język polskijęzyk angielski

Porno generation

Author
Genre
Drama
Original language of the play
Characters
Johnny, Agnes, Kaśka, Bartek
Original title
Pokolenie porno

An extremely brave tragic comedy about losing moral standards and values. Highly praised at the Polish Competition of Comedies in Tarnów - TALIA 2001. The play is a kind of mockery on the world of TV commercials, soap operas and empty slogans of total freedom behind which another product is advertised. This is the world of consumerism, free in a sense that it is deprived of any standards of behaviour. Agnes is a commercial journalist, very successive in the world of the media; she is also well known as the organizer of porn parties. She lives in a luxurious apartment with Johnny, also a media star. Having earned good money, Johnny is bored stiff. He wants to do something serious - to become a playwright. They make friends with Kaśka and Bartek. Kaśka is in love mostly with herself. She also loves sex in any possible form. She has a habit of getting pregnant (“I feel more pretty then!”) followed by abortions. Lee (a saleswoman), the least polluted person in Kaśka’s circle is her friend and lover. Bartek (Johnny’s friend and lover) is a theatre director; he is going to commercialise theatre business, to make it TV like with all varieties of reality shows and TV novels. Johnny believes Bartek might be helpful in presenting Johnny’s play in his theatre. Both couples confront an important question: to be or to have. Finally it occurs to them that both expressions have the same connotation. “To be” for most of them means to be in the media, to be visible, to be successful. Otherwise, they don’t exist. 

Johnny discovers that one thing is impossible for him: beginning his existence as a true artist. Thus, he decides to move away from the society. His first step to get back to real life is killing Bartek and Kaśka. He does it dressed up as Lee. Then finally he can throw the mask away.