język polskijęzyk angielski

It’s coming…

Genre
Drama
Female cast
Male cast
Original language of the play
Cast details
It’s possible to combine certain roles
Original title
Nadchodzi…

Eve's terminal illness becomes an excuse to escape from her otherwise bland life: badly paid work, a cramped flat, an apodictic mother, a crook of a brother and a burnt-out relationship. When the main character finds out that she has little time left, she leaves her husband, has an affair with her boss and her closest friend's husband, travels, wanders around clubs, tries drugs, spends all her savings and borrows money. Unfortunately, what she has always dreamed of does not satisfy her at all, and yet she has sacrificed so much to get it. Instead of indulging in pleasures, she starts to punish herself and wants to die.

Eve burnt all her bridges: she left her family, her friend and her job. After an unexpected recovery, she has to face reality: hurt relatives, pregnancy from the affair, lack of means to live. With nowhere to go, Eve is beginning to attend meetings of a ufologist sect that announces that the end of the world is near and it shall come with the arrival of aliens on Earth. Although she is sceptical about the idea of the approaching apocalypse, she participates in the sect's subsequent initiations.

It’s coming is an excellent psychological drama with brilliant dialogues and well defined characters. The play explores the issue of being aware of our choices: are we able to live our own lives or are we a result of the expectations and failures of others? And finally: will the answer to this question really change anything in our current existence?