Catch me, touch me was a physical theater based on Halina Poświatowska’s poem An Advertising Ploy. Cooperation with Turkish actors has given very interesting results. This cooperation and observing how polish poetry resonated with different culture and mentality allowed me to realize that in theater we should look for non-obviously international connections. We found tension between routine and perversion and on this base we created the story of relationship, using only actors’ bodies, music and voice recordings:
the world has gotten me down
everything is old
and nihil novi
under the round shining one
brought you by the letter k: knowledge
— all of you go study the encyclopedia –
now i just want to lie flat
and kiss the uneven fingernails
of your sticky and dirty hand
— all of you go study the encyclopedia —
ladies and gentlemen married women
the encyclopedia instructs
the encyclopedia explains
the encyclopedia entertains
you can win a car in a giveaway
or an espresso
I want to sleep
on your naked hard shoulder
to fall deep — in there
where a brown ape
comes down from a swaying branch
becomes erect…
by effort by labor
— all of you go study the encyclopedia —
clamp down your teeth harder
on my left shoulder
rip off the skin — it hinders
our taut muscles
from braiding — into the intertwined
people
— all of you go study the encyclopedia —
