Robert Dziekanski: Dziekanski

Zofia Cisowski Dept: Called I Will Fly Like a Bird: A Tribute to Robert Dziekanski , the work is a concert opera in five scenes. Its title comes from a line in a letter that Dziekanski had written to his mother, Zofia Cisowski, just before he left for Canada. I will fly like a bird tomorrow, he wrote. He had never been on an airplane before, according to Globe and Mail. The imagined figures of son and mother never connect onstage, just as the two did not on that day in Vancouver. Dziekanski s mother finally left the airport after being told that her son was not there this, while he was not far away, trapped in the back of the airport and becoming increasingly frustrated about his circumstances and and live he does, through Wainwright s opera, which he hopes will elevate him out of being fixed in that rather brutal reality. He deserved a lot more, the playwright says. The nearly hour-long opera features only two performers, portraying Robert and his mother. There are no props or costumes, nor do they act. Rather, the two stand at opposite ends of the stage and engage in a musical interaction that Wainwright describes as a kind of telepathic dialogue. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.