język polskijęzyk angielski

Let's Play or the Honeymoon

Genre
Comedy
Female cast
Male cast
Original language of the play
Original title
Wszystko gra

It happens in a hotel apartment by the sea. After twenty-five years of marriage, Irena and Jerzy are experiencing a huge crisis. To save their relationship, they come to the seaside town where they once spent their honeymoon. They want to once again feel like when they were really happy with each other, they want to return to their most beautiful memories. But everything is different than it used to be - the beach, the hotel suite, and most of all our heroes. The marriage therapy they have administered to themselves turns out to be a complete mistake - Irena and Jerzy are arguing with each other, they are malicious, they alternately stay and pack up to leave, everything annoys them. When a young, handsome waiter brings breakfast to their room, Irena seduces him, trying to provoke her husband. But for him, a healthy and generous breakfast is much more important. In the finale of the first act, after another argument, Irena, very upset, goes for a walk alone. Jerzy stays alone in the room, finishes his "holy" breakfast and falls asleep at the table.

At the beginning of the second act, Jerzy is suddenly awakened by a loud knock on the door. An attractive woman, who is by no means his wife, rushes into the room. She is a prostitute known as Bu, who claims to have been hired by a client from this very room. She offers Jerzy an erotic service in which she specializes - a virtual foreplay - to stage a scene that is supposed to fuel emotions and enhance the experience.  Jerzy protests - not only did he not call the prostitute into the room, but he also does not intend to play any games. Bu, however, believes that Jerzy's resistance is already part of the erotic game and the situation is beginning to get complicated. Jerzy is afraid of Irena's return, and when she starts knocking on the door, he orders Bu to hide in the closet. Bu follows the order, but of course Irena immediately looks into the closet, discovering an unfamiliar woman of dubious morals in it. The second part of the act is based on funny misunderstandings and mistakes. Ultimately, it is the prostitute's visit to Jerzy and Irena's apartment that becomes the best antidote to the marital crisis. The confrontation with quite peculiar views on feelings and sensory experiences causes our protagonists to find out what they really want and don't want.  Above all - that they were not as miserable with each other as they thought they were.