Working Theater to Host Poland's Teatr ZAR

The Charlestown Working Theater will host Poland's renown Teatr ZAR this month, as one of two stops on the international troupe's visit to the United States. (The San Francisco International Art Festival is the other stop on its tour.)

ZAR will perform "Caesarian Section," the first in the company's performance triptych "The Gospels of Childhood."

Teatr ZAR is a multinational group based in the Grotowski Institute, Wroclaw, Poland. The company's performances are part of a much longer process of research, expeditions, personal explorations, and transformation. The musical structure of this performance was developed from a base of polyphonic Corsican songs, through which Bulgarian, Icelandic, and Chechen songs have been woven, according to a press release from the Working Theater.

Death, mourning, suicide, ritual and resurrection are essential themes in Teatr ZAR's work. The group represents one of the most interesting trends in contemporary Polish theatre, described as 'theatre out of the spirit of music'.

Performances run from May 29 to June 1 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25. For info and tickets, visit www.charlestownworkingtheater.org or call 866-811-4111.