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set design and lighting: Bert Neumann
costume designer: Nina von Mechow
light consulting: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
camera: Adrian Hutyriak
dramaturg: Szymon Wróblewski

cast: Aleksandra Konieczna, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Piotr Głowacki, Tomasz Tyndyk

René Pollesch - a director famous for his personal, very individual theatrical language - together with four actors of TR Warszawa (Aleksandra Konieczna, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Piotr Głowacki and Tomasz Tyndyk) works on a performance intended to be a Polish theatrical statement built with the use of means specific for his style. The premiere of RAGAZZO DELL'EUROPA will be on May 26th 2007.

The performance in TR Warszawa will be the first Pollesch's theatrical realization in Poland. So far he gave in Poland only two guest performances; one of them - Hallo Hotel...! created in Burgtheater in Vienna - was presented in TR Warszawa in April 2006.

The premiere of RAGAZZO DELL'EUROPA will be accompanied by the publication of three Pollesch's dramas - Cappuccetto Rosso, Pablo in the Plus and Hallo Hotel...! - in the book series NOWA DRAMATURGIA TR.

René Pollesch - born in Friedberg, Hesse, in 1962. 1983-1989 Studied Applied Theatre Science in Gießen, under Heiner Müller, George Tabori and John Jesurun among others. From 1992 projects at Theater am Turm (TAT) in Frankfurt/Main under the then manager Tom Stromberg. In 1996 he received a working scholarship at the Royal Court Theatre London with seminars given by Harold Pinter and Caryl Churchill.

Since 1998 productions at municipal theatres in Berlin, Leipzig and Stuttgart. 1999/2000 in-house writer and director at Lucerne Theatre, then at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. His theatre soap project that he developed there, "World Wide Web-Slums 1-10" won the Mülheim Dramatists' Prize in 2001.

Since the 2001/2002 season Pollesch has been artistic director of the Prater at the Berliner Volksbühne (manager: Frank Castorf). In 2002 Pollesch was voted the best German dramatist in a critics' survey by "Theater heute". He produces in Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Vienna.

TR Warszawa in co-production with Goethe-Institut Warschau and Stiftung für Deutsch-Polnische Zusammenarbeit.