The Coming Spring
based on Stefan Żeromski's novel
director
Paweł Łysak
premiere
24 February 2023
running time
2,5 h (w tym przerwa 15 min)
stage
scena duża
UPCOMING SHOWS
not in repertoire

PHOTO GALLERY

CAST
GRZEGORZ ARTMAN
GRZEGORZ ARTMAN
Ksiądz Anastazy, Lulek
KLARA BIELAWKA
KLARA BIELAWKA
Jadwiga Barykowa, Wanda Okrzyńska
ALEKSANDRA BOŻEK
ALEKSANDRA BOŻEK
Laura Kościeniecka
ARKADIUSZ BRYKALSKI
ARKADIUSZ BRYKALSKI
Seweryn Baryka, Hipolit Wielosławski, Szymon Gajowiec
MAGDALENA  CELMER
MAGDALENA CELMER
guest
ormiańska dziewczyna, Karolina Szarłatowiczówna
MICHAŁ CZACHOR
MICHAŁ CZACHOR
Cezary Baryka
MICHAŁ JARMICKI
MICHAŁ JARMICKI
Maciejunio
ZUZANNA KARCZ
ZUZANNA KARCZ
guest
aktywistka
SEBASTIAN  SŁOWIŃSKI
SEBASTIAN SŁOWIŃSKI
guest
aktywista

CREATIVES

director – Paweł Łysak

script and dramaturgy – Paweł Sztarbowski

set design – Robert Rumas

set design and costumes collaboration – Anna Macugowska

dramaturgy collaboration – Sebastian Słowiński

music – Dominik Strycharski

video – Karol Rakowski

stage manager – Bazhena Shamovich

activists – Zuzanna Karcz, Sebastian Słowiński, Janina Świerżewska

consultation about dance scene – Danil Vitkovski

 

cast – Grzegorz Artman, Klara Bielawka, Aleksandra Bożek, Arkadiusz Brykalski, Magdalena Celmer (guest), Michał Czachor, Michał Jarmicki, Zuzanna Karcz (guest), Sebastian Słowiński (guest)

SYNOPSIS

The publication of “The Spring to Come” in 1924 caused a storm of various comments. The writer was accused of promoting Bolshevism and pornography. This book became a reference point for many generations in the following decades, as it kept coming back in many discussions, especially after 1989 when the dream of a new “The Spring to Come” kept recurring.

 

We are coming back to this classic Polish novel after almost one hundred years, in order to look into the questions posed by Żeromski – regarding social justice, civil Poland, and most importantly, about the dreams of a new, better reality. We are doing this knowing that Cezary Baryka’s tumultuous adventures cannot represent the lives and challenges of modern activists, however, they can become an introduction to a discussion regarding the still ongoing cracks in Polish society, the war between Poland and Poland, and the huge disappointment with the state of our current reality on which right-wing populism thrives.

 

We are offering the audience a kind of a new, critical adaptation, to which we invited not only actors but also young activists and intellectuals.

  

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Warning: the performance uses videos with a stroboscope effect and stage smoke.

 

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