Fragments, Lists, and Lacunae, written by Alexandra Chasin, featuring philosopher Judith Butler as a performer at New York Live Arts. The Franca Rame Project by Franca Rame & Dario Fo, Agamemnon by Aeschylus (in Greek), and She Talks to Beethoven by Adrienne Kennedy. She recently received the 2020 Gramsci Award for Theater in Prison. She teaches at Lang College, The New School University, as a Professor of Theater.