Homework / Joanna Górska, Jerzy Skakun
Justice
director
Michał Zadara
premiere
10 March 2018
running time
80 min
stage
scena mała
UPCOMING SHOWS
not in repertoire

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VIDEO

CAST
ARKADIUSZ BRYKALSKI
ARKADIUSZ BRYKALSKI
WIKTOR LOGA-SKARCZEWSKI
WIKTOR LOGA-SKARCZEWSKI
guest
EWA SKIBIŃSKA
EWA SKIBIŃSKA
BARBARA WYSOCKA
BARBARA WYSOCKA

CREATIVES

directed by – Michał Zadara

script – Michał Zadara and Nawojka Gurczyńska

historians – Daniel Przastek, Paweł Mrowiński, Michał Kujawski

lawyers – Paweł Marcisz, Jakub Urbanik, Rafał Kozerski

costume designer – Arkadiusz Ślesiński

project coordinator – Anita Cieślicka

stage manager – Barbara Sadowska

SYNOPSIS

[previous working title: "Expulsion of Jews from Poland in 1968"]

 

Between 1968 and 1970, thirteen thousand Jews were forced to leave Poland. Polish society, culture, economics and politics were impoverished as a result, and the long term effects of this ethnic purge are still with us. The administrative basis was illegal: neither the laws that were in place then nor contemporary law allows discrimination based on ethnicity or religion. Still, to this day, not a single person has stood trial for this alleged crime.

 

Director Michał Zadara and a team of lawyers and historians examine the possibilities of holding people accountable for expelling Jews from Poland fifty years ago. The project’s aim is to notify the prosecutor’s office of a suspicion of committing a criminal offense by people who will be named on stage. The hope is that the state’s prosecutors will then investigate this case and decide whether there are grounds for an indictment against any of those people. 

 

The play called "Sprawiedliwość" ("Justice") is the theatrical explanation of this legal action. Michał Zadara examines to what extent it is possible to determine who was guilty of the expulsion. Can anyone still be accused of unlawful behavior fifty years later? "Sprawiedliwość" is a play about a country where a crime took place and nobody was punished. Just like in Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex".

 

 

Interview with Michał Zadara: www.powszechny/interviews

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