“What have we fucked up?” is a question returning repeatedly in the new play of the great director. Krystian Lupa asks it to the New Age generation believing the flower power ideals of boundless freedom, and then getting lost in little weather-vane charades but also to himself and his likes, some of whom “sit in the parliament”. Coming for the wake feast while the dying guru Antonin (Grzegorz Artman and Andrzej Kłak) is still alive are Patti Smith (Marta Zięba), Janis Joplin (Karolina Adamczyk), and Susan Sontag (Anna Ilczuk). The key moment in the spectacle is the resurrection of Lenin – Jesus (Michał Lacheta). The second part is taken up by the visions of the future and attempts at diagnosing the condition of humanity now, with the war on Ukraine and bestiality of the Eastern dictator coming to the fore. Displays of acting and scenes of purely human freedom combined with the famous performance of The Beatles’ Don’t Let Me Down on the roof of Apple Corps at the last concert in their career. Lupa’s new production stimulates disputes and proves that no artist of the Polish theatre has such a broad view of the whole as Lupa.

The performance was produced as part of the project “Prospero. Extended Theater”, thanks to the support of the “Creative Europe” program of the European Union.