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Plays

Babicki, Mariusz

For years, a young architect, Michał, has been trying to curry favour with his right-wing boss by pretending to be someone he's not. He deceives him by ostentatiously showing his faith, political views, and the fact that he has a fiancée - when in fact he is gay. His elaborate scheming is driven by the ultimate goal of succeeding his boss or, in other words, having the company passed onto him from his childless superior.

Chotkowski, Łukasz

The play is created in a postmodernistic, “barbarian” aesthetic, referencing the controversial tendency of contemporary theater (postdrama). Artists of postdrama, a notion long established in the West and pioneered by figures such as Heiner Müller, Werner Schwab, Elfriede Jelinek, are referred to as “murderers of sanctity” or simply “barbarians”. It is a theater of risk, a game with the audience and oneself.

Burzyńska, Anna

This Italian town can only be under the control of one of them. Bruna Fabbri and Rita Conti, the titular black widows, are mob bosses. Neither dissolving corpses in acid nor putting bullets in inconvenient people's heads intimidates them - especially since they can count on the help of their (are they really loyal?) hitwomen. These circumstances are where Maruzzella, Bruna's daughter, and Paolo, Rita's son, grow up like delicate flowers and dream of escaping the world of mafia to live an ordinary middle-class life, and maybe a house with a garden...

Filipiak, Izabela

My Life as a Rabbit by Izabela Morska has a female cast and offers a farcical picture of a lesbian couple's "domestic bliss" whose only intruder is a TV set. The action is limited to their domestic sphere only, so any confrontation between the private/personal and the public/political is avoided, though still represented in a symbolic way. The characters, Z. and H., announce at the very beginning that they will make love only in their imagination because they are too exhausted for any physical contact.

Ślepowrońska, Dagna

A grotesque psychodrama featuring an Old Mother and her forty-year-old Daughter. Both women, who still live together, build up a toxic relationship, the Daughter devouring enormous amounts of food and the Mother persistently cleaning the floor. It is a strange game they play, bringing each other constant suffering and yet living in a strange symbiosis. The Mother is always on her daughter’s beck and call, always ready to go shopping for food.

Papis, Jacek

“The Friends of Mr Kant” is a sort of philosophical trip. Jacek Papis tries to reveal the last years of the life of Immanuel Kant, one of the greatest European thinkers, who developed cognitive study and set modern standards for it, stating that in a cognitive process there matters not only a subject and an object, but also forms. In the final scenes we witness the silent genius. He is in bed with a group of faithful friends around him. Papis succeeds in presenting how anonyms of pure reason described by Kant influenced his own life choices.

Wróblewski, Grzegorz

The author blows the myth about retirement as the time of quiet leisure activities. The case of Joanna and Gunnar shows how different obsessions – like analysing a painting or dreaming about a new pair of Italian high heels - become catalysts for life-lasting frustrations. In this intriguing, psychological play we witness Joanna and Gunnar trying to make their dreams come true. Wróblewski gives us a captivating, comic and tragic portrayal of a couple of elderly siblings.

Pałyga, Artur

A play about anti-Semitism that remains hidden in Polish society, but is nevertheless still alive. The thing takes place in a declining school in a smaller Polish town. The school is falling apart, it has debts, it is in danger of being closed down. One day the headmaster of the school receives an e-mail from the titular Jew, David Wassersztajn. The man asks for the return of an essay he wrote when he was a student of this school. The headmaster sees in this event a chance to get a big donation that will save the school.

Ślepowrońska, Dagna

A psychological drama 

Apart from Aniela, all the characters of the play remain seated in the auditorium until their time comes to go on the stage and perform their parts. 

Jurek, Paweł

A three-act comedy

This witty and twisted comedy explores the genre of a soap opera, mixes various kinds of “Dynasty”-like plots, and quotes TV series. It gives us insight into the lives of film producers.