The Bordeland is a play about what has happened and what is going on right now on the Polish-Belarus borderland. The script was written based on the interviews with the residents and activists working near the border. While the politicians are deciding about the referendum and the huge wall
has been constructed on the Polish side of the border, the play raises a question about our place in this whole story. How should we act – us, the ordinary people, on whom sometimes the fate of the other human being depends?
Premiere: 08.07.2023, The Grotowski Institute, Wroclaw
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The script of the play was created based on a book by Frances Hudgson Burnett entitled The Secret Garden. The book tells a story about Mary, a young girl that loses both her home and her parents because of an epidemic. She moves to the house of her relatives, where she meets Colin – a boy that seems to be suffering from some serious illness. Together they discover the magic of the eponymous garden. In our adaptation, the garden is predominantly a place of a transformation. The plays main theme is the importance of leaving the closed world of sadness and isolation and living life to its full, cherishing the relationship with nature and other people.
Premiere: 04.03.2023, Hans Christian Andersen Theater, Lublin
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The monographic concert was an event closing my composition degree at the Wroclaw Academy of Music. The first three pieces formed a Farewell triptich, which was a musical description of an emotional journey through a complicated relationship. Each of the parts was describing the next stage of what I had been going through, making references to the emotions that I had felt back then.
The next piece, Variations through time, was an impression on passacaglia, a journey of a musical theme throughout different times and cultures. The last part of the programme was a screening of a short movie Fauve, re-scored by me, as a part of my Masters Thesis.
Date: 26.05.2022, Concert Hall of the Karol Lipinski Academy of Music, Wroclaw
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The script of The Golden was created based on the book The Fisherman and His Wife by the Grimm brothers. This seemingly easy tale about a fisherman and his greedy and unfulfilled wife takes up a very important topic which is the nature of happiness. The play tells a story about looking for
genuine happiness, living in line with nature and what your heart tells you. Additionally, the ecological theme has been added, addressing the problem of water pollution and its effects. It is also visible in the visual part of the play, as the puppets have been made using only recycled materials.
Premiere: 05.03.2022, Jan Dorman Theater, Będzin
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No Fiction is a play inspired by the true stories of what we used to do during lockdown in the pandemic times. It tells a story of three different neighbours that, suddenly locked inside, have to learn how to live in totally new conditions next to each other. Within their four walls they build up new worlds, full of peculiarities and extremes that had always been inside them and that now slowly start to come out and escalate with each day. The temperature rises, as the characters are influenced both by the noises and actions coming from the other flats and by the authorities that keep wandering around with their babbling announcements trying to control everything. As spectators, we
get to know those different worlds a little bit like through a keyhole – witnessing the absurd that we had been through because of the pandemic.
Premiere: 27.02.2021, Czasoprzestrzeń, Wroclaw
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The play was created to celebrate 425 years of the uninterrupted existence of the Gdansk Library. The script was written based on the book by Joanna Mueller entitled The Good Job Pirates, where the author makes references to some linguistic games present in Polish literature tradition in the books
of Brzechwa or Wawiłow. Joanna enjoys drawing from the language of a 21st century child that – like a lion cub traversing through game levels – deals with modern technology and the internet language full of hate. The main characters are Kacper and his emotionally distant mother that – together with the Good Job Pirates – embark on a journey full of adventures to find a treasure, that turns out to be the ability to be close with another person.
Premiere: 26.06.2021, Miniatura Theater, Gdansk
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The script was created based on the book by Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid, growing up in a marine kingdom ruled by her father. The eponymous mermaid is entering her rebellious teen stage and wants to experience all that is unknown and unfamiliar to her underwater world. On the day of her birthday, she breaks the main rule and swims to the surface. She is thrilled by the sun, by dance and she meets the Prince. Unfortunately, the world on the surface is far from being perfect and the people have forgotten how to live together with nature. The play also has a strong ecological theme – the surrealistic underwater scenography, on the one hand, enraptures with
its beauty, because of the direct inspiration taken from the underwater world. On the other hand, it also shows the scope of the pollution and destruction of the natural environment done by people.
Premiere: 27.09.2020, Puppet and Actor Theater, Lomza
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The script of the play was based on the drama by W. Shakespeare entitled Richard III. It is not a tale about a bloodthirsty tyrant that takes the throne with violence. On the contrary – he is just a master of taking advantage of the opportunities offered by a society focused only on its own benefits and
businesses. The text written by Shakespeare served as a pretext to create a universal metaphor of climbing the career ladder. Doesn’t matter whether it takes place in the English Kingdom, a God – forgotten theater or in a modern country – the mechanisms and the consequences remain the same.
Premiere: 19.05.2019, Theater Academy in Cracow, the Wroclaw Department
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The script of the play was based on the drama by R. Jarosz with the same title. His play, making reference to Finnish folk tales, tells a simple story about a Mother, Father and their Son. The parents wonder how to bring up and raise the conceived child. They come up with the idea of isolating him from the evil of the outside world. They decide to keep him in a barrel and expect him to be better than his Mother and Father. Unfortunately, the wisdom acquired in the barrel isn’t useful in the modern indifferent world, isolated from life-giving roots. The commentator of the events is an extraordinary character – both magical and real. It is a dog – a faithful and wise companion of man,
connected with nature and experiencing the effects of having been civilized. It is also a story about people that have lost the connection to all that is primeval, biological and natural and now they seem to be lost and lonely in the world that they had created.
Premiere: 19.06.2019, Theater Academy in Cracow, the Wroclaw Department
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Hercia is a universal tale about loneliness, losing someone dear to you, working on a relationship and being involved in helping the less fortunate. Two main characters, a mature man and a teenage girl, meet next to the grave of the eponymous Hercia. Their tales are based on authentic interviews, using
the verbatim method. The play was produced in the Grotowski Institute, as part of the Theater based on facts project , under the artistic supervision of Krzysztof Kopka.
Premiere: 15.02.2019, the Grotowski Institute, Wroclaw
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The script of the play was based on the book Pride and Prejudice by J. Austen. The play shows a vision of the world and emotions in the far/not so far away future. The Pride&Prejudice company organizes meetings between people and the android women that can be bought. The men choose the type of
woman that interests them. In the presented world, men and robots belong to one race. It poses the always valid question that keeps coming back, whether in the setting of 19th century England or the distant future – do social classes really vary so much? Do we experience love in different ways? Even
though the play takes place in a distant future where the ecosystem has been destroyed, the conventions concerning women still have not changed.
Premiere: 03.03.2018, Theater Academy in Cracow, the Wroclaw Department
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