“The Mystery of Saint Kinga” is  a play pepared by the Storia Theatre, created by the Ada Sari Cultural Centre in Stary Sącz and the Nomina Rosae Foundation. It will premiere on 15th MArch 2015 in Stary Sącz. The next step we will take in commemorating the Saint will be production of the first feature film about Kinga.

THEATRE PLAY AND MOVIE
The premiere of “The Mystery of Saint Kinga” play will take place on March 15, 2015 at the Storia Theatre, that is a joint initiative of the Nomina Rosae Foundation and the Ada Sari Culture and Arts Centre in Stary Sącz. The screenplay is being created based on the spectacle prepared and staged by Nomina Rosae Theatre in the courtyard of the Poor Clare sisters monastery as a part of jubilee Early Music Festival in Stary Sącz in 2012.  This time the play will be staged on the stage of Sokół of Stary Sącz. After the premiere we are planning to produce a movie based on the play, therefore creating the first in the history of Polish cinematography feature-length movie about the life of st. Kinga and her way towards sanctity. The play and movie will not only present the strong character of the saint, but also her inestimable contribution into the development of the region. The story will be told in a poetic way, employing colourful costumes, visionary stage design and state-of-the-art elements like multimedia projections. Artistic features of the spectacle, medieval music and exceptional compositions using Mongolian throat-singing as well as atmospheric lighting will invoke the unusual, at times even sacral, atmosphere of the Middle Ages. The movie will be shot in the locations of Sądecczyzna region rich with beautiful landscapes.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
“The Mystery of Saint Kinga” play will premiere on March 15, 2015 and will be staged two or more times. The movie shooting is planned to take place in the half of the current year and its postproduction – that is montage and sounding – in the year’s second half. Storia Theatre’s actors ensemble consists of graduates of public and private acting schools and members of the filming crew are graduates of the National Film School in Łódź. The movie will be complete at the end of 2015. After an official premiere we plan to distribute it in cinemas in all of Poland and also at movie festivals abroad.
We are also planning TV broadcasting and eventually a DVD release available for purchase in the country and abroad.

PRODUCER & CREATORS

PLAY AND MOVIE PRODUCTION Ada Sari Culture and Arts Centre in Stary Sącz, Nomina Rosae Foundation, Storia Theatre

SCREENPLAY
Barbara Szewczyk – movie director
Maria Molenda – movie producer and Foundation’s head

DIRECTED BY
Maria Molenda, Ph.D. – graduate of historical studies at the Jagiellonian University, also studied at Orléans Univeristy in France within the Socrates-Erasmus programme, director of more than ten historical plays and open-air spectacles realized as the Nomina Rosae Theatre productions, including the “Ipsa felix ancilla Christi” miracle play about st. Kinga in 2012.

Barbara Szewczyk – graduate of National Film School in Łódź as well as of the New York Film Academy. Author of more than a dozen short features and animated movies, as well as of “The Shtetl of Tsanz” short documentary produced by the Nomina Rosae Foundation in 2014.

Starring: Justyna Stasik, Karolina Lisik, Jakub Sokołowski, Wojciech Michno, Aneta Gierat and others.

Music: Michał Esz, stage design: Filip Przybyłko, costumes: Maria Molenda

Ladies and gentlemen! Preparation of the play and movie requires considerable financing, which we in part were already able to acquire. We’d like to invite you to support this undertaking. Join our endeavor and help us create the story of Saint Kinga – patron saint of Sądecczyzna, protector of the Church and the poor.

Support the play and the movie! Benefactors can donate to the following bank account (ING Bank Śląski): PL39 1050 1722 1000 0022 8058 2343 with a word “Kinga” in the title.

You can also see the blog at http://swietakinga.blogspot.com where we will talk about the play and movie.