Responsibility
director
Michał Zadara
premiere
26 June 2022
running time
95 min
stage
scena mała
UPCOMING SHOWS
Sat 25 May
hour 19.30
Sun 26 May
hour 19.30

PHOTO GALLERY

CAST
PIOTR GŁOWACKI
PIOTR GŁOWACKI
GUEST
MATEUSZ JANICKI
MATEUSZ JANICKI
en:GOŚCINNIE (pokazy 5 i 6.12.2023 r.)
MAJA OSTASZEWSKA
MAJA OSTASZEWSKA
GUEST
BARBARA WYSOCKA
BARBARA WYSOCKA

CREATIVES

directed by – Michał Zadara

script – Michał Zadara, Małgorzata Andruszkiewicz, Agata Andrzejewska, Zofia Królak, Milena Kuchnia, Aleksandra Łukomska, Aleksandra Majewska, Filip Płuciennik, Barbara Rojek, Julia Rygielska, Maja Sanak, Hanna Stacewicz, Michał Stańczak, Gabriela Tokarska, Katarzyna Trzeciak
in cooperation with representatives of academics' lawyers' and theatre communities

legal analysis – Jacek Dubois, Marta Górczyńska, Rafał Kozerski, Maciej Nowicki, Mikołaj Pietrzak

photos – Karol Grygoruk

director's assistant Maksymilian Nowak

 

cast – Piotr Głowacki, Mateusz Janicki, Maja Ostaszewska, Barbara Wysocka

SYNOPSIS

On the stage, three actors are telling stories similar to the ones we have always told at the theater. Stories of justice, one right fighting with the other one, war, power, heroism and death. However, this time the actors do not transform into fictitious characters and they don’t talk about Denmark or Athens. They talk about what is happening right now, what is happening in our country this year.

 

“Responsibility” is a story of the refugee crisis happening at the Belarusian border. Many of us, citizens, know the facts about death, hunger, violence and helplessness, but we cannot piece them together into a coherent story. When someone asks, why the state was able to take in 2.5 million refugees from the Ukrainian border, but not the few thousand from the Belarusian border, we are unable to answer.

“Responsibility” tells the story of one of the victims – Issa Jerjos fleeing war-torn Syria, looking for a better future in Europe. He expected what Syria could not guarantee: peace, rightfulness and respecting human rights, the possibility of work and sorting his life out. What he found in Poland was an extremely militarized emergency zone where armed soldiers search the forest for defenseless people and force them to cross the border with Belarus again without asking any questions. Issa Jerjos died on the Polish side of the border, in the state of emergency zone. He was hiding from the officers of the state whose constitution says that respect for the inherent dignity of man, his right to freedom and the duty of solidarity with others has as its unshakable foundation.


“Responsibility” tells the story of how the state of emergency zone was created, who keeps it going, and which laws could have been violated, and whether anyone will be able to be judged in a court of law for these violations.

 

In Polish, the name Issa means Jesus. “Responsibility” tells the story of Issa/Jesus’ passion, the story of the last days before his death, and it poses the question of responsibility of the politicians – those who make the decisions and those who wash their hands of the matter. 

 
“Responsibility” tells the story of what happened in Poland this year.

  

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The show is a co-production of CENTRALA and Powszechny Theater in Warsaw; it was created in cooperation with the Salam.Lab Foundation and female and male lawyers of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.


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