SPARTACUS. LOVE IN THE TIME OF PLAGUE
fot. Piotr Nykowski
SPARTACUS. LOVE IN THE TIME OF PLAGUE
Director:
Jakub Skrzywanek
Text author:
Weronika Murek i Jakub Skrzywanek
Duration:
120'

One of the key productions of the season, inspired by the hype-winning reports of Janusz Schwertner, a journalist working for onet.pl, who examined the system of child psychiatric care in Poland and attempted to answer the question why the rate of suicides in our country is so high among the young. A year after the moving Śmierć Jana Pawła II / Death of Pope John Paul II, the director of the play, Jakub Skrzywanek, the current artistic director of the Współczesny Theatre in Szczecin, returns to the Boska Komedia / Divine Comedy Festival. This time, to examine the often-overlooked subject of the functioning of the state welfare system, but he beckons each and every one of us to find answers. Spartacus makes us look in the mirror and ask ourselves how we take care of our loved ones and all those in need of our help. The production was created in collaboration with various communities, including the Country Women’s Association from Stobno, the LGBTQ+ organisation Lambda Szczecin, and artists gathered around the Współczesny Theatre and the Academy of Arts in Szczecin. The culmination of this frenetic images loaded spectacle continuing in Kraków its triumphant tour of Poland, is the wedding of always a different non-heteronormative couple staged in the play. Thanks to Spartacus, dozens of such couples have symbolically joined in matrimony.

→ after the performance, a meeting with the creators is led by: Magdalena Piekarska


Fot. Piotr Nykowski

Section Biała strzałka w prawo
Purgatorio
Weronika Murek
dramatist
Daniel Rycharski
scenography
Natalia Mleczak
costumes
Karol Nepelski
music
Agnieszka Kryst
choreography
Aleksandr Prowaliński
lights director
Krzysztof Kuźnicki i Jakub Skrzywanek
video
Adam Kuzycz-Berezowski
assistant director
Oktawia Pączkowska
assistant composer
Anna Pawicka
stage manager
dr Maja Herman
consultant in child psychiatry
Danuta Sowińska
consultant in suicidology
Rozalia Jaz, Wojciech Maciantowicz
consultants in Emergency Medical Service
Cast:
Maria Dąbrowska, Adrianna Janowska-Moniuszko, Anna Januszewska, Krystyna Maksymowicz, Ewa Sobczak, Helena Urbańska, Beata Zygarlicka
Arkadiusz Buszko, Robert Gondek, Adam Kuzycz-Berezowski, Michał Lewandowski, Maciej Litkowski, Wiesław Orłowski, Przemysław Walich
Piotr Wicenciak / Maria Kanarek
voilins
Irys Barda, Emilia Donart, Łukasz Lanica, Madzia Marciniak, Kody Pyrozhenko, Nora Rodziewicz, Rita Skalskx, Laura Tabaka, Monika Tichy, Andrzej Witczak, Gerard Wojakowski, Fryderyk Zambor
Lambda Szczecin Association regarding the representation of LGBTQ+ people
Barbara Dąbrowska, Urszula Jankowska, Alina Jasiorska, M. Kemplia, J. Kołcz, Grażyna Łatka, Teresa Matyja, Magdalena Nowotniak, Grzegorz Nowotniak, Krystyna Oczoś, Halina Partyka, B. Piotrowska, Jolanta Resiak, Jan Śnieg, M. Winiarczyk, Halina Żyjewska
Country Women’s Association from Stobno village
Inez Dapszus, Anastazja Stańczyk, Dorota Szynkaruk, Alicja Woland
Female students of the Academy of Arts in Szczecin