A crime story that is meant to entertain. A Reader who slips into the very story she is following. Awkward situations and characters full of flaws.
In his production "Open Your Eyes", Igor Gorzkowski draws inspiration from two short stories by Olga Tokarczyk from the 2001 collection "Playing on Many Drums": "Open Your Eyes, You’re Already Dead" and "Dress Rehearsal".
"In the first story the protagonist is a passionate reader; she devours crime novels. Why crime novels? Because, as she says, she is looking for some kind of order in a chaotic world," explains Gorzkowski. "And the crime genre really is a form in which a crime takes place. We are given clues that allow us to uncover the mystery of who committed it," he adds.
In the book the crime takes a long time to happen, the Reader grows impatient and… steps into the world she is reading about.
"Here we have a device that may be more familiar from cinema than from theatre: we have a world in which the heroine from a realistic setting crosses into this stylised, fictional reality in search of sensations that are missing from her life," says Gorzkowski.
