This Is Why We Live

Director Coleen Shirin MacPherson and her Open Heart Surgery Theatre, a Jacques Lecoq–inspired performance troupe based in Toronto, mix physical theater, clown work and original music (by cellist Dobrochna Zubek) to convey the poetry of the late Nobel Prize–winning Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska. The text is in English, French and Polish, with English translation provided.