Łukasz Twarkowski, Poland’s hottest theatre-maker, presents Quanta, the first part of his trilogy about science. Against the backdrop of two world wars, he shows how quantum physics revolutionized our perception of reality. Twarkowski focuses on the human stories of scientists like Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Einstein, and Bohr, connecting their conflicts to our contemporary search for truth.
Questa foto come quella della copertina è di D. Matvejev
Quanta takes the audience back to 1938, to a remote hotel in the Swiss Alps. Among the guests is Werner Heisenberg, discoverer of the uncertainty principle. Space and time begin to distort, as memories and biographies intertwine. The world seems to lose its framework, and the audience is drawn into a mosaic of interconnected stories and events.
“When we examine the quantum discoveries, we find an entirely new universe opening to us, one mostly based on probability. Such notions as the uncertainty principle and superposition may most probably grasp the complexity of our lives more accurately, at the same time liberating us from the Newtonian conviction that we will be able to control reality through calculations,” says Twarkowski about his source of inspiration.
Twarkowski’s visual and narrative talent is further amplified by collaborations with set designer Fabien Leden, costume designer Svenja Gassen, choreographer Paweł Sakowicz, composer Lubomir Grzelak, and video artist Jakub Lech. The result is a spectacular and immersive theatrical experience where the boundaries between reality and imagination blur. Prepare for an intriguing journey through science, philosophy, and the human drive for understanding where nothing is as it seems.
*The term “quantum” (pl. quanta) means the smallest possible, further indivisible amount: it denotes the very foundations of all material existence. The human life consists of quanta of events; they create meaning only when in a sequence — only within the framework of time and space can we understand our lives as comprehensive stories. But what happens when even the most fundamental quantities cease to play by the rules as we’re used to?
Národní divadlo Brno
20. 5. / 7.00 p.m. / 190 min, with intermission Janáček Theatre
