Auditions for A couple of poor English-speaking Poles by Dorota Maslowska are being held on Sunday 29th November 2009 at 2.30 and Tuesday 8th December 2009 7.30 at Progress Theatre.
Director Joanna Rogowska (left) first saw this play performed at the Soho Theatre in 2008 in its original translation as A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians, set in Poland. She loved the play but non-Polish friends who saw it didn’t enjoy it as much and didn’t get many of the references to Polish culture and history. When Joanna decided she would like to direct the play at Progress she contacted the publishers and they pointed her towards an American working on a new translation. Joanna then worked with the translator and transferred the plot from Poland to England.
Before moving to England four years ago Joanna had been involved in theatre productions at university in Poland. When she moved to Reading she joined Progress Theatre and has directed some short plays in WriteFests at Progress. She appeared on stage in the most recent one playing a crazy director intent on making the simplest on-stage action completely ludicrous. She says she ‘hopes’ she is not really like that!
Joanna’s aim in producing this play is that it will be of interest to the large Polish community as well as having wider appeal to the general Reading public.
For more information about the play and the auditions see www.progresstheatre.co.uk
Coming up …
The next production at Progress is Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. 26th November to 5th December 2009.
Auditions for Intimate Exchanges by Alan Ayckbourn Sunday 6th December 2009 1.30pm-4.00pm and Wednesday 9th December 2009 7.30-10.00 both at Progress Theatre.
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