The Peasants
Władysław Reymont
director
Krzysztof Garbaczewski
premiere
13 May 2017
running time
190 min (1 przerwa)
stage
scena duża
UPCOMING SHOWS
not in repertoire

PHOTO GALLERY

VIDEO

CAST
KAROLINA ADAMCZYK
KAROLINA ADAMCZYK
Organiścina
GRZEGORZ ARTMAN
GRZEGORZ ARTMAN
Wójt
KLARA BIELAWKA
KLARA BIELAWKA
Józka
ARKADIUSZ BRYKALSKI
ARKADIUSZ BRYKALSKI
Boryna
MICHAŁ CZACHOR
MICHAŁ CZACHOR
Mateusz
GRZEGORZ FALKOWSKI
GRZEGORZ FALKOWSKI
Ksiądz
ANNA ILCZUK
ANNA ILCZUK
Jagustynka
MICHAŁ JARMICKI
MICHAŁ JARMICKI
Witek
ANDRZEJ  KŁAK
ANDRZEJ KŁAK
Jaś
MAGDALENA KOLEŚNIK
MAGDALENA KOLEŚNIK
Jagna
MATEUSZ ŁASOWSKI
MATEUSZ ŁASOWSKI
Antek
EWA SKIBIŃSKA
EWA SKIBIŃSKA
Dominikowa
PAWEŁ SMAGAŁA
PAWEŁ SMAGAŁA
guest
Roch
OSKAR STOCZYŃSKI
OSKAR STOCZYŃSKI
en:zastępstwo za B. Wysocką
Żyd
JULIAN ŚWIEŻEWSKI
JULIAN ŚWIEŻEWSKI
en:zastępstwo za P. Smagałę
Roch
BARBARA WYSOCKA
BARBARA WYSOCKA
Żyd
KAZIMIERZ WYSOTA
KAZIMIERZ WYSOTA
Kuba
JULIA WYSZYŃSKA
JULIA WYSZYŃSKA
Hanka

CREATIVES

adaptation, direction - Krzysztof Garbaczewski

set designers - Krzysztof Garbaczewski, Jan Strumiłło

costume designer - Sławomir Blaszewski
video - Robert  Mleczko
music - Jan Duszyński
lighting director - Bartosz Nalazek
director's assistant - Radosław Mirski
stage manager - Barbara Sadowska

SYNOPSIS

From the grand novel of Władysław Reymont, Krzysztof Garbaczewski picks out the issues related to the environment and emancipation, tracing the relationship between humans and the natural world, in his own way defining the need and meaning of work. In a multi-level production, he confronts the ideas of the writer with modern thought, creating a world of beings which are in part people, animals, and robots who seek a purpose for their existence. The world of Reymont’s Chłopi (The Peasants) shown by Garbaczewski is also an arena for performance arts depicting the drama of communities often functioning on the basis of violence towards women and relationships of exclusion.

 

The novel, which gave the author a Nobel Prize in 1924, illustrates the life of a fictional village of Lipce at the end of the 19th century. Usually read as an ethnographic record of the past, today it reveals anew its myth-making and creative power of language. The roots of Polish mentality, as described by historian Andrzej Leder, are in the provincial relation of “who holds the whip and whose back is whipped,” and goes on even further – into the depths of the human spirit, whose sense can be found in subordination to the eternal cycle of nature.

PARTNERS
Teatr Powszechny
im. Zygmunta Hübnera
ul. Jana Zamoyskiego 20
03-801 Warszawa
tickets 22 818 25 16
22 818 48 19