Krystian Lupa's success on the world stage progresses unhindered. A few months ago, he was awarded the European Theatre Award, his Zarathustra was a hit in Moscow, he was given the Grand Prix in the Polish showcase "Divine Comedy," his plays were issued on DVD (Kalwerk and Immanuel Kant), and now he will be a guest at one of the most famous theatre festivals; the Lincoln Center Festival in New York.
Kalwerk (produced by the Stary Theatre in Krakow in 1992 and revived in 2003) will be the first Polish play ever featured during this prestigious festival. The play, staring Krzysztof Hadziaka and Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik is an adaptation of a story by Thomas Bernhard about a psychotic relationship between a scientist possesed by the vision of creating a study about hearing and his crippled wife. The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is part of a larger complex of cultural uinstitutions on New York's Upper West Side. Beyond the LCPA, there are 11 other cultural and educational institutions there; amongst them the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, The Juilliard School, the New York City Ballet, and The New York City Opera. The center is where Americans are introduced to the best in world theatre, opera, dance and music. The summer festival is only one of many organized by the Lincoln Center. Yearly, there are about 400 performances featured here. Lupa's K