The Doll. The best is yet to come
Bolesław Prus
premiere
15 May 2015
running time
2 Godz. 40 Min. (1 przerwa)
stage
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CAST
KAROLINA ADAMCZYK
KAROLINA ADAMCZYK
Julia Ochocka, Profesor Geist
ALEKSANDRA BOŻEK
ALEKSANDRA BOŻEK
Marianna
MARIA ROBASZKIEWICZ
MARIA ROBASZKIEWICZ
Prezesowa Zasławska
ANITA SOKOŁOWSKA
ANITA SOKOŁOWSKA
Izabela Łęcka
JOANNA HALSZKA SOKOŁOWSKA
JOANNA HALSZKA SOKOŁOWSKA
David Bowie
JULIA WYSZYŃSKA
JULIA WYSZYŃSKA
Kazimiera Wąsowska
JACEK BELER
JACEK BELER
Michał Szuman
MARCIN CZARNIK
MARCIN CZARNIK
Stanisław Wokulski
MICHAŁ JARMICKI
MICHAŁ JARMICKI
Ignacy Rzecki
DAMIAN  KWIATKOWSKI
DAMIAN KWIATKOWSKI
Węgiełek
PIOTR LIGIENZA
PIOTR LIGIENZA
Kazimierz Starski
MICHAŁ TOKAJ
MICHAŁ TOKAJ
Węgiełek

CREATIVES

director – Wojciech Faruga
writers – Wojciech Faruga, Paweł Sztarbowski

set and costume designer, lighting director – Agata Skwarczyńska
dramaturg – Paweł Sztarbowski

music – Joanna Halszka Sokołowska / from the band Der Father

director's assistant – Damian Kwiatkowski

stage manager – Ewa Kancler-Żeleńska

prompter – Barbara Sadowska

SYNOPSIS

Studies on The Doll by Bolesław Prus are so extensive that you could build a considerable library from them. Most works, however, feature similar topics: stories about people living in the times of great changes, collapse of the world or communities, “games of illusions and delusions, admiration, and disappointments”, “enthusiasm and indifference”, the times of escape from helplessness related to social roles, masks, conventions.


The Doll
is the world of decaying categories and illusions which obscure the reality. You could say that all protagonists have one thing in common: they feel this is not where they belong, which results in the imagination of utopian worlds and idealised versions of themselves. They all find it problematic to get accustomed the their environment, anticipating at the same time the arrival of a new, unknown order. They feel that the current world order in the world needs to be changed, but at the same time they lack a strong imperative that could introduce this change. Unfulfillment, sense of failure, disappointment – it turns out that while sticking to the 19th century realities and carefully reading the Doll, we will get very close to our modern dilemmas and questions.

“Human life. What a strange labyrinth” – says Wokulski at the end of the story. The creators of the play wanted to keep an eye on this labyrinth and refrain from bringing the complexity of the story and its protagonists to pre-assumed hypotheses and simplifications.

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