Emptiness. Desert. Nothing

Give Gombrowicz a blow! Make a pantomime of Gombrowicz!

Take away his words and leave only bodies, bodies entangled in other bodies! Put the man in front of the man. In a void. Let it writhe in front of the latter, let it become the latter involuntarily, let it change under the weight of another person, let it get lost in the second, third, fourth person!
Saturate the viewer with passions and abstractions, chaos and calculations. Let him watch these ... those Golgoths!
This Performance is a manifestation of pride. It is a scandal and a profanation. Monday - Gombrowicz, Tuesday - Gombrowicz, Wednesday - Gombrowicz, Thursday - We. Gombrowicz entered us. We found ourselves in Gombrowicz. We will get into you in a moment. And no one will know who he is in this wandering in the Desert.
If Marian ... if Witold ... if this Gombrowicz persuaded, at the end of his way of marking the world with oneself, that he wanted to write something that escapes literary categories, that would be neither a novel nor a drama, and which would be based on the relationship of only two characters: Man and Suffering Flies, did he not level himself, or reduce himself to the role of an observer ... to the role of an observer of a plot without a story ... did he not himself determine the direction for this liberating "Nothing"?
Pantomime. "Emptiness. Desert. Nothing. "And an imaginary of human movements!
We invite you. Have fun!
Leszek Bzdyl

“Bzdyl is one of the most intelligent and original Polish choreographers. Nobody else could possibly translate Gombrowicz's texts into movement with equal grace and humor. The performance of Bzdyl is a series of a dozen or so etudes for four pantomimes, one actor and ... the audience. (...) Mikołaj Trzaska created an intriguing and surprisingly rich soundscape. Maciej Chojnacki's simple and laboratory-like scenery perfectly inspires performers to introspect at Gombrowicz. (...) Trzaska is today one of the leading composers of theater music in Poland. His Gombrowicz variations for sounds and silence are as successful and convincing as Bzdyl's variations on pantomimes and an actor ".
Mirosław Kocur, Teatralny.pl, March 14, 2016

“An unusual pantomime inspired by the works of Witold Gombrowicz amazes with its unconventionality. The performance is full of surprises, interesting solutions and mesmerizing expressiveness (...) ".
Maja Kleszcz, Treasures of Culture, March 11, 2016

“The task was risky: to strip the master-mocker of his weapon of words, and to replace it with only a silent gesture. The very assumption seems so ironic that Gombrowicz himself could be amused by such treatment of his work.
(...) The performance by Leszek Bzdyl is one of those rare, well-constructed works of pantomime theater, in which meanings are created not only by means of a gesture, but also include all the elements of the stage work: set design, lighting and music. (...) The creators closed in gesture and space what Gombrowicz - their inspirer - closed in words: the simultaneously imagined and material space "in between".
(...) Emptiness. Desert. Thread. on the one hand, it is a game with Gombrowicz's work, themes, movement and audience, on the other hand, it provides the participant with a large emotional charge and a multitude of interpretations and reflections. A wonderfully high level of pantomime theater.
Zuzanna Zajt, Internet Magazine "Teatralia", No. 166/2016

“After 30 years, Leszek Bzdyl returned to the Wrocław Mime Theater. And, breaking the convention, he directed the premiere - a delightful gem. There is little content here, although - what is unusual in the pantomime - there are words and singing. The form of the performance Pustka. Desert. Nothing is remarkable. No wonder, after all, it was inspired by Witold Gombrowicz, a fascinated person, and above all, inspired by his Journals.
(...) The title void was filled with the highest level of form. (...) Way to go!"
Małgorzata Matuszewska, "Gazeta Wrocławska", March 9, 2016