Atmospheric evening full of thrills and… ghosts.
MOS Theatre warmly invites you to the staged reading of the classic of Polish literature: Forefather’s Eve part II by Adam Mickiewicz, as a part of this year National Polish Reading event – the Scottish edition organised by Izabela Sokol and Hanna Retecka.
It will be an artistic presentation of the text with costumes, partial scenography, props and music/light/visuals from the FOREFATHER’S EVE II EXCERPTS – DZIADY II FRAGMENTY – a warmly welcomed, full theatre show we presented in 2019 in Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh. This rehearsed reading will be mostly in Polish but with unexpected Scottish accents as we believe that theatre is a tool of a multicultural dialogue.
Title of the drama refers to Dziady, an ancient Slavic ritual which beginning stretch back to pagan times known as the “goat’s feast”. On the Halloween Night a group of peasants with their leader Guslarz are secretly summoning ghosts suffering in purgatory to ensure them the access to heaven. They celebrate the customary feast commemorating the dead, believing their meals, drinks and rituals can bring relief to the summoned souls of the departed. When the deceased come back with the requests and warnings the micro – world of the performance starts to be a striking vision of eerie dialogue between living and the dead which once took place in a night time chapel… The pagan ceremony of banqueting the dead, intermixed with Christians notions, with its folk morality becomes a specific philosophy of life and death and happens to be a universal story about time and eternity.
WHEN?
20.09.2026
WHAT TIME?
19:00
WHERE?
Millar Hall, Edinburgh