Lem vs P.K. Dick
Tickets and description:
We are in space, as evidenced by the freely scattered pieces of meteorites. Time stops, or rather begins to flow in a completely different way, as evidenced by the distorted sounds of the famous ‘Never Ending Story’. When Limahl finishes singing his melancholic song, we are confronted by two giants of literature: Stanislaw Lem and Philip K. Dick. They will begin to talk, and we will witness one of the most passionate encounters in the history of science fiction that never happened.
Who actually meets here? Two men, two eminent writers, an Eastern man with a Western man, or perhaps two personae that are emanations of everything imagined, written, thought about them?
Thanks to the bravura performances of Tomasz Schuchardt and Jan Jurkowski, they become all these characters at once. Both actors play the literary giants with extraordinary sensitivity and empathy, focusing above all on their inner selves and the relationship that unexpectedly builds up between them. Did it really happen? Or is it just the vision of Mateusz Pakuła, author of the drama and director, who guides his characters in such a way that we unconditionally follow their story?
In the performance ‘Lem vs. P.K. Dick’, the finite story of the correspondence between the two science-fiction writers expands into an endless tale of human unfulfillment. Through the magic of theatre, we can embark on this journey with them.
