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Title: Trip to Buenos Aires
2 gold bats

25 08 07 - One of Fringe 2007's Polish productions, Trip to Buenos 
Aires by Teatr Jaracza, featured Gabriela Muskala in a monologue 
show. This was the one night the show was in Polish and even with 
rolling English subtitles projected adjacent to the action, the 
tragicomic aspects of the monologue were largely inaccessible on 
the basis of what was happening onstage anyway. The show was 
poorly attended and this underlined its pathos as it tended to
suggest that no one, not even the Polish community, really cared
about the story either. The whole experience was pretty heavy 
going as the narrative dealt with old lady Walerka attempting to
continue to function in the face of her increasingly 
incapacitating memory loss and dementia. Gabriela Muskala is a
young actress and I believe, was cast in the role to better
bridge the gap between younger audiences and the pathos of the
situation. Gabriela in white, struck a lonely figure onstage in 
the huge, darkened Freemasons Hall with only a very sparse
audience of twelve but to her credit persevered to the end. 

By John Vassallo